Erina Yashima, the conductor, has been First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin since the 2022/23 season and has conducted numerous international orchestras.
Performer Biography
Rachel Portman, the composer, was the first woman to win an Academy Award for film score, for Emma (1996), and has received two further nominations.
Compositional Technique
The music in Tipping Points is designed to hold the 'darker matter' of the poems within its harmonic world, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two.
Composition History
The work Tipping Points explores the classical elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, as defined by Aristotle, to understand change and interconnectedness.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The creators of Tipping Points aimed to acknowledge the climate crisis's realities while using poetry and music to inspire hope and imaginative agency, rather than creating a 'climate Jeremiad'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Rachel Portman, Niklas Liepe (the violinist), and Nick Drake (the poet) conceived this project as a response to the climate emergency.
Performer Biography
Niklas Liepe, the violinist, founded his own festival in Hanover and received an Opus Klassik Award in 2021 for his album of Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for violin and orchestra.
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