Category: Listen and Watch

Performed by John Cockerill, piano; Jessica Dussault, cello; Jessica Hanson, violin; and Becca Vieker, viola. (2010) In the Fall of 2009 I was approached by a student piano quartet to compose a new work for their ensemble. I quickly created what would become the first movement, and they were able to perform it in the …

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I began this piece, written for cellist David Boese, by writing the sentence, “David plays the cello.” Using that sentence I derived a series of pitches, which I serialized and used to create a majority of the pitch content. The work also incorporates harmonic aspects of a composition I wrote for my doctoral comprehensive exams, …

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