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These 2 pieces for Piano Trio were written for the Moscow Conservatory's 2018 International Winter School, along with the Etude-Tableau in B-flat minor, Op. 6. The musicians who performed it were Mikhail Akinfin and Alexandra Parfeneva, from the Piano Quartet performance, with of course myself at the piano. I might combine these 2 pieces (not conjoin them!), and possibly add more movements to make a full Piano Trio, with a possibly programmatic element to it. Here are the performances on Youtube: Nocturne in C major, Op. 5: Romance in E major: I hope you all enjoy. 🙂 Theo

Not letting me open Noteflight without an account so you're going to have to bear with me. First, and this is just personal philosophy: don't try to make an audience hear anything in your piece. It'll just lead to you being disappointed. I'm going to focus on one aspect of the composition that gets to me, which is pretty much most of your writing for the left hand. Your B section has some good rhythmic intrigue but places like 1:38 are completely static and uninteresting because of the lack of color your give your left hand. There are also so many octaves in this section without use of inner compound melody that a lot of the rhythmic intrigue introduced in the right hand is mitigated. Another example is the end, where you have these really big octaves in the low register and really high stuff in the right hand. This stratification increases the range, but none of it is filled in with counterpoint or inner voice chords making it sound ironically empty. You can use your left hand stuff to greater effect by not being so functionally fixated on its "lower" tendencies.

I wrote this as a short loop. It doesn't really have an ending. I hope it captures the uneasiness you might feel in a dark forest. I always compose using an algorithmic process. I hope you enjoy the results.

The nocturne has been made into a score video by thenameisgsarci! Now you can see the score! 😄