MALAYSIAN COMPOSERS: Valerie Ross
Works for Western Instruments
Arioso for String Orchestra | String Quartet I & II | Pyramid | Gates of Transcendence for chamber orchestra
| Snake Charmer for solo oboe | Mysteries of the Orient for solo piano
| Contour for solo french horn | Ingatan for chamber ensemble | Wayang Kulit for oboe quintet
| Point of Exit
Multimedia Works
Fatamorgana for Dance Theatre | Web I &
II | Aku, computer composition for Dance Theatre | Crisscross, music for Dance Theatre
| Bumi, Dance music | Manu, Dance music | Colours of Water, Dance music
| Nadis-Chakra, multimedia art exhibition | Womb Door | Embattled Garden for Music Theatre
Works for Eastern & Western Instruments
Karma | Manu | Tatagatha | In Motion | Song of Innocence | Serbolline
| Embattled Garden | Laras
International Festivals of New Music
Chamber, orchestral & dance-theatre works premiered at Tokyo, Seoul,
Manila, Taipeh, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Darmstadt, Munich,
Essen, London, Stockholm, Bern, Vienna, Bucharest, Warsaw, Mexico, Pittsburgh
String Quartet II, ISCM-World Music Days, Stockholm 1994
| Point of Exit, WMD-Essen, Germany 1995 | Portrait Concert performed by Ensemble 20 Jahrhundert, Vienna
1995
Commissions
Embattled Garden (Opera), Japan Foundation 1992
| Tathagatha (ensemble piece for a combination of Eastern &
Western instruments), Commonwealth Foundation 1992, premiered at the Gala
Concert of the 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth as Head of Commonwealth
Awards
- Malaysian Young Composer (1988) - Asian Composers' League, Hong
Kong
- Compositional Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to create a
work utilizing music resources from Asia, Europe and Africa. The work,
Serbelloni, was premiered in 1995 in collaboration with the University
of Pittsburgh
Composer Residencies
- US-China Arts Exchange, Saporo
- Internationales Institute Ferienkurse fur Neve Musik, Darmstadt
- Centre for New Intercultural Music Arts, London
- Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, Italy
Education
- Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama
- University of London
- Deakin University
WEB I & II
This work, composed for the medium of electronically generated sound
with the use also of the Indian flute and certain instruments from the
gamelan orchestra, portrays the composer's impression of prints, paintings
and sculptures to be exhibited at the Risalah dari Malaysia exhibitions
to be held in Germany in 1997.
It is an approximately half hour long composition, perhaps better described
as a "musical sculpture" itself with various sounds and moods
fading in and out as other themes and ideas take over. Some of the main
themes may be heard below (downloadable
Real
Audio 3.0 format).
AUDIO EXAMPLES
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Clip 1
(105 KB) - voices
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Clip 2
(161 KB) - space sound
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Clip 3
(134 KB) - gamelan
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Clip 4
(160 KB) - more gamelan
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Clip 5
(99 KB) - flute in the jungle
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Clip 6
(96 KB) - more jungle sounds
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Clip 7
(69 KB) - flute in the jungle II
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