Videos

A unique work for accordion and electronics that straddles the line between solo and chambermusic with both the acoustic and electronic sounds generated by the soloist.

George Elliott Clarke & East And West Learning Connections presented 5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#23): Snazzy Jazz and Upscale Scat at the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto) on June 5, 2026.

Karen Usha performed two unaccompanied settings by David Jaeger. The Latest Bad News from Baghdad (poetry by George Elliott Clarke and Leilah Nadir) and An Invitation (poetry by Sudharshana Rajasingam).

Lament for Horn and Strings for the People of Ukraine (2022)
David Jaeger (b.1947)

Olivia Esther, horn https://canadiansinfonietta.com/olivi…
Tak Ng Lai, conductor https://canadiansinfonietta.com/tak-n…
Joyce Lai, violin https://canadiansinfonietta.com/joyce…
Alain Bouvier, violin https://canadiansinfonietta.com/alain…
Ian Clarke, viola https://canadiansinfonietta.com/ian-c…
Andras Weber, cello https://canadiansinfonietta.com/andra…
Tim FitzGerald, double bass https://canadiansinfonietta.com/tim-f…

0:00 Beginning
3:08 Lament for Horn and Strings for the People of Ukraine (2022)
7:01 Ending

Olivia Esther, Horn Conducted by Tak Ng Lai Musicians of the Canadian Sinfonietta

A poem by David Cameron set to music by David Jaeger C.M. and performed by Karen Usha Gray. 2020.

LANDSCAPE
I draw my hands apart
So you’re free to go.
The blue trees rise again:
This landscape I know.

Les trois mouvements de Lyrics, au marimba, composés par David Jaeger.

Recorded by Tim Roth and David Jaeger as part of the Centre BPMC Residency, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

Annie Li, piano

(starting at 30:18)
Nocturnes, Set II (2020–21) – David Jaeger (b.1947)
1 The Red Deer (b. 1947)
2 The Holes of Night
3 The House and You
4 Forget the Day