Waking Up to the Memory of You

This chamber recital dwells in the fragile territory where dreams reveal what waking life conceals. Across this programme, music becomes a vessel for emotions recognised too late — love understood only in retrospect, when it can no longer be held. In sleep, memory loosens its grip on time, allowing the truest feelings to surface without restraint. Upon waking, we are left with their afterimage: tenderness sharpened by absence, intimacy reframed by distance, and the quiet ache of realising what once was, only when it is already gone.

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Programme

Lance Mok: new work tba

Jean-Luc Defontaine: Couleurs d'un rêve (1995)

Erik Van Geit: Dream & Dance (2015)

Jennifer Higdon: Twilight (2023)

Lance Mok: 12 Ways to Say Goodbye, Op. 25

V. Silent Estrangement

XI. This Pillow That Wouldn't Let Go of Your Scent

Lance Mok: This city that bears your nickname, that lane his shadow, this nook another him's scent, Op. 24

Alvin Leung: Deep Blue Heart (2017/25)

Charles Koechlin: Épitaphe de Jean Harlow, Op. 164

Kristina Arakelyan: 2 Pieces for violin, saxophone, and piano (2017)

I. A Song without Words

II. Burlesque

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