Serenata a due (2003)
Duration: 9’
Composed for flute and guitar. Also available for violin and guitar.
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Score excerpt
Awards Received:
Honorable Mention, 2004 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Alpha Lambda Chapter) First Annual Young Composers Competition
Premiere:
Tara Nadel, flute / Yuri Liberzon, guitar
East Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
Spring 2004
Performers in audio recording:
Jessica Finch Kasprzyk, flute / Benjamin Biers, guitar
Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
March 5, 2005
Program Notes:
This piece, composed for flutist Tara Francke (later to be Tara Nadel), was written as a musical ode to the flute and the guitar, two of the most flexible and consistently beautiful instruments. Both can execute shifts of mood, dynamic level, articulation, performance technique and overall style fluently, changing instantly from dolce to violento and back, while sounding gorgeous regardless of the amount of dissonance used in the composition. These remarkable abilities are greatly amplified when the two instruments play together, and off of each other. The goal of this piece was to allow both instruments to do what they do best, in terms of techniques, gestures and sonic idioms, while simultaneously complementing each other musically and aesthetically, thereby producing a whole that is much more than the sum of its instrumental parts.
— December 2003