Performance at the New Music Symposium

My composition for solo flute, Ricercar dell’affinità (2015), received the US premiere at the 2017 John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (March 26-30, 2017). The symposium featured daily concerts, panels, and presentations on contemporary music.

Characterized by a fantasy-like, rhapsodic narrative, Ricercar dell’affinità employs several compositional techniques derived from the composer’s exploration of the perceptual affinity of tones. The processual musical objects are distinguished by unique timbres and textures, in turn suggesting a musical and procedural affinity produced by gradual transformations of the tonal and metric structure. Following a short, improvisatory prologue, the piece unfolds in two contrasting sections, with the first one featuring a two-part, cyclical counterpoint of rapid florid gestures, and the second displaying more melodically and harmonically linear material.