Chaos Incarne Trio's Latest Commission: Hannah Selin

 

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From the trio's website:

We are excited to announce our latest commissioning project! Chaos Incarné is commissioning a work from composer, violist, and vocalist Hannah Selin to premier at the 2023 Clarinetfest in Denver, Colorado. This continuous 10-12 minute piece for 2 soprano clarinets and 1 bass clarinet will explore the climate crisis in three sections, depicting natural disasters and how they can break apart one entity and form something completely different. The sections will flow from chaos to stillness back to chaos. Selin’s chamber series “Pieces of Place” has established her as an advocate for environmentalism through music by exploring the effects of global warming on places she’s called home. Connecting with the trio’s mission, this work will address an issue that affects us all through the intersection of feminism, environmentalism, and music.  We are especially excited to announce the opening of our consortium for this piece to open in May. Read on for more about Hannah and how you can support us in bringing this music to life.

Hannah Selin juxtaposes acoustic instruments with electronics and field recordings to create striking and vibrant sound-spaces. Her music delves into the inner lives of sounds: shimmering sound-masses interact in unexpectedly moving ways, and instruments merge and separate to create sounds beyond their own.

Hannah’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists including Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Chromic Duo, SPLICE Ensemble, CreArtBox Ensemble, Network for New Music, soprano Stephanie Lamprea, clarinetist Ford Fourqurean, and percussionist Lucas Conant. Her choral piece “Winter” from Four Mountain Songs won second prize and the most audience votes at the 2021 Balsys International Composition Competition, as well as the 2022 Red Jasper Award. Meditation on 2/5 for solo violin (scordatura) won a Merit Award at the 2021 Tribeca New Music Festival. Hannah was selected as a 2018 resident at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her score for short film 222, directed by Delfine Paolini, was nominated for the 2018 Peer Raben Music Award at the Soundtrack Cologne Festival. Hannah has collaborated with choreographers Ellenore Scott (Broadway Dance Center) and Lydia Hance (Frame Dance Productions). Her sound installations have been featured at Metropolitan Gallery 250 in Philadelphia, PA and the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE, where she collaborated with visual and textile artist Anne Yoncha.

Hannah is co-founder and lead singer with the band GADADU, a cross-genre songwriting project. Together, the band has released three albums: The Weatherman Is Wrong (2022), And I See Night (2015) and Outer Song (2018). As a violist, Hannah performs with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the New York metropolitan area. She is a founding member of Xanthoria Quartet and Violalia Duo. Hannah lives in New York, and is completing her PhD in composition as a University Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia.