Cameo, a trio for the unusual combination of flute, viola, and piano from 2015, has caught second wind in the past year and some. Thanks, no doubt, to the fantastic recording by Izzy Lepanto Gleicher, Ayane Kozasa, and Adrienne Kim (below) who reprised it last spring in their Malmgren Concert at Syracuse. Other performers have included pianist Kyoko Fukushi’s group in Tokyo, Ensemble Ipse in New York City, and this week, I’m looking forward to hearing Ensemble Dal Niente from Chicago play it at our 2024 Cosmopolis Festival here in Hong Kong. Coming up in September, Dal Niente’s wonderful flutist Molly Barth will perform it again at Vanderbilt with her colleagues Eric Wong and Megan Gale.
Ilari Kaila, composer 