violin
The Situation is Dramatic but not Hopeless
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The Situation is Dramatic but not Hopeless (2008)
Duration: circa 8 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered on October 19, by Ming Tsu and Lorenz Gamma, at the Boston Court Performing Arts Complex in Pasadena, CA.
Excerpt from live recording.
Program Notes:
Three main concetps were carried out composing "The Situation is Dramatic but not Hopeless".
The first concept seeks one-direction motives. By this, I mean that the use of returning materials is pretty much left absent, where motives develop but don't come back to the story line.
Meanwhile, the three main sections of the piece, within a framework of introduction, development, and conclusion, enclose their unique narratives. From beginning to end, the listener will follow a mutation in styles. Within each section, the listener will follow the definition and implosion of the objects in use. Each section starts very orderly, and as time passes, their grammar evolves.
Dedicated to Ming Tsu, and Lorenz Gamma.
Duration: circa 8 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered on October 19, by Ming Tsu and Lorenz Gamma, at the Boston Court Performing Arts Complex in Pasadena, CA.
Excerpt from live recording.
Program Notes:
Three main concetps were carried out composing "The Situation is Dramatic but not Hopeless".
The first concept seeks one-direction motives. By this, I mean that the use of returning materials is pretty much left absent, where motives develop but don't come back to the story line.
Meanwhile, the three main sections of the piece, within a framework of introduction, development, and conclusion, enclose their unique narratives. From beginning to end, the listener will follow a mutation in styles. Within each section, the listener will follow the definition and implosion of the objects in use. Each section starts very orderly, and as time passes, their grammar evolves.
Dedicated to Ming Tsu, and Lorenz Gamma.
Piano Quartet
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Piano Quartet (2004)
Instrumentation: Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by Cistermúsica (Portugal).
Premiered on May 22 of 2004 by the Moscow Piano Quartet at the XII Cistermúsica (2004) .
Excerpts from live recording by New Fromm Players, Tanglewood Music Center, August 2006:
Movement I, Movement II, Movement III
Program notes:
This work comprises three movements, where the two outer movements project great rhythmical energy with short motives, sparkled with different colors and sonic qualities, and fragmented through the ensemble. The second movement draws languid, introspective lines of a melancholic lyricism, featuring melodic transitions between the piano and the violin, and short episode where the string trio abandons the omnipresence of the piano.
Instrumentation: Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by Cistermúsica (Portugal).
Premiered on May 22 of 2004 by the Moscow Piano Quartet at the XII Cistermúsica (2004) .
Excerpts from live recording by New Fromm Players, Tanglewood Music Center, August 2006:
Movement I, Movement II, Movement III
Program notes:
This work comprises three movements, where the two outer movements project great rhythmical energy with short motives, sparkled with different colors and sonic qualities, and fragmented through the ensemble. The second movement draws languid, introspective lines of a melancholic lyricism, featuring melodic transitions between the piano and the violin, and short episode where the string trio abandons the omnipresence of the piano.
Clarinet Quintet
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Clarinet Quintet (2006, rev. 2008)
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objects are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed archs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objects are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed archs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.
Periodically Aperiodical - Aperiodically Periodical
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Periodically Aperiodical - Aperiodically Periodical (2002)
Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, premiered by the California Ear-Unit, Ojai Music Festival, 2002.
Excerpt from live performance by the Ear-Unit at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March 12, 2003.
Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, premiered by the California Ear-Unit, Ojai Music Festival, 2002.
Excerpt from live performance by the Ear-Unit at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March 12, 2003.