December 31, 2011
Four New Pieces, Two New YouTube Videos
Before I get to the new pieces, here's a video of The Twiolins' premiere of my 2 violin piece, Grand Duo. It was performed at Der Alten Synagoge Hirschberg-Leutershause, Germany accompanied by the beautiful Butoh dancer, Damaris Härtl.
And Kateřina Pavlikova's husband, Vit V. Pavlik, has created a video of live painting to accompany my piece, Par-Delà des Eaux Profondes for Baritone Sax and Electronics.
Now on to the four new pieces. I've composed 20 pieces this past year! I wrote a very short piece for flute, viola and contrabass, Ainsi l'aube.... It's full of bird songs and string harmonics.
Ainsi l'aube... for Flute, Viola and Contrabass - Synthesized Demo
And I wrote a very dramatic tango for solo violin for Karen Bentley Pollick. The piece came together almost miraculously and Karen already has it under her fingers. It'll be premiered early 2012 and it's already sounding unbelievably good.
Grand Tango for Solo Violin - Score
Grand Tango for Solo Violin - Synthesized Demo