VELVET TEARS (2025)

Created in collaboration with Alessandra Gonzalez, choreographer

Instrumentation: clarinet in Bb, violin, cello, piano, and dancers

Duration: ~9 minutes

Performance/Recording History:

  • Premiered by Janis Bady, Antonia Gonzalez, Lathan Goodrum, Sara Guo, and Logan Rivera, dancers, Kingsley Hsieh, clarinet, Pierce Wang, violin, Noa Mogle, cello, and Shiqin Wang, piano, on November 21, 2025 at the Choreographers & Composers 2025 event in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater at The Juilliard School in New York City, NY.

  • Performed by Janis Bady, Antonia Gonzalez, Lathan Goodrum, Sara Guo, and Logan Rivera, dancers, Kingsley Hsieh, clarinet, Pierce Wang, violin, Noa Mogle, cello, and Shiqin Wang, piano, on November 21, 2025 at the Choreographers & Composers 2025 event in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater at The Juilliard School in New York City, NY.

  • Performed by Janis Bady, Antonia Gonzalez, Lathan Goodrum, Sara Guo, and Logan Rivera, dancers, Kingsley Hsieh, clarinet, Pierce Wang, violin, Noa Mogle, cello, and Shiqin Wang, piano, on November 22, 2025 at the Choreographers & Composers 2025 event in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater at The Juilliard School in New York City, NY.

  • Performed by Janis Bady, Antonia Gonzalez, Lathan Goodrum, Sara Guo, and Logan Rivera, dancers, Kingsley Hsieh, clarinet, Pierce Wang, violin, Noa Mogle, cello, and Shiqin Wang, piano, on November 212 2025 at the Choreographers & Composers 2025 event in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater at The Juilliard School in New York City, NY.

Program Notes:

A dreamscape suspended between desire and dread.