flyt(t)ende
Premiered October 2023
The performance title flyt(t)ende—a weaving together of the Norwegian terms flytte (moving) and flytende (fluently)—was conceptualized around the experience of rootlessness and change that follows leaving one's home.
Theresa Coffey: Prelude (sound installation)
T. Coffey: Improvisation after "Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
T. Coffey: Interlude with movement
Alice Humphries: Come Out Closer
Olga Neuwirth: Addio…sognando
T. Coffey: Postlude after "You Are My Sunshine"
Collaborators: Jakob Florea Nøstvik (trombone); Rebecca Coffey (recorded vocal); Anders Svinndal and Mike McCormick (sound technicians); Gunnvà Meinseth (light technician); Maja Hannisdal (videographer); Sigurd Ytre-Arne (video post-production); Solveig Skår (producer)
Past Projects.
Surge
Ensemble.
April 2017
Surge Ensemble was imagined as a genre-ambiguous ensemble whose performances would feel more like casual social gatherings than stiff classical concerts.
Odd Couples.
May 2017
G. Tartini, Concerto in D Major
G. F. Handel, Eternal Source of Light Divine
A. Melani, Quai bellici accenti ascolti, mio core?
J. Stephenson, Vignettes for trumpet and percussion
D. Sampson, Breakaway for two trumpets and tape
In Paris.
April 2015
H. Tomasi, Concerto
A. Piazzolla (arr. V. Popelka), Oblivion
M. Ravel, Vocalise en forme de habanera
G. Enesco, Legende
A. Hovhannes, Prayer of St. Gregory
A. Piazzolla (arr. T. Coffey), Libertango