FEATURED
Chamber Works
RECORDING RELEASED: 2023
THE Highwayman
Alfred Noyes’ narrative poem The Highwayman made an early impact on Burry when he discovered it in a faded book in his elementary school library. He remembers committing it to memory for a school concert, delivering the sumptuous descriptive language with all the drama a 10-year-old imagination could muster.
The musical ensemble is inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal work Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 (1912). While the music of The Highwayman is often influenced by the atonality of that earlier work, it also veers at times into other referential styles as the drama of the narrative dictates.
Premiered Nov. 5, 2021
String Quartet #1
String Quartet No. 1 was commissioned for the New Orford String Quartet by the Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council’s Music Commissioning program.
Song Cycle PremiereD: May 23, 2019
Sea Variations
For a number of years, Canadian Art Song Project and I have considered the possibility of working together. The company is a national leader in the commissioning and performance of new Canadian art song. The result of this project is the song-cycle Sea Variations for tenor and piano, with texts by poet E.J. Pratt (1882-1964).
