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Leap
for violin, viola, cello, and piano
Tina Davidson
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Leap
for violin, viola, cello, and piano
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Tina Davidson 2020
LEAP
For violin, viola, cello and piano
Program Notes
Leap, written for pianist Natalie Zhu and the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, was commissioned by Shoko Nioka, From the Middle English lepen and the O
to make a large jump or sudden movement, usually from one place to another. When the pandemic hit, we found ourselves having leapt into a world unrecognizable, but not without its gifts.
Leap
1. Uncertain Ground
2. Sudden Passage
TINA DAVIDSON is a highly regarded American composer who creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. Lauded for her authentic voice, The New York Times praised her “vivid ear for harmony and colors.” OperaNews called her works "transfigured beauty." Tina Davidson has been commissioned and performed by well-known ensembles such as National Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, OperaDelaware, VocalEssence, Kronos Quartet, Cassatt Quartet and Grammy award winner, Hilary Hahn.
Long-term residencies continue to play a major role in Davidson’s career. She was composer-in-residence at Fleisher Art Memorial (1998-2001) and ran the city- wide Young Composers program, teaching children to compose and perform music their own music. She was composer-in-residence with Opera-Delaware, Newark Symphony Orchestra and the YWCA, as part of Meet The Composer’s innovative "New Residencies" program. During this residency, she wrote the critically acclaimed full-length opera, Billy and Zelda, as well as created community partner programs for homeless women, and for students at a local elementary schools.
Ms Davidson’s talents have been recognized through the awarding of a number of grants and fellowships, including the prestigious Pew Fellowship, the largest such grant in the country for which an artist can apply. Her music is available on CRI, Mikrokosmik, and Opus One. Davidson’s second solo album, It is my Heart Singing, released by Albany Records, is performed by the Cassatt Quartet. Most recently, Hilary Hahn released a second recording of the work she commissioned from Davidson, Blue Curve of the Earth, on her new album Retrospective (Deutsche Grammophon).
Tina Davidson's work and musical vision is perhaps best stated by Peter Dobrin of the Philadelphia Inquirer: her music "is rhythmically driving, with fascinatingly simple yet lovely harmonic changes. The composer makes music satisfying by carefully managing tension and release ... it's being able to bring a sense of beauty and emotion to a strict organizational structure, a rarity in any age.”
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For more information, please contact: BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON MUSIC Web Page: http://www.tinadavidson.com
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1. Uncertain Ground
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Please note: In first movement, if have a melody, make it more vocal, almost middle easternGrace notes - bend rather than snap. Glisses a bit exaggerated, out of tune a bit.
© 2020, Tina Davidson (Beyond the Blue Horizon Music, BMI) Published by Just a Theory Press, www.justatheorypress.com
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