FANTASY on RIMSKY-KORSAKOV’S SCHEHERAZADE for Two Pianos Eight Hands
Originally written for Four Pianos. Commissioned by the "Pianissimo!", Chicago based piano quartet.
Originally written for Four Pianos. Commissioned by the "Pianissimo!", Chicago based piano quartet.
Piano concerto transcription for Two Pianos Eight Hands. Commissioned by the "Pianissimo!", Chicago based piano quartet.
Commissioned by the "Pianissimo!", Chicago based piano quartet for the Debut concert at Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall of the Merit School of Music (Chicago, IL).
Piano concerto transcription for Four Pianos. Commissioned by the "Pianissimo!", Chicago based piano quartet, for the Debut concert at Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall of the Merit School of Music (Chicago, IL).
Commissioned by Alan Gampel, pianist and musicologist. Clive Greensmith, a cellist from the ‘Tokyo String quartet’ with Alan Gampel, pianist, premiered the “Psalmodia” as part of the ‘Music between East and West: Continuity and Change’ concert event. It took place at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Combining the painting with music, I wanted to convey a special pulsation, the unreal vibes, emanating from the "heated, scorching canvas of El Greco".
Originally it was written as a HOMAGE for soprano and cello. Commissioned by Jasmine Lin, violin, and Jacob Braun, cello. Premiered at the "Chicago Chamber Musicians’ First Monday concert series" at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova. Premiered by the musicians from the New York Philharmonic at Merkin Concert Hall as part of the "Philharmonic Ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall" series.
Originally it was written as a HOMAGE for soprano and cello. Premiered at the American Composers Alliance Festival at the Symphony Space by the members of the "Second Instrumental Unit" ensemble: Sarah Beaty, clarinet, and David Fulmer, violin.
The idea of the first movement named "Reflection" was to express the reflection in many different meanings (inside and outside of us). In the second movement, "Antiphon", I used a very attractive idea of a dialogue and a contradistinction, a repetition and an imitation.
There are two movements: ‘Lullaby Dedicated to an Adult Son’ and the ‘Soliloquy’ that is based on a reworked Gregorian chant. Premiered by Evangeline Benedetti, a member of the New York Philharmonic, and Margarita Zelenaia.
Each of three dances: WALTZ, TANGO or FOXTROT moves through various moods, invoking a mosaic of images with the development of each individual plot.
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