Fire is a nurturer of ecosystems and cultures. It is an essential element of all life. For millennia, the raw nature of fire shaped the ecology of western North America and the original cultures that inhabited it. Paradoxically, as fire shaped and then settled culture in this region, people began to push it away. Yet, […]
Budapest, Hungary | Summer, 2024 Video and music recording with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Poelking remotely recorded (via Zoom) with this orchestra in a 1 hour recording session for a new piece for string orchestra with percussion. This music is now available on all streaming platforms. For When We Arrive demonstrates the beauty that can […]
Vauhini is a writer. She’s used to being able to describe human experiences in ways that help readers make sense of their world. This is what she does. But she can’t write about her sister’s death – not in a way that captures what she’s really feeling anyway. Sparked by a bit of guilty curiosity, […]
Cowboys and East Indians (Playwright/adaptation of the story collection) Commissioned by the Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado, Colorado New Play Summit, February 2024.
American Lullaby – Still Singing was an evening-length dance theatre performance created by Judy Bejarano, artistic director of IMPACT Dance Company. This collaborative performance featured IMPACT company members as well as faculty and students of the Colorado State University (CSU) Dance Program. American Lullaby – Still Singing was part of CSU’s thematic “Year of Democracy” […]
Cayla Bellamy collaborated with CSU colleagues Jooyeon Chang and Kevin Poelking, current CSU composition student Jalen Thompson, and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra. The works on this album include solo, chamber, and concerto compositions by Thomas Dempster, Reena Esmail, Nancy Hill Cobb, Kevin Poelking, Jalen Thompson, Joan Tower, and damali willingham.
Johnny Plastini’s viscosity intaglio work “Geoflux” was featured at the 2024 Delta National Small Prints exhibition at the Bradbury Art Museum. The juror for the 2024 DNSPE was Yuji Hiratsuka, award-winning printmaker and Oregon State University distinguished professor emeritus. He selected 65 prints from over four hundred submissions by artists around the world.
Falling into Language presents nine diaspora Iranian artists who engage diverse forms of the Persian alphabet, handwriting, text, and fragments as a way to remain connected to their cultural inheritance and form an essential part of their artistic practice. Through the use of Persian script in painting, geometric patterning, and installation, the artists maintain a […]
A new composition of two Saxophone and Piano sonatas by Jim Klein and Ian Jamison (co-composition project) was performed by myself on the piano with Andy Dahlke on Saxophone (Saxophone Professor at the University of Northern Colorado). This was recorded and produced by the CSU engineer, James Doser, and published in CD and digital form.
This work was professionally recorded by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra in summer 2023. The BSO is a professional ensemble that has been nominated for numerous awards including scoring music for shows on Netflix including “Wednesday”, “Squid Games” and Oscar-winning films like “Parasite”. With Eyes Anew is a short orchestral work that begins seemingly mid-thought, lost […]
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