Katia Beaugeais’s Like Snowdrops You Will Shine premiere by Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective
ABC CLASSIC ALBUMS
September 2021
“Best of Australian Classical Music”
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/best-of-australian-classical-music/pl.ad604cb92b344705be0ccdab8bf0ad37
March 2021
Re-released on “Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers” CD
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/shop/women-of-note-volume-3/13215312
2018 ACO Collective/Hush ABC CD
https://www.abcmusic.com.au/discography/collective-wisdom-hush-volume-18-aco-collective
2019 Selected for ACO’s Worldwide Playlist
Australian Chamber Orchestra’s playlist celebrating “Incredible Female Artists”
https://www.aco.com.au/blog/post/playlist-international-womens-day
SHEET MUSIC
Score/Parts
Published by the Australian Music Centre:
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/beaugeais-katia-like-snowdrops-you-will-shine
LISTEN Like Snowdrops You Will Shine for string orchestra
CONCERT PROGRAM NOTE
Like Snowdrops You Will Shine for string orchestra (2018) by Katia Beaugeais
Like Snowdrops You Will Shine for string orchestra features Australian nature sounds to create a soothing, peaceful and uplifting sound world.
Like Snowdrops You Will Shine was composed for the 2018 Hush Hospital Foundation CD and was chosen for the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2019 worldwide selected playlist celebrating “Incredible Female Artists”. This year it was re-released on an ABC Classic album: “Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers” (Vol. 3) and selected for ABC’s “Best of Australian Classical Music” playlist. It is currently the main theme tune for a Queensland Mental Health online course.
Like Snowdrops You Will Shine refers to the delicate white snowdrop flower that symbolises hope, optimism, courage, resilience and new beginnings.
Through my music I hope to provide comfort for anyone who is facing a challenging time in their lives.
The stylistic character of my piece is inspired by a musical activity during my composer residency at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, where we composed, played and improvised over a pentatonic scale. Like Snowdrops You Will Shine is based on a set of pitches of a pentatonic nature that evolve into a series of various modulations to form the main musical material.
My aim for this piece was to create a work that would have a calming effect and serve as a distraction to reduce stress and anxiety. Opening with a delicate and playful ‘snowdrop’ pizzicato motif bouncing around the ensemble, shining melodic colours and thick, warm chordal harmonies create an uplifting and positive ambiance. Soothing seagull bird-like harmonic glissando sounds enhance a calm and meditative soundscape atmosphere.
Like Snowdrops You Will Shine is dedicated to doctors, nurses, volunteers and the general public whose compassion, kindness and encouragement we could not do without during difficult times.
© 2021 by Katia Beaugeais
REVIEWS
The Music Trust
“Like Snowdrops You Will Shine by Katia Beaugeais opens softly, with a theme that weaves through gently downward moving patterns that might have the effect of bringing a troubled person from heightened levels of stress to a place of peace; the birdsong coda might elicit images of escape to a world outside the hospital environment.” – Gwen Bennett 31/10/18.
The Culture Concept
“In Katia Beaugeais’s Like Snowdrops You Will Shine wisps of white petals are harvested and blended to create a mysterious mixture of subdued sadness and comforting joy. Together these themes cascade to form a contented chorus of continual radiant shine.
The music tumbles with triumph and unassuming bravery.” – Rose Niland 31/10/18.
CD Launch
16 + 17 September 2018 – ACO Collective Sydney & Melbourne
Broadcast live on ABC Classic FM
Sydney City Recital Hall ACO Collective CD launch – With my beautiful & supportive maman.
Sydney City Recital Hall ACO Collective launch – CD signing with Elena Kats-Chernin.
