Reena Esmail

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Reena will sign any purchased print score upon request (no additional charge). Just select the “signed” option for any eligible score when you add to cart, and then write the name of the recipient in the notes at checkout, and your score will arrive signed!

This option will only be available until December 17th to allow time for shipping. " Reena Esmail…related elements of classical Indian music to the symphonic tradition, utiliz[ing] advanced Western compositional techniques, all with an orchestra and chorus versed in the stylistic and technical demands of the Baroque era. The results were extremely successful. This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity is a powerful work of music. " -Opera News " This theme is so catchy that I heard someone whistling it during intermission. When’s the last time that happened at a modern music concert? " -San Mateo Daily Journal " …an engaging new piece by the young Street Symphony composer-in-residence, Reena Esmail, “Take What You Need,” that sounded like Sondheim at his most lyric and without the cynicism. " -Los Angeles Times " Reena Esmail’s Hindustani-inspired Clarinet Concerto with the estimable clarinetist Shankar Tucker, was a floral summer night with exotic perfumes coupled with a free-flowing fast movement of scales passed around from soloist to orchestra. " -The Daily Gazette " When Esmail sang, the inmates spontaneously joined the orchestra, clapping along, and they shot up out of their seats to cheer her encore. " -Los Angeles Times