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In general, I enjoyed listening to this one very much. But I have to admit, the section in m. 11-14 confused me. I don't really understand why it's there. It's a nice rhythmic motif and could perhaps be used to greater effect in a piece of its own, but here it just seems to interrupt the flow of the motif you had already been building on. It does reappear at the end, but you could just as well have ended on the fermata in m. 23. I also think that Monarcheon is right that the rhythm could be notated more clearly. I hope you consider revisiting that motif for your next soliloquy, as I really do think you could develop it much more than you have here.

In the first movement, very nice how you introduce a countermelody towards the end to keep it from becoming too repetitious. The melody of the final movement is wonderful, especially when you judiciously add some close harmony in the accordion. The drum part is nice too. It's generally pretty subdued which I think adds to the relaxed feel of the music, the cymbals are used especially subtly for the most part. This is the first time I'm hearing you attempt a more jazzy sound. No lie, listening to this suite has me craving a coffee by the river on a cool night.

HI, This sounds very baroque to me. It reminds the partitas. I like the ddevelopment of the motive here and the way a single line fills the harmony. I'm not sure about the double stops, I always take care with that. I think that 5ths are hard, ... not sure. The pauses are effective.

For the record, in the last competition we also judged independently from one another without any influence from the other judges.

This suite sounds very "french", at leas how the movies showed us many times. It's delightful. Perhaps the second is a bit different but it fits well. It'g nice the counterpoint at the end of the first one.