Hughes of Sylvia 

2017

Duration 9'
Instrumentation flute, alto flute
Premiered March 2017, Center for New Music: San Francisco, CA – Siroko Duo
Commissioned by Siroko Duo in collaboration with Helia Music Collective 
Program Note Hughes of Sylvia is centered around complicated close relationships, specifically the relationships that Sylvia Plath had with various men including her father and Ted Hughes.

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
- Sylvia Plath