
SOLOS AND DUOS
COLD WAR RADIO [2018]
[electric five-string MIDI cello and electronic sounds]
(Can also be played on amplified acoustic cello)
Audio track provided as AIFF file upon request
Commissioned by Iracema de Andrade
Premiered on August 10, 2018 at the Centro de Cultura Digital. Mexico City.
Iracema de Andrade.
DURATION: 9'
MANO A MANO I, II, III, IV, V [1997/98 (I-III), 2005 (IV), 2007 (V)]
[solo piano]
Commissioned [II] by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) and by Sara Laimon and Musicians Accord [I,III].
Premiered [II] April 26, 1997. Pinacoteca Virreinal. Mexico City. Alberto Cruz Prieto, piano.
Premiered [I,III] April 7, Miller Theatre. Sara Laimon, piano.
Premiere [I-IV]: April 3, 2005, Rochester, NY. Cristina Valdes, piano
DURATION: 16'
MACHINARY [2007]
[piano duo]
Premiered November 13, 2007. Eastman School of Music. Rochester, NY.
Jung Sun Kang, Hae Yeun Jeun, pianos.
DURATION: 10'
Program note:
I: Tinguely
II: Machine with Chinese Fan
III: Machine with Wishbone
IV: Child Watching Ball
V: Dododecapede
These pieces, five out of a growing collection of miniatures written for piano-duo, are part-homage, part-commentary on the awesome machines built by the American artist Arthur Ganson—a self-described cross between a mechanical engineer and a choreographer. Ganson’s machines are simple and profound, quiet and eloquent, high-tech and low-tech, finite and eternal.