Nirmali Fenn : Associate Artist
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Photo: Artur Tixiliski
Artist website: http://www.nirmalifenn.com
The work of Sri Lankan-born, Australian composer Nirmali Fenn is
shaped by a life lived across continents, cultures, and forms of
belonging. Her compositions respond to a life in motion,
exploring home as a shifting perception and the search for
belonging not bound to place.
Fenn's portrait CD, released by Kairos, was praised as "dynamic
and sculpturally fluid," exploring the "poetics of spacetime
thematic resonance". Fenn's work has been commissioned by New
Music USA, the Juilliard School, UnitedBerlin, Fondation
Royaumont, and performed by the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Cairn,
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony, Ensemble Linea
and Trio Radial. She has been composer-in-residence at major
festivals in Europe and the U.S., including Zeitströme Darmstadt
and Yarn/Wire.
Fenn sees music as a tool for resistance, empathy, and spatial awareness, enabling listeners to perceive surroundings through sonic vibration and performers to "see" with their ears.
Nirmali Fenn — current to April 2014
Selected Commissions
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| Waking New Memories : for kargyraa singer, morin khurr, clarinet, horn, cello. (2026) | Trio Radial | |
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Prayer : for bassoon and piano (2022) | Commissioned by New Music USA. |
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Shadows Hold their Breath : for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and percussion (2022) | Commissioned by Ensemble Offspring, Noisy Women Commission. |
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When Apathy is Betrayal : for 2 sopranos, flute, violin, viola, cello, 2 percussion and electronics (2022) | Commissioned by UnitedBerlin ensemble, Germany |
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Pokój w Pokoju (Peace in a Room) : Peace in a Room for STBB (2018) | Commissioned by Cantando Admont. |
| An interior monologue : for solo viola (2013) | Commissioned by Ulrich von Wrochem |
