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The Maturing Suite
for String Duo, collection of 5 short pieces for Violin and Cello
by Frank Horvat (7 min)

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Musicians: Soo-Jung Yu (Violin), Meran Currie-Roberts (Cello)

Producer/Engineer: Frank Horvat

 
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Programme Notes...

The Maturing Suite is a set of 5 contrasting pieces for the violin and cello, 2 instruments that combine well to offer many textural possibilities. I conceived the suite as something that could be practiced and performed by students of the violin & cello. As you go from piece to piece, they get progressively more challenging. So it's the type of work that a student could always return back to over the long term as they advance in the technical prowess of their instrument.

Musically, I wanted each piece to evoke it's own unique character while using a variety of string techniques at the same time:

I: lyrical interplay between the 2 instruments
II: very melancholy, expressive folk piece, much vibrato
III: playful, quick, light
IV: haunting, like the soundtrack of a scary movie, featuring tremolo and glissandi
V: very rhythmic, groove oriented, lot's of pizzicato, can be performed with a metronome, drum or hand claps from a third party.

- Frank Horvat

LT#12, composed from 1994-1996


Student's are welcome to perform these pieces at Contemporary Showcase; an annual festival of contemporary Canadian music for students. See section 25 ("Chamber Ensemble") of the syllabus online at www.acnmp.ca

 

 




 
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