Jasmine Lai
Night Thoughts
I am a young pianist, percussionist and composer. I am studying piano from Glenn Riddle, percussion from Sergei Golovko and composition from Tony Gould. I love interpreting music using either piano or marimba as there are a lot of different possibilities to perform the music. As a composer, I get a lot of inspirations from different composers through understanding the different genre of music. In terms of my music achievement, I was awarded AMUSA (Piano) in 2019 and was winners of MSV Piano Competition (12 years and under in 2016 and 15 years and under in 2020), a winner of Australian Marimba Competition (Australian and New Zealand Student section in 2019) and was one of winners in Artology Fanfare Composer Competition 2019.
The lyric is originally my poem and I make my music to make a song. This is my first time to compose a song. My poem is as follows:
Night Thoughts
Once on a winter cold night
Sitting restlessly
Mystery waits tomorrow
My eyes droop, the moon goes high.
The day disappears, the night comes,
Playing tunes quietly
My mind falls asleep with many thoughts
I fall down to a nought
My restling fear then comes to me
When I doubt tomorrow,
My head burns, my heart aches
And I’m deeply filled with sorrow.
And on that winter, cold night
Sitting as the hours go by
Sometimes sad and freezing
When I look at the sky
Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu
Lu lu lu lu lu lu
And by the end of the day
My dreams are far away.
By Jasmine Lai