Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Work Overview

As a pianist, I studied many of the Chopin Ètudes and came to admire their expressivity and musical poetry despite being essentially exercises. Chopin's means of focusing the materials of each ètude on those focused on the pianist's technical development inspired me to attempt emulating these qualities with a contemporary refocus. The following 8 Ètudes cover an inexhaustive range of technical issues a contemporary or new music specialist pianist might face.

The first performance of Ètude II was in October 2016 by Jack Barnes in Hobart, Australia. The first performance of Etudes V, VI, VII, and VII was in July 2017 also by Jack Barnes in Hobart, Australia. Thankyou Jack. I owe you a great deal for this performance and so much more.

Work Details

Year: 2016

Instrumentation: Solo piano.

Duration: 30 min.

Difficulty: Advanced — Ranges from AMEB Grade 7 to L.MusA. However, the challenges between each etude are very varied buyy design, much like their Chopin counterparts.

First performance: 3 Nov 16. UTAS Recital Hall

Contribute submitted styles, genres, influences, etc:

Contemporary Piano Music, Chopin Etudes

First performance info from Contribute:

I: Unperformed II: Performed October 2016, recorded August 2017 III: Unperformed IV: Unperformed V: Performed July 2017, Jack Barnes - Piano VI: Performed July 2017, Jack Barnes - Piano VII: Performed July 2017, Jack Barnes, Piano VIII: Performed July 2017, Jack Barnes, Piano