Deconstructing László
This work for two pianos and percussion, commissioned by the Quatrix Quartet, is a tribute to the creation of the Hungarian painter, photographer and sculptor László Moholy-Nagy. In nine short movements, the suite deconstructs the aesthetic of the artist in an alternating sequence of movements named Order and their opposite, Disorder. The piece will be premiered on October 27th.
Pictures of a Revolution
The rise and fall of communism is depicted here through five conflicts featuring as many cities: the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, the uprising in Budapest in 1956, the Prague Spring in 1968, the 1980 strike of Solidarity in Gdansk and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
24 Preludes after Chopin
The exercise is one of appropriation, where the objective is a symbiosis, a subtle shift from the original work. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, the offset, like a remix, sheds new light on the music, which oscillates between the nineteenth and the twenty-first century.
Cantus
Cantus for Gilles Tremblay, Cantus as canticle, Cantus firmus. Tremblay's work reminds me a break-up, a formal shift, sparkling harmonies colored by the omnipresent shadow of faith.