instrumentation: orchestra (3333 4331 timp+3 strings)
duration: 8 minutes
premiered March 10, 2012 by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vinay Parameswaran

Program Note

I wrote Tidalwave Kitchen while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, homesick for the beautiful and dramatic landscape of the Northern California coast that I loved and missed so much. The piece is inspired by my many memories of hikes shrouded in fog, tidepooling on the rocky beaches, and sitting by the pacific listening to the hallucinatory sounds of the ocean, the keening gulls, pounding surf, sizzling of sand and sea foam, drifting in and out of fog and clarity, order and randomness, reality and imagination.

—Gabriella Smith

Performances

April 21, 2023: Seattle Symphony, conducted by Sunny Xia, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington (more info)

September 22, 23 & 24, 2022: Seattle Symphony, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, Benaroya Hall, Seattle [more info]

July 21 & 22, 2022: San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco (7.21) and Frost Amphitheater, Palo Alto (7.22) [more info]