String Quartet Chicago Premiere

Fall, Leaves, Fall (2016), for string quartet was selected to receive two performances for the upcoming Chicago-area concerts of works by or about the refugees. A part of the Crossing Borders Music Collective, the premiere performance took place at a concert at St. James Cathedral on June 10, 2018.

The string quartet was performed by Roy Meyer, Maya Shiraishi, Sixto Franco, and Tom Clowes.

Scored as a cavatina, Fall, Leaves, Fall, was inspired by a poem by Emily Brontë that encapsulates the emotional struggle for a sense of belonging and the nostalgic acceptance of new cultures, places, realities …