Lumen prime aurore

The title of my music takes inspiration from the poignant poem about wisdom, creation and light by Hildegard von Bingen, O Verbum Patris.  Lumen Prime Aurore translates as 'first dawn’s light', a theme directly related to the research that I am currently undertaking for my opera about Antarctica where, within the South Polar Circle, a miraculous display of colourful lights known as the Aurora is created when electrically charged particles from solar winds interact with meteorological gases when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere.  In this music, my aim is to capture the beauty of Hildegard’s writings and the wonderment of this mysterious phenomenon that graces the skies of Earth's southernmost continent.