Name: Bluff by Marti Epstein
Duration: 6 min 3 s
Description: This is a short, 3 movement piece I wrote for the Vienna Sax Quartet.

"SAKANA" for solo tenor saxophone
Performed by Masanori Oishi

SAKANA for tenor saxophone

UNO adjunct instructor Jeannette Gabriel’s students collected oral history interviews in fall 2018 for the course History 2990: African-American and Jewish Collaboration and Conflict. The interviews were collected from Jewish and African American residents of Omaha. Individuals interviewed were: A’Jamal Byndon, Tuffy Epstein, and Richard Fellman.

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This is a short, 3 movement piece I wrote for the Vienna Sax Quartet.

Bluff

Notturno for String Quartet (2025)

Baritone, Ren Price
Piano, Alonso Saveedra

Copyright 2018 Luminance

Light

The only time money can buy you happiness is when your eyes follow a sliver coin being thrown into a deep clear lake and the sun reflects on it on the way down.

Live recording performed by JACK Quartet in spring 2019

silfra

vocalise 1

(t)regrow

XIII was commissioned by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and premiered at the 40th annual Bowling Green New Music Festival. This performance is from the premiere.

Terah Ensemble
Alex Popovici, Conductor

XIII

Tellement Elle by Jay Sathyanarayanan

Quince Ensemble Distance Residency
with Berklee College | Boston, MA

Recorded in each Quince member's home studio May 2020

Tellement Elle by Jay Sathyanarayanan

Flute: Alaina Clarice
Oboe: Liz Fleissner
Clarinet: Brian Do
Bassoon: Caden Ridge
Horn: Zachary Anderson

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Thoughts on the piece: Quartertones and any smaller division of the octave is something I have a really hard time exploring in acoustic pieces. I love doing this with electronics- I could listen to two sinewaves beat against each other for a long time. Still, it’s been really difficult for me to incorporate this into my acoustic language. This sort of abstractly expressive sound-world isn’t always the right place for it, but I think this piece has expanded my range significantly. The emotive power and tension/release that these colors give the piece add a yearning or aching quality to the slow gestures, and there are some moments that I think just sound magical with these new colors.  

Cathrine Erb is an American photographer whose “luminous photo-based works capture a spirit of the sublime in everyday life. Her practice is a meditative process, exploring and revealing the radiance of the present moment and the complexities of relationships among people, places, things, as well as things unseen. Her studies of clouds transcend space and time with luscious translucence, while her portraits of everyday objects are instilled with the ineffable longing of memory.” 
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Image: Detail from Catherine Erb - Cloud Study 32 (Clouds over Water), 2016, Mixed media photo encaustic, 36” x 80”

Bluff

Marti Epstein

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