AND CHASE

Year of composition: 2013
Instrumentation: violin, viola
Duration: 6’

Commissioned by andPlay duo

Premiere: andPlay duo (Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola)
Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, NY
Oct 25, 2013

PROGRAMME NOTE

As the title suggests, this short piece takes the form of a musical ‘chase’ that features two similar but profoundly different instruments: the quick, agile violin and its pursuer, the slightly bulkier and stronger viola. Throughout the piece’s three distinct sections the chase gradually weaves its way up the instrumental register, as the gap narrows…

Score excerpt

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • second prize, 2015 SOCAN Foundation Young Composer Awards (Pierre Mercure category)