Allison Au, saxophone<\/p>\n
The Migrations Ensemble:<\/strong> Migrations\u00a0is a musical exploration of why people leave their homes to pursue life in a new land, and the reverberating impact it has on future generations. It is an acoustic tribute to the complex but universal human act of migration, weaving lush, mosaic-like dreamscapes with poignant, heartrending lyrics.<\/p>\n A suite of music conceptualized by the JUNO Award-winning saxophonist and composer Allison Au (pronounced \u201cow\u201d),\u00a0Migrations\u00a0draws emotion and depth from Au\u2019s family history of immigration to Canada: from Southern China and Malaysia on her father\u2019s side and war-torn Poland and Israel on her mother\u2019s side. A biracial descendant of migrants, Au\u2019s compositional process is also informed by her personal experience of reconciling displacement, cultural identity, family legacy, and the notion of home. \u201cMigrations\u00a0is one of the most important pieces of music I have created because it is so personal. It speaks to my identity as a Canadian born to immigrant parents and delves into subject matter that I previously attempted to articulate, but never found the project through which to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n Commissioned by the Royal Conservatory of Music in 2019,\u00a0Migrations\u00a0premiered in January 2020 at the 21C Music Festival at Toronto\u2019s Koerner Hall, and was recorded as Au\u2019s fourth studio album in 2022 in Toronto.<\/p>\n Au\u2019s most ambitious compositional work to date, the suite marks the first time Au has featured\u00a0both vocals and string quartet in her writing. As a testament to the sentiments of traumas and upheaval shared by migrants of different backgrounds and circumstances, the lyrics of\u00a0Migrations\u00a0feature the words of poets including Emma LaRocque, Ruth Padel, Rae Marie Taylor, Duncan Mercredi, Chief Dan George, Langston Hughes, and Wanda Coleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Au\u2019s most ambitious compositional work to date, the suite marks the first time Au has featured\u00a0both vocals and string quartet in her writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[4581,40497,5522,42024],"tribe_events_cat":[5052,5513],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/114854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/114854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115073,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/114854\/revisions\/115073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114854"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=114854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTodd Pentney, piano
\nJon Maharaj, bass
\nFabio Ragnelli, drums
\nAlex Samaras, voice
\nMichael Davidson, vibraphone
\nAline Homzy, violin
\nAysel Taghi-Zada, violin
\nCatherine Gray, viola
\nAmahl Arulanandam, cello<\/p>\n