inside voice is a single movement work and was composed in New York City in August 2015 for the Lyris Quartet as part of their Janácek Intimate Letters project. The work is dedicated to these exceptional musicians and people with admiration and affection. My response piece, inside voice, attempts to capture the energy I am trying to transmit to the listener in my music. The work is in many ways a reflection of the type of person I am; it has a clear focus at the onset, and is intent on a specific course only to become distracted, which itself ultimately comes into focus and develops a new interest in its own right. The conversation I have inside my head while composing is not unlike the way I would sit down and write a letter (something that I actually still do!). My “letter” here is the music being played, and it is a letter that is meant to be heard.
