Waking Up to the Memory of You
We wake knowing the love we missed, and carry it gently.
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.
Programme
Jean-Luc Defontaine: Couleurs d'un rêve (1995)
Jennifer Higdon: Twilight (2023)
Alvin Leung: Deep Blue Heart (2017/25)
Nikola Resanovic: Trio for alto sax, violin, and piano (2006)
I. Rock — Thru a Stained Glass Window
II. Stone Cold Sentiment
III. The Last Chord
Lance Mok: This city that bears your nickname, that lane his shadow, this nook another him's scent, Op. 24
Lance Mok: Romance and Metamorphosis, Op. 20a
I. Romance
II. Metamorphosis
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
Cast and Creative
mins
8
5
10
10½
5
7½
3½
5
54½
Past Performances
2026



