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Piano sonata (solo piano)

by Chris Dench (2015)

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Work Overview

The Piano Sonata occupies a special place in my composerly output, and not only because it has taken up over 2% of my lifetime. It is by far my largest essay for my own instrument (that I admittedly play very poorly) and is the fulfilment of a longstanding ambition. It took shape entirely in my studio in Ballarat, Australia, and the writing occupied me for all of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Peter de Jager commissioned the work, and I was delighted to be able to provide a vehicle for his astonishing pianistic talents; it was written to share a program with the Alkan Symphonie from Op.39, Szymanowski's Third Piano Sonata, and BarraquƩ's Sonate pour piano. Cast in a single arch, it has nine continuous, inter-related movements.
Chris Dench

Work Details

Year: 2015

Instrumentation: Piano.

Duration: 45 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Contents note: Whiteout -- Three windows -- Heat sink -- Photino birds -- Gallery of spaces -- Lévy flights -- EM fugue (A - B - C) -- k=+1 -- Infallscape -- Tombeau/Omega point.

Commission note: Commissioned by Peter de Jager.

First performance: by Peter de Jager — 6 Aug 15. Freedman Fellowship Recital: 'Pillars', Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne

Information about the work is on the composer's website

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for/to
2017 Art Music Awards: Performance of the Year Winner Peter de Jager for performance on 9 Oct 16

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Performances of this work

9 Oct 16: featuring Peter de Jager.

6 Aug 15: Freedman Fellowship Recital: 'Pillars', Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne. Featuring Peter de Jager.

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