Nirmali Fenn

The I Ching provides a symmetrical structural base, while Rimbaud's poem 'Barbarian', with its highly emotional imagery, evokes the spatial range and temporal pace of The Clash of Icicles against the...

Nirmali Fenn had already written three ensemble pieces including the accordion when Milan Osadsky asked her to create a solo work for the instrument. In The Edge of Self the composer homes in on one o...

Inspired by American poet Clayton Eshleman's reflections on the drawings of Henri Michaux, Nirmali Fenn creates a subdued yet highly expressive sound world in her latest work. The solo viola's open st...

Some Words with its theme of transformation, and transcendence was inspired by a set of four poems by Australian poet Judith Wright. Nirmali Fenn expresses in music the spatial allusions and metaphors...