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Smoke darkened sky

SOLO piano Duration: 12′ Composed: 2021 Programme Note: The pandemic has seared many images into our consciousness.  For me, one that made a deep impression was during the second wave in India.  There were so many deaths from Covid that the funeral pyres, which were burning day and night, led to intense, thick, clouds of smoke. Smoke Darkened Sky was commissioned by Jennifer…

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Let Hands Speak

SOLOpiano Duration: ca. 8 minutesComposed: 2003 Programme Note: Let Hands Speak was commissioned for the Fourth Honens International Piano Competition as the imposed piece to be played by all twenty-one finalists.  As a work that is meant to showcase the individual talents of pianists who have an extremely high level of skill and virtuosity, it is necessarily challenging both musically…

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Star Burning Blue

SOLOpiano Duration: ca. 10 minutesComposed: 2000 Programme Note: Star Burning Blue  was commissioned by the Esther Honens International Piano Competition for Maxim Philippov; first laureate of the 1996 competition.  It is a single movement work lasting approximately 8 minutes, and roughly depicts the life cycle of a main sequence, supergiant star. Main sequence stars, such as the sun, make up…

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Aural Tectonics: Fragments, Shards, and Jagged Little Pieces

SOLOpiano Duration: ca. 15 minutes Programme Note: Some objects, either in art or in the physical world, are made up of smaller elements which have come together by accident or design.  Tectonics is the study of how the object is constructed.  One of the more familiar applications is related to geology: the Earth’s crust is not a solid mass, rather,…

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