Patchwork (2021) ~12’

[SOLO violin.SOLO violin.SOLO viola.SOLO cello.SOLO double Bass.strings]

Read and recorded by Kevin Zhu, Nathan Meltzer, Joshua Kail, Sterling Elliott, Nina Bernat, and the Juilliard Orchestra on May 4, 2021.

Patchwork, was written as the name suggests, in small unrelated pieces. Each fragment, some even only one measure long, was written separately from one another. As I assembled the piece, I found connections between disparate bits of material and created a form based on repetition. The orchestra and the string quintet play off of one another and against each other, cycling through varied forms of similar cells, shifting the color and timbre through which they are presented.