"Béton Brut. C'est Formidable!" was inspired by my earliest memories of brutalist architecture from when I was a child visiting Crimea. I witnessed these large soviet brutalist structures that were built in the 1970s. These buildings always instilled a sense of awe whilst also being tremendously terrifying in their stark contrast to the architecture that I was used to seeing back in the United States. This piece is dedicated to my familial apartment in Sevastopol, "Repina 18". Composer: Tamara McLeod (b.1999) Premiered by Arun Asthagiri, Alex Heidt, Marcus Stevenson, and Isaac Pagano-Toub at the Bowdoin International Music Festival Student Composer's Concert in August 2021

Andrej Markovic plays "Mise en Abyme", by composer Tamara McLeod Composition department recital San Francisco Conservatory Of Music (Sol Joseph Recital Hall) San Francisco, California 05.17.2021.

Women in Transit by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) A Co-Production with San Francisco Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition Program (SFCM, TAC). Friday, April 4, 2025 in Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. "Okean" by Tamara McLeod Megan Chartier, cello Fixed media & Visuals by Tamara McLeod World Premiere E4TT’s 2024/25 season is sponsored, in part, by grants from the Ross McKee Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, SF Grants for the Arts, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund, funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc, and supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Ensemble for These Times gratefully acknowledges the following for their invaluable assistance in bringing this program to life: San Francisco Conservatory of Music SFCM Production Department SFCM Recording Department Steve Horowitz, Director of Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Doug McCausland, Studio Manager (TAC) Laura Huey, Program Manager (TAC) David Garner, Professor of Composition Daven Tjaarda-Hernandez, SFCM Production Manager Emma Markowitz, SFCM Studio Coordinator (Recording Department) Hailey Gutowski, SFCM Concert Operations Manager Nanette McGuinness, E4TT Artistic Executive Director Jessica Folson, E4TT Operations Coordinator Stephanie M. Neumann, E4TT A/V Project Specialist Abigail Monroe, E4TT Social Media Assistant Merve Tumba, E4TT Media Assistant Addelyn Geenen, E4TT Intern Hung-Yu (Yoyo) Lin, E4TT Intern Sam Mason, E4TT Intern Renata Volchinskaya, E4TT Intern Video by Mister WA Productions with Media Recorded by SFCM students Video introduced & closed with Graphics by Stephanie M. Neumann www.MisterWA.com www.E4TT.org © Ensemble for These Times, 2025

Custom demo recording done by Matthew Curtis of Choral Tracks Composer: Tamara McLeod (b.1999) Video filmed in San Francisco by the composer

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music streamed the 9th Biennial Art Song Composition Competition on March 24, 2021. Switching off with the Choral Composition Competition year by year, this competition sees student composers present works written for voice and piano. Tamara McLeod (BM ’21) was awarded the $100 third prize for “Dirge for a Joker;” poem by Sylvia Plath; sung by mezzo-soprano Ava Harmon (BM ’21), accompanied by Dana Marie Chan (MM ’22). McLeod studies with David Garner; Harmon studies with Cathy Cook.