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Temkin’s piece captures the immensity of the Pacific Ocean and Big Sur, the rugged stretch of coastline California...

 
 

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Violinist Francisco Fullana and conductor Ryan McAdams rehearse the end of “I. White Heat” from Maksimal live in Houston, TX on June 1, 2022.

Violist Ayane Kozasa performs Unspoken live at Oktaven Studios on May 21, 2021 in New York, NY.

 

Qing Jiang performs “III. Echoes of the Horizon” from Dreamed Landscapes live at the “Weis Center Sessions” in July 2020 at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburg, PA.

Rising Moon (excerpt)
Hong Kong Philharmonic; Bright Sheng, conductor Hong Kong Cultural Centre, April 21, 2016

 
 

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Maksimal (2015-19)
for solo violin and sinfonietta

Written with support from the Willapa Bay Artist Residency Program. Dedicated to Don Crockett.

Performed by Francisco Fullana, violin; Ryan McAdams, conductor; Kinetic Ensemble.

Together, We (2017)
for flute and harp

Written for the Exponential Ensemble In homage to Langston Hughes.

Performed by Ashley Jackson, harp, and Emi Ferguson, flute at Oktaven Studios.

Dreamed Landscapes (2017)
for solo piano
I. Starfield
II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling
III. Echoes of the Horizon

Commissioned by MTNA & PMTA
Performed by Qing Jiang at Rooke Hall

Ocean’s Call (2016; rev. 2021)
I. Hanging Cliffs, Rising Mist
II. The Bitter Salt of the Sea
III. Lullaby Waves

Commissioned by Chamber Music by the Bay
Performed by Aizuri Quartet at Oktaven Studios

 

Time Capsule (2018)
for two violins

Commissioned by Astral Artists for Nikki & Timmy Chooi.

Performed by Francisco Fullana and Alexi Kenney at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Mar 2022.

Blossoming
for Saxophone Quartet

Written for PRISM Quartet.

PRISM Quartet, Field Hall, Philadelphia, May 2012

Flow (2018) - I. Wash Over Me, Wash Me Over
for piano, violin, and cello

Commissioned by Sookkyung Cho & the Robert B. Annis Water Research Institute.

Performed by Qing Jiang, pno, Ariana Kim, vln, and Christine Lamprea, vlc in Rooke Hall; Oct 2019.

Intricate Machines (2016; rev. 2018)
I. Heavy metal viola
II. Bump in the night
III. Churning gears
IV. Constellations
V. Interstellar Hoe-Down

Commissioned by Saarbrucker Sommermusik for the Tsanevski Quartet.

Performed by the Aizuri Quartet at the Weis Center for Performing Arts, April 2019.