A Butterfly Emoji
Composed in 2016
Arranged for chamber ensemble in 2023. 

Originally composed in 2016 and my official opus 1, this prelude for piano was revived from my withdrawn stuff after I was quite taken by a picture of a female friend with the caption "How many butterflies are too many butterflies?" (This in turn, was a quip on a comment our Statistical Inference professor had made in class - "How much is too much?")

The music was arranged for chamber ensemble in January 2023.

Listen to the original piano version here: https://youtu.be/Gs6koLKM9HA

A Butterfly Emoji, for chamber ensemble (2016, arr. 2023)

“Mis-en-scène ( for woodwind quartet)", coming this month!*

I am a British composer, who has studied composition privately with British composer Peter Nickol (although I am largely self-taught). I have also studied piano (privately) with concert pianist Ekaterina Shetliffe. 
My music contains elements of impressionism, and musical modernism; I have also explored 12-tone composition.
For several years now, I have been developing my own composition technique, which focuses on the liminal area between stochastic and spectral music, which I intend to use in my future compositions.

Composers who have influenced me include Schumann, Chopin, Schoenberg, and Ligeti; however my formative musical inspiration is the music of Debussy.

*My music and poetry is copyrighted.*

A Butterfly Emoji, for chamber ensemble (2016, arr. 2023)

Utsyo Chakraborty