Nachtbilder
Night Pictures

Instrumentation: Piano
Length: 9'15"
​Composed:  Spring-Summer 2015
Premiered:  20.October.2015 by Dr. Elaina Burns
Dedication:  Dr. Elaina Burns, Laura Bee, and Stephanie Cooper

1. Der Mond
2. Warmer Wind
3. ​Die Himmelskörper

1. The Moon
2. Warm Wind
3. ​Celestial Spheres

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This piece was written to thank Dr. Elaina Burns for premiering three of my pieces, but eventually came to include my fantastic classmates/colleagues Laura Bee and Stephanie Cooper for their heart-stopping premier of my Fantasia on Slane.  If the title hasn’t given it away, each of the three movements is a different “picture” of an element of nighttime.  The first movement is a picture of the moon, the middle movement is a picture of a midnight spring wind, and the last movement a picture of the stars, both from a distance and up close.