The Etudes Project Vol. 1: ICEBERG Curated by Jenny Lin NewMusicShelf www.newmusicshelf.com
Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................ v Performance Notes .................................................................................................. vii Drake Andersen: Walk (2018) ............................................................................... 1 Victor Báez: Étude No. 1: Corona (2018) .............................................................. 6 Stephanie Ann Boyd: Lilac (2018) ......................................................................... 12 from Flower Catalog Alex Burtzos: Should the Wide World Roll Away (2018) ....................................... 18 Yu-Chun Chien: To the Convergence (2018) ......................................................... 28 Derek Cooper: Etude No. 1: Unleashed (2018)...................................................... 31 Max Grafe: Accretion (2018) .................................................................................. 40 Will Healy: Etudes for Melancholy Robots: III (2018) ........................................... 44 Jonathan Russ: Knuckles (2018) ............................................................................ 56 Harry Stafylakis: Obstinata 1: Barbed Wire (2018)................................................ 64 from Piano Études, Book I About the Curator ................................................................................................... 77 About the Composers .............................................................................................. 78 Supplementary Material .......................................................................................... 88
I am deeply grateful to Alex Burtzos, founder of ICEBERG New Music, as well as all the com posers - Derek, Drake, Harry, Jon, Max, Stephanie, Viktor, Will, Yu-Chun - for taking on this project with me, and to Dennis from NewMusicShelf for his tremendous effort in giving this music a permanent home. — Jenny Lin
The Etudes Project is an ongoing exploration of the tradition and transformation of keyboard virtuosity in the piano repertoire. Inspired by my world tour of Philip Glass’ Piano Etudes with the composer himself, I created the Etudes Project with the idea juxtaposing new works alongside some of the most challenging works from the existing piano etudes repertoire.
v Introduction
To inaugurate this project, I have partnered with ICEBERG New Music, a collective of 10 com posers based in New York City, to create a program of new solo piano etudes that run the stylistic gamut from pop-inspired dance music to avant-garde constructions. Each of these pieces has been paired with an existing etude – by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Scriabin, Crawford Seeger, Messiaen, Ligeti, Glass, Chin, and Hosokawa, – inviting listeners to search for connections between virtuosic piano writing from the past and present. The entire collection of Etudes have been recorded and are available on the Sono Luminus label and all the new ICEBERG Etudes are published here by NewMusicShelf, making these exciting works available to future generations.
Allegro fantastico ( = 108) minimal pedal throughout (unless otherwise indicated) accel. Senza misura * 3 Begin very slowly and softly Single,long accelerando over all repeats (to each as at = 108) Repeat 3 or 4 times On repeats,can improvise variations in note order,create chords,etc (attacca) * Single,long cresc over all repeates from to Ped ad lib Atempo ( = 108) sub 4 Walk Copyright © 2018 by Drake Andersen All Rights Reserved DRAKEANDERSEN (2018) for Jenny Lin after Scriabin,Op 65 No 1
In stricttempo ( = 180) cresc. poco a poco to m. 29 absolutely no pedal throughout the entire piece 6 11 15 Étude No. 1 Copyright © 2018 Víctor Báez All Rights Reserved VÍCTOR BÁEZ (2018) Corona
Perfumed,translucent;fragments of memory ( = 92) (heavy pedal throughout) 4 7 10 Lilac Copyright © 2018 Stephanie Ann Boyd and FEMOIRE All Rights Reserved STEPHANIEANN BOYD (2018) Commissioned by and written for Jenny Lin from Flower Catalog
Furioso ( = 176) 3 sub. 6 blurry until m.9 9 non troppo use RH as needed simile Should theWideWorld Roll Away Copyright © Alex Burtzos 2018 All rights reserved ALEX BURTZOS (2018) for Jenny Lin (Étude)
= 60 leggiero (slowly→fast) cantabile To the Convergence Copyright © 2018 by Yu Chun Chien All Rights Reserved YU CHUN CHIEN (2018)
Aggressively Presto ( = 180) 3 6 loco 10 Etude No. 1 Copyright © 2018 Derek Cooper Music All rights reserved Unauthorized copies or reproductions are a violation of copyright law DEREK COOPER (2018) for pianist Jenny Lin Unleashed
= c.96 accel. = c.132 accel. = c.144 4 Suddenly slower ( = 76) 7 freely = 144 sub accel. 8 Etudes for Melancholy Robots: Copyright © 2018 by Will Healy All Rights Reserved WILL HEALY (2018) for Jenny Lin III Trains
Deep groove,in stricttime ( = 116) sempre no pedal 4 dry and even throughout 7 sub10 Knuckles Copyright © 2018 by Jonathan Russ All Rights Reserved JONATHAN RUSS (2018) composed for Jenny Lin and ICEBERG New Music for solo piano
Tempo I:Propulsive ( = 120) 3 L H 6 Obstinata 1: BarbedWire Copyright © 2018 Haralabos Stafylakis (ASCAP for the USA, SOCAN for the World) & Staves Obsidian Publishing (ASCAP) All rights reserved HARRY STAFYLAKIS (2018) to Jenny Lin from Piano Études,Book I