SEA LIGHT (2024) Two Bagatelles for piano
…as if light…
…changing colors of the blue sea…
Sea Light is dedicated to Lisa Emenheiser with thanks for her premiere performance of TABLEAUX, my major piano work, in February 2023. Sea Light was composed during a summer 2024 residency at the Ligurian Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy.
Tableaux (2022) for piano (28′)
Commissioned by: Dorothy Marschak for the 21st Century Consort and dedicated to pianist Lisa Emenheiser in memory of Deborah Marschak
Premiere: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. February 4, 2022 CONCERT VIDEO begins at 31.28. Program Note
Double Sonata (1989) for two pianos (22′)
Commissioned by: Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
Premiere: Anton Nel and Barry Snyder, pianos. Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY.
June 26, 1989.
Published: Presser #440-40018
Movements:
I. Adagio, senza misura (In memoriam V.P. and M.F.)
II. Molto maetoso
III. Veloce, misterioso, scorrevole
IV. Vivace leggiero
RECORDING, REVIEWS
Cut-time Shout (2004) for two pianos (2′)
Premiere: Frances Whang and Barbara Rowan, pianos
Published: Presser #140-40099
Impromptu (1987) for piano (5′)
Commissioned by: Mrs. Gene Rochberg
Premiere: James Primosh, piano. Free Library of Philadelphia, PA.
November 12, 1989.
Published: Presser #140-40077
RECORDING
Still Life With Blue (2012/19) for piano (12′)
Premiere: Gloria Cheng, piano STILL LIFE WITH BLUE (piano) Gloria Cheng, Live performance 2019 mp3
Fantasies (1975) for Piano Four-Hands
