BESPOKE SONGS is a cycle of love songs for soprano and chamber group setting twelve poems in six languages (English, French, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, and Russian). Six texts written by women poets spanning two millennia are framed and interpolated by six new texts written specifically for the piece by contemporary poet Kristina Faust. The result is a poetic narrative of a Love Anticipated, Found, Lived, Lost, and Remembered. The "BESPOKE SONGS Project" was a true collaboration between myself, soprano Fotina Naumenko, and my spouse, conductor Nadège Foofat.
