Premiere Performance:
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New Music New Haven
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Morse Recital Hall, Yale School of Music
New Haven, Connecticut
March 10 , 2022
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Simon Karakulidi, piano
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Additional Performances:
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Yale School of Music Commencement Concert
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Morse Recital Hall, Yale School of Music
New Haven, Connecticut
May 22, 2022
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Simon Karakulidi, piano
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The 43nd Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival
Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
October 13, 2022
Yevgeny Yontov, piano
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East Tennessee State University
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Powell Recital Hall,
Johnson City, Tennessee
September 23, 2022
Yevgeny Yontov, piano
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Bowling Green Faculty Artist Series
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Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
March 29, 2023
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Yevgeny Yontov, piano
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Minori (2022)
SOLO
Duration: ca. 10' m
INSTRUMENTATION
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Minori was composed in New Haven, Connecticut and completed in January of 2022
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The minor mode can evoke a wide range of emotions: melancholy and lament; storm and stress; anger and aggression, to mention but a few. In my piece Minori for piano solo I wanted to explore this bewildering array ad absurdum. Juxtaposing short ‘clips’ derived from a single minor sonority, I sought to create a temperamental collage of musical emotions in which gestures alternate so rapidly until they eventually lose their affective impact and become empty placeholders for emotion.