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Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 6pm
Young Composers Festival: Sugar Vendil
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
FREE with RSVP: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/young-composers-festival-central-library-dweck-20211211-0

Featuring music by Sugar Vendil, Pamela Z, Melinda Faylor, and Darius Jones
Costumes for The Nouveau Classical Project by Jasmine Chong 

In collaboration with the ETHEL Foundation, BPL presents the young composers from the fourth round of ETHEL’s Homebaked competition. 

Vendil will premiere her new work “ooh wo ah oo wa o” with her ensemble, The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) and a new solo work, “Sugar” composed for Vendil by Pamela Z. NCP will wear costumes created for “ooh wo ah oo wa o” by Jasmine Chong. Chong weaves rich and personal stories through a canvas of colour, silhouette, texture and form, producing pieces that are sculptural, romantic and meaningful. She was featured on Season 1 of Amazon’s “Making the Cut.”

Melinda Faylor will premiere pieces for piano with electronics from her forthcoming album and Darius Jones will play a new duo with Amirtha Kidambi.

About Vendil’s “ooh wo ah oo wa o” - LISTEN TO 30-SECOND EXCERPTS
“ooh wo ah oo wa o” reflects on the painful but necessary act of surrender through fluttering textures, glitches, and vocalizations. It was composed as Vendil decided to wind down NCP, the ensemble she founded in 2008, followed by having to make the heartbreaking decision to put her dear cat Coco to sleep. The work is dedicated to Coco.

It is scored for a vocalizing ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. “ooh wo ah oo wa o” has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

About Pamela Z’s “Sugar”
“Sugar” is a work for piano and fixed media composed of sampled tableware and text recorded in the composer’s voice. It meditates on the concept of sugar, the namesake of the artist for whom the work was written.