[Music] 3rd Prize - Carnival of Endangered Animals - The Collab

🥉 3rd Prize - Music, 2025 Clare C. & Friends Fellowship

About Project

“Carnival of Endangered Animals” is a contemporary ecological chamber music project reimagining Camille Saint-Saëns’ 1886 classic.

Inspired by both environmental urgency and the power of musical storytelling, this work replaces the original's light-hearted caricatures with sonic portraits that reflect today’s climate and extinction realities.

Each movement represents an endangered species or a vanishing cultural identity, expressed entirely through acoustic chamber instruments. The work emphasizes sound over image, portraying presence, identity, and ecological tension through extended techniques, timbral layering, and symbolic transformation of known musical themes.

Importantly, this work reflects how the climate crisis changes the very language of classical music. Shifts in rhythm, harmony, and structure mirror changing seasons, disrupted ecologies, and collective anxiety. In this way, musical form itself becomes an ecological statement.

About The Collab

Founded in July 2022 by pianist Jihye Yoo and flutist Jiyeon Seo, The Collab is an interdisciplinary music collective based in Incheon, South Korea. The group was initiated by classically trained artists—many of them parents—seeking to create ecologically and socially conscious performances.

Upcoming Shows

• November 2026 & Seoul (or Daejeon)

Contact

Yoo Jihye

Director

Email: isac101@naver.com