Works

Humayun (2015), 7:30′

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano
premiered 06.05.2015, Chicago, Eighth Blackbird


Ensemble Dal Niente
Michael, Lewansky cond.

Humayun is a Turkish makam, or mode, known by similar names in other Middle Eastern music cultures. A temporally stretched, pulsating melody in this mode forms a continual thread that is surrounded by a small constellation of objects moving in different tempi.