Invocation was commissioned by Yale University for the fiftieth anniversary of the Yale Memorial Carillon, and premiered by Brink at the 2016 GCNA congress at Yale.

The piece begins mysteriously, playing with slow arpeggios in the hexatonic scale. A deeply expressive section follows, with chromatic harmonies and an impassioned lyrical line. After the melody dies, a rhythmic pattern emerges from silence, and builds over the course of several minutes in an unrelenting crescendo, evoking the sound of swinging bells.

This recording is performed by Joey Brink at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago in July of 2016.

Invocation (2015)

Joey Brink