Baker Consortium 2024
2024-2025
McKinley Baker has commissioned Sharneisha Joyner to compose a new and exhilarating work for multiple clarinets (E-flat, B-flat, and Bass Clarinet) and electronics. There will be a B-flat clarinet substitute part for the E-flat clarinet included with the music.
Premiere: October 31, 2024
Festival Premiere: Music by Women Conference, Columbus, OH, March 6th - 8th, 2025
With the title of the piece being tentatively “One Voice” my thoughts around the piece have become more of a question of “what does one voice mean” ?Does it mean that only one of us speaks? Does this mean that we all speak but we must be saying the same thing? Is it really dissension if we aren’t saying the same thing? Could we be saying different things that actually fit together like pieces of a puzzle? Clearly, I can’t know the answer to this question, if there is an answer at all. But, how can music reflect this process of questioning that I think completely relates and mimics the way our society has been [ineffectively] communicating?
Premiere: International Clarinet Association, Low Clarinet Fest, January 8th - 11th, 2025 - Glendale, AZ
