The lore of Ikaros (Icarus) and my collaboration with the poet Constantine Contogenis, whose family home is on Ikaria – the Greek island connected to the mythology – is at the heart of this album. He has also translated poetry by Constantine Cavafy which I...
Wave patterns from oceanic movement inspire rhythmic and sonic density in this work for piano. In place of cadences are still points where wave motion rests, creating a lull. The first section unveils pure wave action and its stochastic unfurling. In the spirit of the...
Each title is a shortened haiku, one line only. Most are distilled from traditional verse celebrating nature. Through brevity, one solitary thought emerges, befitting the musical setting. 1 – forest storm, rage. Rage in the natural world is not anger, but a...
This piano album visits the raga in Morning Meditation, folk fiddle and bass from the American square dance, dream images in Nocturne, heroism’s selflessness in Eroica, the impetuous melodies of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, Claude Debussy’s water music from his...
Baroque styling of Domenico Scarlatti and Johann Sebastian Bach is combined here with a freedom of tempo, tonality and density, embracing a unique modern expression for the harpsichord. Preludes and fugues are through-composed, sometimes with baroque-inspired motives...
Arpa is Italian for harp. Every voice in each movement is an arpeggio, the act of unfurling a selected group of tones, best expressed in the sweep of a harp. Lines of differing tempi interact, causing an expansion of western counterpoint, first refined in the music of...
