This piece explores the various sounds and relationships between 3 disparate instruments utilizing alternative playing techniques such as singing while playing on the horn, clicking the tongue on the flute, and striking the double bass to create a percussive sound.
This trio is a tongue-in-cheek paraphrase of Richard Wagner’s famous and influential Prelude to the 1859 opera Tristan and Isolde using jazz harmonies.
Somnis (Dreams) is a collection of five works composed between 1991 and 1993. The important elements of these pieces are the timbre and the melodic line over a rich harmonic base.