Birthday Music
(2025) 6'
Birthday Music is a semi-improvised work created in collaboration with composer-performers Courtney Cousins and Martha-Maria Mitu. Inspired by the dynamics of a birthday dinner party, the piece explores the subtle theatricality inherent in everyday moments and transforms a familiar social celebration into an experimental musical dialogue.
Folia aos Retalhos
(2025) 6'
for chamber ensemble
Penelope Cairney-Leeming - Flute
William Hammond - Bass Clarinet
Jack Myles - trombone
Guozhi Long - Percussion
Dafne Anar - Harp
Hayden Miller - Piano
Simon Song - viola
Frederick Carter - Cello
Unsustainable
(2023) 7'30''
for cello and snare drum
Unsustainable explores the fragile union of the cello and snare drum treated as if they were a single, hybrid source of sound. The piece begins with a concentrated timbre born from their synchronisation, establishing a seemingly solid texture. Yet, this stability soon unravels, through subtle shifts in timbre, pitch, dynamics, and rhythm. The music resists its own continuity. Disruptions highlights the difficulty of sustaining balance, echoing ideas of corruption, decay, and fragility.
Unsustainable was commissioned by Lost Fawn for the Green Recovery Concert (Stereo Bar, Glasgow, 2023).
Meio Fora de Foco
(2023) 8'15''
for symphony orchestra
Quando A Rosa Enxergou O Rio (When the Rose Saw the River)
(2022) 9'45''
Quando a Rosa enxergou o rio is an electroacoustic work that weaves together recorded speech and accordion improvisation. The voice belongs to my great-grandmother, Rosa Gonçalves, an 80% blind Brazilian woman who grew up in the early 20th-century countryside of São Paulo. In a 2012 conversation, she recalls playing in the woods with her siblings, wandering until they discovered a river — a memory reflecting resilience, and the courage to find one’s path in life.
Accordionist Neil Sutcliffe improvised over a hand-drawn map of the woods, responding to the places Rosa mentions in her voice recording. Material from both recordings were then explored, finding new ways to transfer their interaction.
Myopic, watering eyes and city lights
(2023) 7'
String Quartet and Vibraphone
Ta Prá Cá Ça 51
(2021) 7'30''
Percussion Duet
. Humming to the Burning Land
(2021) 5'
String Orchestra