James 3

A stunning and challenging tour-de-force for piano, this re-telling of the Orfeo/Eurydice myth is re-located to Southeast Asia. The music references Muslim chant, pentatonic scales, Balinese dancing, and

"Piano Sonata No.1 was composed in the early 1960’s. My teacher, Tibor Serly, with whom I studied for eight years, one day suggested it was time for me to write a sonata. The suggestion was a little

Set in 12/8 in the classic Rondo form, this piece has sixteenth note passages and arpeggios, quite a few accidentals, and some tricky passages which put it in the moderately difficult to difficult