your story

your story

2026

3.3.3.3-4.3.2.1-timp-perc(3):vib／mar／scym／slap-hp-pf-str

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An orchestra is a body built to realize a conductor's interpretation and a fixed score with precision. What matters is not the individual performer's judgment or memory, but how exactly the score is executed. your story inverts this structure. Rather than handing performers a score to realize, it brings back what belongs to the performers themselves. Before rehearsal, each musician writes down three memories: a phrase from a childhood song they once learned, a passage from an étude they repeated hundreds of times before a competition, a fragment of a cadenza from a concerto they once performed. This personal material becomes the music that will be played that day. The structure of the piece follows these same three memories. Childhood melodies scatter, each performer moving at their own pace, before the most-practiced passages interlock and gather into a single stream, and finally the brightest remembered moments arrive one performer at a time, stepping forward before the orchestra. As a result, the piece changes entirely depending on who is playing it. The same work sounds completely different in the hands of different people, because its identity lies not in the score but in those who perform it. If precisely reproducing a fixed score is not the whole of performance, the piece asks what else there might be. your story returns that answer to each performer, reaffirming that what makes up an orchestra is, in the end, people.

for the aspen conducting academy orchestra, aspen music festival and school

july, 2026 | aspen, united states aspen conducting academy orchestra (reading) tbd · conductor