Title: Escalator
Commission: 2017
Completed: 2018
Instrumentation: oboe and horn soloists, harp, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass
Premiere Location: Ensemble Dal Niente
Premiere Ensemble: Chicago, IL
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Sky Macklay is a composer, oboist, and installation artist originally from Minnesota, currently wrapping up her DMA at Columbia University and living in Chicago. Her works have been performed by ICE, Splinter Reeds, Quatuor Bozzini, Wet Ink, Dal Niente, and The Da Capo Chamber Players and her piece for the Lexington Symphony was the winner of the 2013 Leo Kaplan award, the top prize in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. In 2015 her installation of inflatable harmonica-playing robots, Harmonibots, received the Ruth Anderson Prize. She has been commissioned by The New York Virtuoso Singers, Chamber Music America, and the Jerome Fund. Her string quartet Many Many Cadences, recorded on Spektral Quartet’s Grammy-nominated album, also received an ASCAP award.