FLUX: Toh Yan Ee
Onyx Brass
Alan Thomas · trumpet
James Fountain · trumpet
Andrew Sutton · horn
Amos Miller · trombone
David Gordon-Shute · tuba
Music of Our Time (JAM's opening season concert)
20 March 2024, 7:30pm
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London
www.jamconcert.org
flux /fl ks/
n.
constant change and movement;
irregularity, unpredictability, instability;
a flowing mass.
n. the rate of transfer of fluid, particles, or energy through a surface or substance (Physics).
n. a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action.
flux /fl ks/
v.
to melt, liquify;
to amalgamate.
v. to make or become fluid.
Toh Yan Ee is a Singaporean composer whose music fuses elements of spontaneity and organicity. Yan Ee’s music deals with dichotomies within nature - both the phenomena of our physical world, as well as the nature of things. Her works explore gestures through the amalgamation and morphing of timbres and harmonies.
Yan Ee has worked with TACET(i) Ensemble, b-l duo, Orkest de Ereprijs, Salastina, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Quartetto Maurice, ensemble chromoson, Ensemble Kochi, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and NOISE Ensemble, amongst others. Her music has been performed in eight countries across Europe, Asia and America. Yan Ee was awarded Winner of the Boston New Music Initiative Young Composer Competition, Concertia Emerging Composers Fellowship, Runner-Up Prizes at the Black Bayou Composition Award and International Composition Institute of Thailand, Special Mention at AMAT Women Composers Competition, and Diploma at the New Music Generation International Composer Competition.
A graduate of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Ho Chee Kong and Adeline Wong, Yan Ee is currently pursuing a Master of Music at the Royal Academy of Music (London), studying with David Sawer. Upcoming projects include a new work for Riot Ensemble, and a short chamber opera in collaboration with writer Noah McCreadie.
www.tohyanee.com
Film by Gareth Kay
www.garethkay.co