Emily Levy

Previous Projects

Streetwise Opera: Opera Hour 2019, 'Re-Union' by Emily Levy

Opera Chorus for Streetwise Opera

'Re-Union' for Choir, Soloists and Small Ensemble was devised with the Performers of Streetwise Opera Groups in Manchester and with writer Marigold Hughes, as part of their 2019 'Opera Hour'. All the text comes from Streewise Opera Performers.

'The Rain is Coming'

Written for Roderick Williams and Susie Allan

Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano

Instrumentation: Baritone, Piano, ebow

6 Songs, Approx 25 minutes

Here is a short documentary on the project

Or here is the cycle in full

"Sorry, where are we now?"

written for 315 Ensemble at Frontiers Festival 2017, performed at Centrala, Birmingham 25.03.17
Small Ensemble plus live electronics https://youtu.be/k7lwJj-8mh0 Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, E.Guitar, Live Electronics Using a combination of recorded dialogue from the players, folio and programmed sound. The piece explores the sense of time that we spend lots of time in music trying to pin down versus the sense of time that we experience in the natural world and how far apart these sometimes seem.
'Zoetropting'

For the Thallein Ensemble, Performed at Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels December 2016

For large ensemble

Instrumentation: Flute, Ob, Cl,Tpt, Tmbn, Perc, E.Guit, Pno, Vln 1, Vln 2, Vla, Cello

‘Zoetroping’ (2016) was written for the 2016 collaboration between the Thallein Ensemble and the Bozar.  It explores the idea of successive states of simple movement and is inspired by the 3D printed Zoetropes of artist Mat Collishaw.