Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
(2010)
Duration: c. 10 mins
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My Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano was begun in August of 2010 and completed in November of the same year. Since writing a short duo for violin and piano while I was in high school (my first work I'd written that was not for solo piano and performable by myself), I have wanted to write again for this instrumentation. This summer I had been listening to works such as the Ives Violin Sonatas (which I think are absolute masterpieces), the Bolcom Violin Sonatas, the Stravinsky Duo Concertante, and the Ravel Violin and Piano Sonata and Tzigane. Just listening to these great works compelled me to start jotting down some ideas for a violin and piano piece which suddenly began to take shape into a fully formed sonata. One of these ideas actually came straight from a recorded piano improvisation I made the year before. What finally resulted is a single 10-minute movement in arch form with a good bit of jazz and blues in it.
Premiered February 12, 2011 by the Juventas New Music Ensemble, Sara Matayoshi-violin, and Julia Scott Carey, at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA.
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