A young provincial girl lives through dreaming about true love, meeting real love, failure, disappointment, and finally finishes her life as a mermaid. 5 songs composed in Russian folk, romance and opera styles. Intermediate to advanced level.
Category: counterpoint
I am less of myself, on Hazel Hall’s poem, for soprano and chamber ensemble
Gathering your identity among the chaos of life. Energetic and war-like character. Genre of neo-baroque aria. Intermediate to advanced level.
Polly-Birdie’s Secret Life, suite for two violins
4 pieces. Reveal of second ego, self-reflection, weirdness and eccentricity. Contemporary style, tonality and atonality, palindrome/mirror/canon structures. Advanced level
Over Cool Waters Bridge, for chamber ensemble (flexible score)
Late autumn elegiac mood, falling leaves, flashes of previous happiness, last hopes. Japanese-like pentatonic scales combined with tonality. Beginner to intermediate / amateur level
Pagodas Sailing in Clouds, for woodwind quartet
Appearance and disappearance in clouds, mysterious shapes and shades, abstract character. Contemporary style, pentatonic scales, polymodality, counterpoint. Intermediate to advanced levelÂ
Morning Leaves Palette, for flute quartet
2 movements. Lights and shades in morning forest, blurred palettes, echos, color shimmering. Contemporary post-impressionistic style, special blurring technique. Intermediate to advanced level
In Yellow Waves, for Bb trumpet, alto saxophone, drums, and percussion
2 pieces. Endless sand-dunes of dark-yellow color, huge sun disk hanging indifferently in the sky, taste of adventure in the Arabian Desert.
In Yellow Waves II, for Bb trumpet, alto saxophone, and drums
Inspired by driving through desert landscape. Energetic, active rhythmically and harsh in pitches. Counterpoint and bimodality. Intermediate to advanced level
In Yellow Waves I, for Bb trumpet, alto saxophone, and drums
Swaying motion imitates moves along sand-dunes. Hard-swinging rhythm, triplets and syncopation refer to jazz style. Intermediate to advanced level