Alexa Letourneau, Composer
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Welcome to the page of Alexa Letourneau, composer, currently based in New York City.
04/14/2024
I'm so thrilled to announce that in the fall, I'll be attending the Manhattan School of Music, pursuing my DMA in Composition! I'm going to be a doctor!!! ❤️🤍
HUGE thank you to everyone who helped me get here, especially Valerie Coleman-Page. I'm so excited to continue my education in NYC at such an amazing school!
02/01/2023
https://youtu.be/jhJMueDtS4A
New music from my dear friend Xenia St. Charles Iris Llyllyth! When I reached out to some friends looking for pieces to play at my recording session in The Tank center for sonic arts, a space with 40 second natural reverb, I never could have envisioned such a profound and deeply beautiful piece would emerge. It was SUCH a joy to learn and record!
Floating In Warm Water by Xenia St. Charles Iris Llyllyth Floating in Warm Waterfor solo alto flute in a highly resonant spacecomposed in 2021by Xenia St. Charles Iris LlyllythAlexa Letourneau, alto flutehttps://ale...
08/28/2020
Tune in tomorrow at noon EST to hear the premier broadcast of my piece "praz/nota" for solo viola, written as a part of Curtis Summerfest! I'm so thrilled with the final product, and can't wait to share it!
https://youtu.be/02BgMe3ZDsY
This livestream event is a marathon of all the pieces written by the enormously talented composers who attended YASP this year. Mine is second on the program, but I encourage you all to stay on for more of the broadcast! I made some truly incredible friends this year, and their music is stunning.
Broadcast: Young Composers Marathon Join us in celebrating the progress and artistry of our Young Summer Artist Program (YASP) participants as they discover the music within! In this special br...
So happy to announce that my piece "Poetry in White" for flute and string quartet was chosen as one of the 25 semi-finalists for the Juventas New Music Ensemble call for scores! While they won't be programming my submitted piece, I'm incredibly excited about the potential for collaborating with such an excellent ensemble in the future, and so humbled to be chosen as a semi-finalist out of such a large field of applicants.
Another day, another premiere! This piece, "quiddities," is centered around personal experiences in this time of quarantine, both as someone who survived covid and as a musician who is attempting to remain collaborative despite distance.
Each of the four movements utilizes technology in a different way, becoming less traditional in sound but more collaborative in process as the movements go on. The accompanying visuals are all pictures and videos taken of my laptop throughout the rehearsal process, edited and processed to match my conception of the accompanying movement.
Many, many thanks to the incredibly talented performers who made this piece a reality!
Violin: Yuan-ju Liu
Viola: Tyler Pacheco
Cello: Herine Coetzee Koschak
Bass: Ayaka Ayaka
In case you missed the live premiere, here is brand-new ensemble Deuxplex, consisting of Alexa and Alexis Letourneau, performing my piece "defender of blackbirds."
You can find Alexis Letourneau at http://alexisletourneau.com
06/18/2020
Over the last two weeks, I've been participating in Fresh Inc Festival, Digital Edition, run by Fifth House Ensemble. I've learned so much and made some incredible friends, and now it's time to share all my festival projects with you!
Tonight (Thursday) at 8pm EST/7pm CST, tune in for a concert that will include the world premiere performance of my newest piece, "defender of blackbirds." This piece will be performed by the newly created flute duet Duplex, composed of myself and Alexis Letourneau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_k-BUL-ZEQ
Tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm EST/7pm CST, another night of world premiers! My piece "quiddities" for violin, viola, cello, and bass, will open the evening of entirely new works. "Quiddities" will be performed by the amazing Yuan-ju Liu, Tyler Pacheco, Herine Coetzee Koschak, and Ayaka Ayaka, and is also my first foray into visual effects accompanying a score, so you definitely don't want to miss this concert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbzxd5L8UM
I also had the opportunity to collaborate with the composer Steven Snowden and several other Fresh Inc participants on the second installment of the Sounds From Home project. We created a digital art installation that is fully collaborative, even for the listener. See a walkthrough and download the app at: stevensnowden.com/fresh
I'm live in 10 minutes, performing my own pieces, 2007-present! Make sure to tune in!
Experimental Sound Studio : The Quarantine Concerts The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor meant to provide artists a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. We believe in the necessity of art during difficult moments like thes...
04/10/2020
So excited to participate in The Quarantine Concerts, playing and singing my own compositions! April 11th was supposed to be the date of my composition recital, and while that has of course been canceled, I am so excited to have the opportunity to share some of my works with you nevertheless. I hope you're able to tune in! Visit https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts for more information, and to watch the stream.
HIGH TIDE (2019) by Alexa Letourneau
Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano
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