Creative Sharing in Composer-Composer Collaboration

Lucy Abrams-Husso, clarinets

Pia Siirala, composer

Kevin Barry Recital Room

National Concert Hall

Dublin, Ireland

In this collaborative partnership presentation, violinist/composer Pia Siirala and clarinetist Lucy Abrams-Husso will discuss their recent artistic project combining their individual artistic researches. Lucy’s artistic research at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki focuses on contemporary music practices in Finnish and American clarinet repertoire. Pia’s research project, also at the Sibelius Academy, is entitled ‘Aspects of Hearing’. She examines the musical traditions of indigenous peoples of northeastern Siberia using composition as a research method.

Lucy recently commissioned a new composition for solo clarinet from Pia for her next doctoral concert. In this presentation, we will discuss how we combined our research fields and different musical backgrounds to generate this new work. We will present short musical examples from our individual practices which informed our group work in generating this new composition. We will also discuss and present our experimentations, successful and not, along this collaborative process and discuss practical matters of sound creation on the clarinet and methods of notation. We will conclude the presentation with a performance of the work.