Commissions
Chamber Music
2026
Jennifer Higdon: Art Measures for Violin and Piano
Violin and Piano
A three movement work for violin and piano as the embodiment of all possible emotions during the creation of art.
see moreMy Childhood Memories consists of three movements: 1) Flying a Kite, 2) Throwing Sand
Firecrackers, 3) Playing Sticking Plasters. The three popular children games played in my childhood left such deep impression on me with love and memory that I wanted to reflect the scenes and my happiness in the violin solo suite.
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Unconsciously, hints of this Bach
Sonata, Beethoven Opus 109 Piano Sonata (Movement III), and Bach Prelude 854 are
intertwined into the subconscious of this piece’s musical language.
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This work is about the idea of thresholds. It begins in stillness, passes through a kind of collapse
of reality in a musical way, and at some point the instruments fall silent and only breath remains.
It ends in suspension — inside the instant before whatever happens next.
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The most meaningful Jewish tradition for me is the obligation to see oneself in another’s circumstance.
This tradition is especially prominent on the subject of the Ger—the “stranger” or “immigrant.” Jews are
reminded by their holy texts and teachers to show kindness to the stranger.
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In Under the shimmering aspens, imagine you are sitting under an aspen tree on a sunny day and
looking up into the golden leaves above you. Sometimes the leaves are motionless when there is
no breeze, sometimes they quietly shimmer when there is a gentle gust, and sometimes they are
quaking violently in a strong wind.
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In this piece, Gabriella repeats and manipulates the
owl’s calls, phasing pitch and speed over time to create a mind-bending realization
of, well, a quartet of Owls. Also hidden in the piece are subtle references to Haydn’s
String Quartet Op. 33, No. 3, nicknamed “the Bird”,
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This brief quartet explores the paradox of silence: how it both
soothes and suffocates, veils and reveals. The music captures
the whiplash of words withheld at crucial moments, when fear
overwhelms the impulse to speak.
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Flare and Answer is a brief but driving work inspired by the trance traditions of Moroccan Gnawa music
and the powerful voices of Khadija El W arzazia and B’
net Houariyat. Drawing on the blues scale filtered
through the modal colors of maqam Rast, the piece weaves quick-paced motifs into a dialogue of call
and response, echoing the communal exchange at the heart of its inspiration.
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The title Impromptu seemed almost inevitable, since this
is a short, highly pianistic piece that includes controlled ex
tempore aspects from both the performer and the computer.
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"Much of A Series of Interdependencies was written in response to unease and anger, but all of it is infused with the hope that practicing vulnerability, intimacy, and mutuality with one another alongside radical heterogeneity might be a way into some better, a more utopian vision of the world." - Conrad Tao
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"I love music which is in conversation with itself, and in variations with sand in the gears the cellist gets to be all the voices in a racous argument." - Paul Novak
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This is the sister piece to my previous violin solo, "...your heart dreams of spring" (2020). Both works sing joy an effervescence despite struggle. The full sentence "And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring" is taken from Kahlil Gibran's poem "On Death" from his seminal 1923 book, The Prophet.
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Making Hay inspires positivity—at least while the sun shines. The trio begins with the violin playing a gentle melody reminiscent of a traditional British folk tune. Presently, the music is infused with the spirit of Sebastian Bach in a contrapuntal exchange between all three instruments as the melody is sequenced and extended, gradually incorporating bolder harmonies.
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Jarba, Mare Jarba is a popular traditional Hungarian-Romani folk song. Its text speaks of the longing to return to one’s homeland. - Stacy Garrop
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smooth | pluck | whirl is a study in contrast and continuity for unaccompanied violin, unfolding across three
distinct yet interdependent sections.
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