Reviews
Leaves: A Poetic Musical Valentine
"Live music on viola (Candace Bilyk) and guitar (Timothy Kennedy) throughout pretty much had me swooning and happy to be there as an audience member....It's a poetic, musical valentine to love, and the country of my birth, where I live and also struggle to figure out who and what I am, and who and what I want my country to be."
The Awakening: Music is Hauntingly Apt
"Bilyk's music for The Awakening is dark, complex, and thorny. It's often pretty to listen to, but it's never easy listening: as was the case in the music composers like Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss were writing in Kate Chopin's time, Bilyk's melodies are elliptical and challenge the ear's expectations about tonal structures and chord progressions. It's hauntingly apt for this story of a woman who longs to break free of social strictures."