for flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano
Memories was premiered on January 13, 2017, at the Concert Hall of the Children’s Music and Choral School in Petrozavodsk, Russia, as part of The Invisible in Silence, a concert of contemporary music. Performed by the Dialog Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Program notes
The way of life of a person living in the age of new technologies is undergoing radical change, while the abundance of information available to us creates an acute sense of the transience of life. In such a world, one of the purposes of music may be to temporarily remove us from this turbulent flow and allow us to pause.
Memories is a meditation on this idea: an attempt to stop and focus our attention on something that, at some point, we failed to notice. This idea informs the work’s static dramaturgy, which is built upon the continuous variation of an initially established melodic pattern.
Duration: 10′
Performance History
- January 13, 2017 — World Premiere: Invisible in Silence, a concert of contemporary music, Concert Hall of the Children’s Music and Choral School, Petrozavodsk, Russia. Performed by the Dialog Contemporary Music Ensemble.
- October 29, 2017 — A Musical Journey: From the Baroque to the Present Day, State Museum of Music, Sheremetev Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Performed by Alexey Uzhegov (flute), Arseny Kopnyov (violin), Arseny Yuriev (viola), Artyom Tamanyan (cello), and Alexey Logunov (piano).