Nirmali Fenn Nirmali Fenn New York Nirmali Fenn is a Sri Lankan-born Australian composer. She received her initial music education in Australia from the universities of New South Wales and Melbourne, graduating with high distinction. With the support of a prestigious Clarendon Fund Scholarship, she later read music at Oxford University, U.K. She has worked on the faculties of the University of Hong Kong, New York University, University of New South Wales, Yale-NUS College, Singapore. She currently lives in New York working at University of Stony Brook. The kinaesthetic qualities of Nirmali's music has attracted the attention of distinguished choreographers such as Pun Siu Fai, Daniel Leung and Jiří Bartovanec. Her collaboration with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company opened the 9th Guangdong Dance Festival in Guangzhou, China. Her project 'Resistance' with Jiří Bartovanec from the Sascha Waltz Co. and ensemble united Berlin will be premiering June 06, 2021. Nirmali has served as composer-in-residence at a number of major European festivals, most notably the Lakes District Summer Music Festival in the U.K. and the Saxophone Habanera Festival in Poitiers, France. Of the first performance of her song cycle Over Exposed at Abbaye Royaumont in Paris, Le Monde praised it as “standing out in the genre of ‘songs’ of today” and La Croix described it as “deeply moving”. Her compositions have been performed by the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Linea, the Kuss Quartet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tin Alley String Quartet, Sounds Underground, the Endymion Ensemble, the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Concorde, the S.E.M Ensemble and the Eastman Broadband Ensemble. Through her music, Nirmali often challenges performers to ‘see’ with their ears and construct spatial ‘views’ of their surroundings. She believes that sound is one tool to give audiences the chance to experience the volume of the space in which they exist. Nirmali Fenn’s tracks Clash Of Icicles Against The Stars For Sheng, Flute And Accordion by Nirmali Fenn published on 2021-12-13T14:02:13Z Clash Of Icicles Against The Stars For Sheng, Flute And Accordion by Nirmali Fenn published on 2021-12-13T13:52:42Z Pokój w Pokoju - 'Peace in a Room' by Nirmali Fenn published on 2020-10-12T01:54:34Z Through A Glass Darkly by Nirmali Fenn published on 2021-01-30T19:24:33Z Blown Echoes for Solo oboe, electronics and pipes by Nirmali Fenn published on 2020-10-12T01:29:48Z The Clash Of Icicles Against the Stars by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T14:08:59Z A Highwire Act by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T14:07:04Z Metamorphosis for flute, clarinet, accordion, 2 violins by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T14:02:30Z Scratches of the Wind for alto flute by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T13:56:26Z Through A Glass Darkly for trumpet, accordion, clarinet by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T13:54:46Z
Clash Of Icicles Against The Stars For Sheng, Flute And Accordion by Nirmali Fenn published on 2021-12-13T14:02:13Z
Clash Of Icicles Against The Stars For Sheng, Flute And Accordion by Nirmali Fenn published on 2021-12-13T13:52:42Z
Metamorphosis for flute, clarinet, accordion, 2 violins by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T14:02:30Z
Through A Glass Darkly for trumpet, accordion, clarinet by Nirmali Fenn published on 2018-09-16T13:54:46Z