Sonder

About this piece:

Sonder, scored for soprano voice and piano, is a 4 movement song cycle written in collaboration with soprano and librettist Natalie Nelson who wrote the lyrics and premiered the work at Western University, Ontario. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonder aims to communicate the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Sonder serves to illustrate the feelings of isolation caused by quarantine felt by each person across the world, the grief therein, and the ultimate emancipation from.