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New Recording of Rising Up by
Award-Winning Composer Debra Kaye Now Available
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A new recording by award-winning composer Debra Kaye, entitled Rising Up is now available for digital download on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, and deezer. Scored for string orchestra, the 11-minute, one movement work is performed by the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Jan Kučera, conductor. Released on Navona Records (NV6445), Rising Up is one of the highlighted new works for large ensemble on their Inviting World Vol. 2 recording. Works by Dinah Bianchi, Richard E Brown, William Copper, Lawrence Mumford, and Bruce Reiprich, are also included on the recording.
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Hailed as “a strong and vibrant piece" by GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta, Rising Up was written in 2020 during the height of the pandemic lockdown. It is a dramatic piece about the physical, spiritual, and soulful experience of what it means to pick yourself up from the darkest place to a feeling of joy. Rising Up was recognized with a Global Music Award for creativity and originality, and on the day of its release, was chosen for ASCAPS's New Music Friday Playlist.
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Kaye says she wrote Rising Up to raise the spirit of resilience and hope during times of uncertainty. She was inspired by a classic she read during the pandemic, The Brothers Karamazov, particularly by Dostoevsky's quote, "I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there."
Heralded as “a new voice on our horizon” by Classical-Modern Music Review, Debra Kaye’s music has been described by Gramophone Magazine as “an eclectic unfolding of creativity.” With a compositional style that ranges from lyrical to grooving, experimental to coloristic, she is winner of four Global Music Awards. Her catalog of chamber and orchestral music, art songs, choral, and theatrical works continues to expand through her steady stream of commissions and collaborations.
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The 2022-23 season includes the premiere of five new works including a commission from the accordion quartet ‘Bachtopus,’ a new work for the eGalitarian Brass Quintet, a composition for saxophone great, Joe Lovano with string orchestra, Ukraine 2022 for narrator and piano inspired by a text by Roger Aplon, and the premiere of her chamber orchestra piece, My Candle Burns. Other highlights include the acclaimed release of her solo violin work, Turning in Time, written for and recorded by violin virtuoso Kinga Augustyn, and the Off-Broadway production of The Ugly Duckling, with music by Kaye, which was noted by the New York Times during its three extended runs. Her music has been performed by such acclaimed artists as the Lincoln Trio and Daedalus Quartet, and at premiere venues including Carnegie Hall.
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Kaye’s debut album And So It Begins (Ravello Records), produced by GRAMMY-winning Judith Sherman was on Ted Gioia’s list of top 100 CD’s and described as, “…inspirational, an album that will surely stand the test of time.” Kaye has received awards from ASCAP Plus, and grants from
Meet the Composer, Mannes College, New School University, and the Edward
T. Cone Foundation, among others, and has held composing residencies at the Millay Colony and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. New Music USA's New
Music Box published a series of Kaye’s about the process and inspiration for her music, and she appears in Adriano Bassi’s book, “A Guide to Women Composers" (Odoyo). An advocate for new music, Debra serves on the board of the New York Women Composers and is an Associate Director with Composers Concordance.
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