WINDSONGS
a song cycle of Heather Webster’s poetry
As the sun set over the vineyard, Karina’s beautiful soprano voice sang out. She’d flown back to South Australia for the weekend with a few days off her schedule at Opera Australia. Joined by amazing musicians Yundi Yuan on piano and Amanda Home on clarinet. It was a magical concert, performed in Heather’s vineyards in a magical autumn evening.
I love these words from poet Heather Webster. Heather lives and writes in her vineyard Windsong Wines in one of South Australia's beautiful wine regions - Langhorne Creek, A place filled with bright Australian sunshine, gum trees and birdsong. Her writing is a celebration of this.
I set her beautiful poems for soprano, piano and clarinet. Have a listen to Karina, Yundi and Amanda - the musicians who premiered this cycle. There are six songs in total - all together the cycle goes for around 25 minutes.
In these videos I incorporated photos from Heather’s beautiful vineyard and home, where the musicians premiered the work. I am thrilled to say that Heather printed a run of her wine with an excerpt of my music which is pretty amazing!!
Having tried it, I thoroughly recommend serving Heather’s wine while listening to these songs!
If you’d like to perform these, please get in touch to talk about licencing and bespoke adjustments you might want. These songs could be performed with a different feature instrument such as a violin or flute. Although I am partial to the clarinet for a wine sound!
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