Three-Ply Yarn (2024)
A New Trio for
Flute, Oboe d'amore & Bass Clarinet*
*Alternative instrumentation: Bassoon
Alternative grouping: String Trio (available from 2026)
Commissioned by
Rachel Becker, Nicole Molumby & Leslie Moreau
Boise State University Department of Music
Boise, Idaho, USA
WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday 13 March 2025
Boise State University
LIVESTREAM LINK TO COME
A New Trio for
Flute, Oboe d'amore & Bass Clarinet*
*Alternative instrumentation: Bassoon
Alternative grouping: String Trio (available from 2026)
Commissioned by
Rachel Becker, Nicole Molumby & Leslie Moreau
Boise State University Department of Music
Boise, Idaho, USA
WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday 13 March 2025
Boise State University
LIVESTREAM LINK TO COME
Three-Ply Yarn (2024) Total Duration: 8’30” Stitch Patterns: 2’15” The Hidden Neighbour: 2’00 Transcendence – or, What We Leave Behind: 4’’15” Stitch Patterns
A short minimalist fantasia, based upon the number of stitches required to cast on different knitting patterns! The Hidden Neighbour Concerns solitary, marginalised workers: those Andean shepherds who care for the Idaho flocks. Based upon the Quenacho flute Transcendence – or, What We Leave Behind A minimalist piece, celebrating the total mechanisation of cotton production after the horrors and abuses of slavery |
Three-Ply Yarn (2024)
An Exploration of the Social History of Fibre Arts in Idaho & Worldwide
An Exploration of the Social History of Fibre Arts in Idaho & Worldwide
I am truly grateful to Rachel, Nicole and Leslie for the extraordinary creativity, imagination and vision which undergirds this commission. This most unusual project concerns fibre arts! Through music, my remit was to cover aspects of the history of the various fibre arts, their role within international trade (particularly as pertains to cotton); their ability to enhance community life and create cohesion; and to challenge any outstanding issues of social marginalisation related to those arts and crafts forms that were dependent, for centuries upon slavery and indentured labour.
The commissioners were keen to explore the intersection between Boise’s position within the Idaho and American wool trades, and Boise State University’s interest in fostering healthy and thriving communities throughout Idaho. They aim to build relationships within the fibre arts community through this project, but without neglecting to explore the global, social, and human rights issues that form part of an activity that brings joy to so many people. Sweeping wool from the floor after a community class is one thing: sweeping the truth under the carpet is quite another – and the commissioners were determined to avoid doing that. Both aims are woven into Three-Ply Yarn.
EXCITING FACT
This may be the very first wind trio to be composed specifically for Flute, Oboe d’amore and Bass Clarinet!
The commissioners were keen to explore the intersection between Boise’s position within the Idaho and American wool trades, and Boise State University’s interest in fostering healthy and thriving communities throughout Idaho. They aim to build relationships within the fibre arts community through this project, but without neglecting to explore the global, social, and human rights issues that form part of an activity that brings joy to so many people. Sweeping wool from the floor after a community class is one thing: sweeping the truth under the carpet is quite another – and the commissioners were determined to avoid doing that. Both aims are woven into Three-Ply Yarn.
EXCITING FACT
This may be the very first wind trio to be composed specifically for Flute, Oboe d’amore and Bass Clarinet!
Currently Under Exclusivity
On general sale from 01 January 2026
On general sale from 01 January 2026