Program Note/Poem:
The Cricket:
Such a tiny creature
the cricket,
how greatly it can move us
with its sad chirp,
no longer willing
to living among weeds and roots,
it came indoors to join us
living under our bed,
making a sound that might cause
a traveller to burst into tears,
or keep a wife whose husband’s gone
awake until dawn,
no human things
guitar or flute,
quite match up
to nature’s music.
- by Du Fu, transl. David Young
Biography:
I call myself a storyteller with sound. I have studied a Bachelor of Music (Composition) at the University of Melbourne. My storytelling begun with a love for literature from Murasaki Shikibu, Jack Kirby to Leo Tolstoy. My aim with music is for a space for people to relate and heal, start conversations between woven bonds, and evoke primal yet intricate psychological narratives, speaking to you regardless of your walk of life. Australian place is imbued, like birdsong, – Magpies, Willie Wagtails, Galahs, – as well as flowing creeks and the rustle of gumtrees in the wind, contrasted with the psychogeography of dense urbanism like the Melbourne CBD.
Achievements: Third Prize in the Composition Competition 2022 Recorder Orchestra for Orpheus Music, working with the Southern Voices Melbourne choir for the Choral@Montsalvat 2024, composing for The Grainger Wind Symphony for the “Made in Australia” concerts from 2024-2026, and participated in the Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award 2025 Workshop.