Ithaca College Treble Chorale
Byssus (Recio)
Byssus by Matthew Recio (World Premiere)
- About Recio
- Matthew Recio
- Librettist Stephanie Fleischmann
- About the piece
- Commissioned by Dr. Hana Cai for the Ithaca College Treble Chorale.
- Inspired by the craft of artisan Chiara Vigo, the last woman and person alive who knows how to harvest and spin byssus: silk from the saliva of an endangered species of clam, the noble pen shell or "Pinna Nobilis".
- About Chiara Vigo & Byssus
