COMPOSERS IN PLAY: Plastic Dawn

On Sunday, May 5th, 2024 at 3:00 pm, the richly lyrical, super-talent of an oboist, Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, takes the Arts & Letters Club stage in a Neo-romantic programme featuring expressive new works for oboe and piano. The highlights of this recital include a fresh commission from award-winning Canadian composer, Harry Stafylakis and a new set of five pieces, “Plastic Dawn,” by Adam Sherkin. Also on the program: Kevin Lau’s “In the Garden of Endless Sleep” and a dynamic work from 2012 by veteran composer, Alexina Louie, “Filigree,” originally written and commissioned for club member John Stanley and his partner.

PROGRAMME:

LOUIE: Filagree for oboe and piano (2012)

STAFYLAKIS: The Tender Scars of Memory (2023)

SHERKIN: Plastic Dawn * for oboe and piano (2024)

SHERKIN: Two Aubades, Op. 24a for solo piano (2016)

LAU: In the Garden of Endless Sleep for oboe and piano (2020)

SHAPIRO: Brat (2013)

* Canadian premiere