Score: Transilient Fragments
For violin and piano [2007]
Duration: 5½ mins.
Written for Maria Oldak.
Notes:
Transilient Fragments grew from a series of tiny sketches and drafts that were borrowed from another recent work for piano, entitled Music of the Spheres. These tiny sketches - delicate and fleeting in persona - were reworked, extended, stitched together and sculptured into a volatile landscape where the material frequently transformations and shifts in character. Transilient is the leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
Transilient Fragments was awarded the Alan Bush Prize at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in March 2008, and was shortlisted for the instrumental solo/duo category in the British Composers Awards 2008, in association with BBC Radio 3.
© Patrick Nunn 2008
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