Work
five portraits
for orchestra
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About
five portraits is a set of five short scores/mini-concerti for orchestra based on the 'Big Five personality types' determined in psychology. Each 'portrait' focuses on one extreme of a personality types, with one instrumentalist being featured in a solo manner in each movement, with the sound of each solo instrument representative of each attribute.
-JC
Contents note
i - neuroticism
ii - agreeableness
iii - conscientiousness
iv - extraversion
v - openness
Performance history
01 Dec 2016: Recorded by the NZSO as part of the 2016 Todd Young Composers' Competition, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand.