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This Earthly Round - The Album
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List of events featuring my music, performed by fabulous musicians around the world.
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Upcoming Performances
Concert
Daughters of Elysium Premiere
Location
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
Artist / Group
Canberra SymphonY Orchestra
Date / Time
August 7, 2024 7:30 PM
Concert
Kinds of Blue - Melbourne Premiere
Location
Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Artist / Group
University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Date / Time
August 18, 2024 7:30 PM
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Miriama Young's compositions defy genre distinctions, and include chamber works, film scores, installations, and orchestral music. Through themes of ecology and loss in the Anthropocene, Miriama's soundworld is driven by a quest for the mysterious and sublime. Her work has been performed by ensembles across the globe, from Sydney Symphony Orchestra to Scottish Opera.
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OUR Store
Welcome to our digital store - the ultimate destination for finding unique and original digital scores created directly by yours truly! As a passionate musician and composer, I have put my heart and soul into meticulously transcribing each and every work in our collection. I believe in the power of authenticity and originality. That's why all our scores are created by the source - me, the composer herself! You won't find any generic or mass-produced scores here - every piece has been carefully crafted to bring out the best in each musical work.
Iron Tongues
Digital Score
$ 33.00 AUD
Kinds of Blue
Digital Score
$ 89.00 AUD
Reflections on the Harbour Light
Digital Score
$ 77.00 AUD
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Snapdragon
A dancelike, propulsive, intense piece, Snapdragon was composed during a time of media frenzy around America’s initial attacks on Iraq (2003). Snow was falling in Princeton, physically trapping the composer in a tall apartment, while TV media projected sensational stories and graphic images of far away places in turmoil. Bombarded by sensational stories and graphic images, the composer experienced a creeping sense of numbness, as weather and war preyed on her incapacity to act in any tangible way. So, the music that emerged from this time of darkness has a certain physicality, borne of frustration and a sense of disenfranchisement: a way to ‘voice’ when she wasn't at liberty to express her views.
It is music rooted in the body, composed for the body — with dance-like rhythms, pulsing heartbeat, and sighing breaths, Snapdragon powerfully 'voices' emotions that cannot be articulated in words.
Snapdragon was written for the Yesaroun’ Duo, with their fearsome exuberance and technical virtuosity in mind.
- Biography -
A Brief History
Miriama Young is an Aotearoa/ New Zealand - Australian composer and sound artist based at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. With a childhood as a cathedral chorister, and teenage years steeped in jazz and blues, her music reveals the influences of numinous ecclesiastical vocal music with the vibrant rhythms and harmonies of jazz. Her music is grounded in ecological concerns of the Anthropocene age. On a quest for the mysterious and sublime, Miriama’s output ranges from orchestral to chamber music, with works blending electroacousti celements and field recordings. Her compositions defy genre distinctions, spanning mediums such as film scores, installations, and orchestral works. Her work has been performed by ensembles across the globe, from the Sydney Symphony to Scottish Opera.
miriama.young@unimelb.edu.au
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