Premiere Performance:
New Music New Haven
Morse Recital Hall, Yale School of Music
New Haven, Connecticut
March 10 , 2022
Simon Karakulidi, piano
Additional Performances:
Yale School of Music Commencement Concert
Morse Recital Hall, Yale School of Music
New Haven, Connecticut
May 22, 2022
Simon Karakulidi, piano
The 43nd Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival
Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
October 13, 2022
Yevgeny Yontov, piano
East Tennessee State University
Powell Recital Hall,
Johnson City, Tennessee
September 23, 2022
Yevgeny Yontov, piano
Bowling Green Faculty Artist Series
Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
March 29, 2023
Yevgeny Yontov, piano
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
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.