Beginner Piano Collection, 2’00 (2019)
The three pieces below were written during the 2019-2020 school year.
- Commissioned by the Penny Lazarus Piano Studio
Lost in the Library (Primer level)
Are you lost in the library, or lost in a book? Middle C position, brief hands-together playing and expressive dissonance. Spoken word. more info / buy
Wishing (Primer level)
Like a dandelion puff, a wish ascends into the sky. Using only the nine notes of Middle C position, the piece moves through C major, A minor, and F Lydian. more info / buy
Brave (Early Intermediate)
A dramatic solo using solid harmonies and rising chromaticism. Small hands can create ever more large and powerful chords using octave jumps and pedal. more info / buy
Solace, 2’00” (2012)
An early advanced solo inspired by the forests of I-Park. Although we are human and have complex plans and feelings, we are also vertebrates, mammals, and primates. We can walk through the forest amid climbing, crawling, and flying animals and like them, feel at home in nature. The nourishment is physical and well as spiritual: solace.
- Premiered at the I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT, June 16, 2012