Piano Sonata No. 2

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I began composing my Piano Sonata No. 2 in February of 2006.  At that time I was going through a difficult time that turned out to be a period of great inspiration and productivity for me compositionally.  I wrote the beginning material of the first movement and decided to create a larger-scale sonata in an overall dissonant and freely-chromatic language; something I had never attempted before.  By the fall of 2006, I had completed the fourth (then planned as the third of three movements) but set aside the piece to work on several other pressing projects.  I came back to the work in 2008 determined to finish it.  The second movement was completed in the early summer of 2008, the third at the end of the same summer, and the first at the end of September 2008. 

Premiered November 9, 2008 with the composer at the piano at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH.