The Vulture

Instrumentation: solo mezzo-soprano

Vocal Range: Bb3–C5

Duration: 5 minutes

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The Vulture was selected as a winner of the One Voice Project organized by Lisa Neher in 2015. The piece considers the idea that nothing really disappears, only transforms into something new. The vulture in the text even anticipates this transformation, not only searching for a meal, but relishing her participation in this process.

The text was written by the composer:

I am a vulture
gazing among the trees

I am vulture

patient for you

Patient, for your tiny morsels

gazing for you

Once inside me,

returned.