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thirteen songs for solo piano | 53' 30" | The Whereas songbook is a concept album of thirteen neoclassical pieces for solo piano written in 2011. The songs’ emotive content ranges from nuanced to dramatic, romantic to tragic, introspective to celebratory. All of the songs have clear form and structure; several use compound or unusual meters, and one has a strict left hand ostinato […] | ||||
for solo piano | – | A set of 12 waltzes for the intermediate pianist, inspired by the waltzes of Schubert and Chopin, but with an American twist—featuring original melodies alongside an array of American hymns, Shaker songs, and a creative version of Stephen Foster’s immortal “Gentle Annie.” This collection includes upbeat, energetic pieces as well as soft, tender ones—evoking the […] | ||||
13 songs for solo piano | 49' 25" | The October Wind songbook is a retrospective collection of thirteen pieces for solo piano written between 1981 and 2005. With strong, flowing melodies, tonal/triadic harmonies, and clear form, each song offers a unique journey to a gorgeous landscape of color and emotion. One of the pieces is for right hand alone. The book includes several […] | ||||
for solo piano | 2'30" | “Crime of Passion” is the main theme of the score Kurt Kuenne composed for his friend Jon Bokenkamp’s feature directorial debut Preston Tylk in the late summer of 1999; it received the Dale Melbourne Herklotz Award for Best Score at the 2000 Marco Island Film Festival. In 2016, this solo piano arrangement was featured on […] | ||||
for solo piano | 4'30" | The fifth in the series Leyendas Místicas (Mystic Legends), this moody little tango-milonga fantasy was commissioned by the talented Brighton pianist, Johan de Cock, to be premiered at the 2016 Brighton Fringe Festival. The title refers to one of the most picturesque and moving places in Buenos Aires, the ‘City of the Dead,’ Cementario de […] | ||||
Piano | 5'10" | This quiet contemporary composition is music portraying the quietness that comes as winter begins to lose its icy grip on the land. It is based on a simple, repetitive harmonic progression and clear melody that move through a few key changes and gradually build to a soft section that is like the melting snow. It […] | ||||
for solo piano | 20'30" | My Piano Sonata was written in 2010 and thoroughly revised in 2015. The piece is in four movements: Fantasia, Caprice, Blues, and Toccata Perpetua. The second movement, Caprice, may be played separately as an encore or recital piece. | ||||
for mixed septet | 13'30" | Chiaroscuro was composed in 1991 for the CONVERGENCE Ensemble, a group of dancers and musicians, who gave the first performance at The Painted Bride Gallery in Philadelphia. In the concept of the dance, lighting played a major role, sometimes silhouetting dancers posed like sculptures against a light background, sometimes presenting them brightly against the dark, […] | ||||
for piano | 2' 40" | Jazz Ground is a brief fairly simple piano solo, Gershwin-like in feeling. A third or fourth year student could manage it. It would serve as a break or change of pace in a heavier, classical recital. It is appealing and likable. | ||||
for solo piano | 11'30" | Variations & Fugue on a Bach-Busoni Chorale Prelude is based on Ferruccio Busoni’s transcription of Bach’s “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” BWV 639 From Das Orgelbuchlein, Part III (1713-17), and is to be played without pause after that piece. The several Busoni transcriptions of the the works of J.S. Bach constitute a musical […] |