Dal Niente violist Ammie Brod sat down with composer Wang Lu to talk about her piece Pecking Orders, commissioned by Dal Niente with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Dal Niente will give the world premiere of Pecking Orders at Constellation on October 13.
Katinka Kleijn explains the genesis of her epic work for 11 musicians, Forward Echo.
“The premise behind this cycle is basically that I try to write a piece that helps me to create an imaginary animal in my mind and compose with it. And I mean actually compose with it, where the animal has volition and ends up helping to drive the form and ideas in the piece.”
