Concerto for Solo Piano and Solo Organ

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I began composing my Concerto for Solo Piano and Solo Organ in the early spring of 2007 and completed it in February of the following year and later revised the work in 2015.  I had wanted to write a piece for my friend Kirsten Homdrom and I to play together and, as we were both studying piano and organ, the idea to write a piece for our two performing instruments naturally came to me.  I wanted to write something that would be equally challenging and virtuosic for the both of us.  While considering how to write for these two instruments combined, I realized that I could use these two large instruments as orchestras in themselves, as composers had done before in writing symphonies for organ (Widor, Vierne, Sorabji) and piano (Sorabji, Alkan), or as orchestral reductions for concerti.  Of course, they can also be used as solo instruments.   In this way I set out to write a concerto where both instruments trade off roles of solo instrument and orchestra.  The work is in one single movement in sonata form with two very contrasting theme groups: one very chromatic, powerful and dissonant in D minor and the other playful, consonant, and nearly entirely in C diatonic.

This work was also arranged as my Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble in 2015.

Premiered March 30, 2008 by Kirsten Homdrom-organ, and the composer at the piano, at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH.