SUPERVILLAIN ÉTUDES FOR NEW MUSIC EDITIONS FERUARY 2023

We are pleased to release our first two new music editions for 2023.

Vincent Ho’s Supervillain Études fixate on six supervillains from comic book culture. Ho found that each of these villains are extreme expressions of psychological disorders and decided to dive into their psychological profiles collaborating with choreographers to see their takes on animating each of the profiles. The Supervillain Études take gestural cues from choreography while maintaining the profiles and personalities of the aforementioned supervillains, forming a compellingly moody, exciting, and villainous set of works. Volume 1 contains the first three études: R1ddler, 2-Face, and P3nguin. Volume 2, coming soon, for C4twoman, Poi5on Ivy, and J6ker suitable for advanced student performers and above.

Since first performed in 1998, Gareth Farr’s Ahi for piano trio has graced the stage by amateur and professional musicans alike. The style of Ahi varies in each of its four movements. The flavour of a French lullaby predominates in the instantly appealing first movement; an intense and unrelenting second movement harbours overtones of a military factory via aggressive pizzicato and a syncopated piano part; while a Balinese pop-inspired fourth movement contains numerous gamelan-like effects. The composer notes that “Ahi stands in extreme contrast to anything I have written before”. suitable for secondary school ensembles and above.