Piano Concerto

For piano and orchestra - Proceed to purchase if you would like to buy a study score.   Conductor's Score and Performance Parts for RENTAL ONLY. Please send an email to info@aphramusic.com to request a rental application form. Approximate Duration: 27' INSTRUMENTATION     2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo) 2 oboes2 Bb clarinets2 Bassoons4 horns in F3 C trumpets 2 trombonesbass trombone tubapercussion (3 players) timpaniharppiano solostrings PROGRAM NOTES Writing this concerto was an especially poignant experience, as the piano was my first instrument and the one on which I pounded out my first compositions. The concerto evolves through three distinct stylistic soundworlds. The opening movement has an almost Renaissance transparency, pairing the soloist’s progressively more ornamented 4-part chorale with bard-like strumming pizzicato and reedy winds. After an invention-like cadenza for the soloist, the brass enters with much fanfare as the pianist reaches the lowest, most sonorous depths o