Suite for flute quartet that follows the Arno river from its source to its arrival in Florence.

6 - Cannottieri Sull’Arno

5 - L’Arno In Secca

4 - L’Arno Attraversa Firenze

3 - L’Arno Entra A Firenze

2 - I Fantasmi Del Rinascimento

1 - La Sorgente Dell’Arno

The title translates as “Quarantine Games for Two” and showcases some of the positive aspects of the quarantine such as spending more time with family and playing and making music within our bubbles. 
The suite is in three movements, fast-slow-fast, and each movement explores different ways of combining twos and threes, duplets, and triplets, simple and compound, seconds and thirds. "Rhythmic Dualism" is fast and energetic and starts with a theme in Lydian dominant mode, alternating with lyrical sections both constantly alternating between duplets and triplets. “Duplicitous Isolation” is slow and lyrical. “The Binary Prance” is an energetic dance in 15/16.

3 - The Binary Prance

2 - Duplicitous Isolation

1 - Rhythmic Dualism

The music one hears as a child has a profound influence on our own musical development. Sometimes that music has such an impact that it transforms us into musicians. My musical education started with my parent’s record collection that included Bach’s solo keyboard, violin, and cello works, as well as great romantic chamber works by Beethoven, Shubert, Schumann, Frank, and Faure (there was one pop album in our household: Sargent Pepper). 
While composing this work, these childhood musical memories kept appearing and would pull me in a variety of different directions, hence the title Divergent Memories. Some of these “memories” include the Baroque unending flow of 16th notes, the dramatic gestures of Bach’s solo works for cello and violin, the strength in Beethoven’s cello and violin sonatas, as well as French virtuosic lyricism.
The working title was Seven, as most of the rhythmic cells are built on different subdivisions of a seven-beat meter such as 3-2-2, 2-3-2, and 2-2-3. The complexity is magnified by having 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 meters nested within each other. 
The driving sixteenth-note patterns are relentless, and demand an athletic performance on the part of all players. 
Special thanks to Sae, Linda, and Nicholas for performing this work tonight.

Divergent Memories for Piano Trio

Lake  Erie Suite: 
1)	Sunrise  (dorian) 
2)	Blizzard (Etude) 
3)	Winter solitude (Adagio) 
4)	Waves (phrygian) 

Yuka Nakayama, Piano

Sebastian Birch

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