Melia Watras

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Play/Write

Planet M Records presents Melia Watras’s Play/Write, a showcase for the violist as both performer and composer and celebration of creative friendships, with all but one of the works marking a world premiere recording. In addition to Watras’s performances and compositions, the album highlights the poems of Herbert Woodward Martin, and features compositions by Frances White and Pulitzer Prize finalist Leilehua Lanzilotti. Performers include violinists Rachel Lee Priday and Michael Jinsoo Lim, harpist Valérie Muzzolini, narrator/vocalists Sheila Daniels and Carrie Henneman Shaw, and the Brazen butterfly ensemble conducted by David Alexander Rahbee.

STRING MASKS

Melia Watras, viola
Charles Corey, Harmonic Canon and Bass Marimba
Sheila Daniels, actor/director
Frequency: Lim, Watras, Thorsteinsdóttir
Jose Gonzales, actor
Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin and voice
Rhonda J. Soikowski, actor
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello and voice
Bonnie Whiting, Cloud-Chamber Bowls

Works by Melia Watras

Planet M Records (2022)

Rose Wollman: Loop: Ligeti’s

inspiration & Legacy

Rose Wollman, viola

Melia Watras: Blue Rose for viola solo (2021)

Acis Productions (2022)

MELIA WATRAS: 3 SONGS FOR BELLOWS,

Buttons and Keys

Jeanne Velonis, accordion

Planet M Records (2022)

FIREFLY SONGS

Frequency: Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin and voice; Melia Watras, viola and voice; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Atar Arad, voice
Arturo Alto, voice
Catherine Connors, voice
Vina Vu Valdés, voice

Works by Melia Watras

Planet M Records (2021)