Fantasy Trio (Winner of Morton Gould award and Pikes Peak Young Composers award)

Hello everyone, I am an avid 15 year old composer and for my first post on this board I am showing you guys my favorite and most successful score. It is a trio for flute, cello, and piano and it is written in atonal style. Recently this piece won a Morton Gould ASCAP foundation grant as well as a Pikes Peak Young composers award. I would like to hear your comments.

Here is a link for the mp3

Fantasy Trio

Thanks.

I have attached the score

a quick note so you can correct your score: it's viol-O-ncello, not viol-I-ncello.

and both the flute and cello go above the piano part in a chamber setting.

I enjoyed it! You show a lot of maturity in your treatment of rhythms as motives, and contrapuntal ideas. It's very detailed, and pretty well notated. I do worry about a few things such as the pianist reaching into the piano and out again in enough time. Have you had a performance, or chance to hear it at least being read?

Nice, I'm not a fan of atonal music but I can see you put a lot of work into this. I also won the pikes peak young composers competition this year, but in a different category, and I guess a different age group. *High fives ttmaster.* I guess you don't live in Colorado, but you shoulda come down here for the concert, ya bastard. You would have gotten the distinct honor of hearing me try to sing. Anyways, congrats. Next year we are in the same category! (You are going down.)

I don't think I can objectively comment. I think the profusion of tuplets are forced/pasted on/unconvincing, and I absolutely despise the constant annoying grace notes in the flute part.

I'll leave it at that. Congratulations on winning!

I think the profusion of tuplets are forced/pasted on/unconvincing, and I absolutely despise the constant annoying grace notes in the flute part.

Flint, both the tuplets and the grace notes were inputted for textural purposes. In much modern flute music, wide dissonant octave leaps of grace notes are used in excess and I too wished to use this effect that I enjoy. This effect provides a somewhat otherworldly effect that I felt could be benefited from in a "Fantasy." Also, the various types of tuplets used maintain a constant imbalance of rhythm which would also provide to the dream like ambiance of the piece. Anyway, i am grateful that you listened to the piece and I thank you for commenting.

Hello everyone, I am an avid 15 year old composer and for my first post on this board I am showing you guys my favorite and most successful score. It is a trio for flute, cello, and piano and it is written in atonal style. Recently this piece won a Morton Gould ASCAP foundation grant as well as a Pikes Peak Young composers award. I would like to hear your comments.

Here is a link for the mp3

Fantasy Trio

Thanks.

I have attached the score

I really liked it for a while but it lost me as it began to resemble, rather than atonal music, a pastiche of tonal excerpts.

It felt as though you put in less effort into the latter parts which is a shame given the quality of the earlier parts. Good effort overall, and very imaginative.

I really liked it for a while but it lost me as it began to resemble, rather than atonal music, a pastiche of tonal excerpts.

It felt as though you put in less effort into the latter parts which is a shame given the quality of the earlier parts. Good effort overall, and very imaginative.

Thanks for commenting. I am actually in the process of revising the piece and I will have your comments in mind.

Nice, I'm not a fan of atonal music but I can see you put a lot of work into this. I also won the pikes peak young composers competition this year, but in a different category, and I guess a different age group. *High fives ttmaster.* I guess you don't live in Colorado, but you shoulda come down here for the concert, ya bastard. You would have gotten the distinct honor of hearing me try to sing. Anyways, congrats. Next year we are in the same category! (You are going down.)

What events do u plan on submitting pieces to?

Another critique! Yay! As I said before on your Concerto for Orchestra piece:

Justin, again I thank you for the review.

Wow I actually won the same award for a string quartet I wrote back in 2006...but that was a category all in itself. Nice work, by the way, I enjoyed your mixture of the early and later 20th centuries. Something about the flute part was flimsy to me though...it's looseness bugged me, kind of like Carter's music does, but other than that I thought you achieved quite a texture as the cello and piano entered near the beginning. Nice work, nice work.

Justin - Great review and story. Hope you check one of my pieces (trying to finish a set of variations for clarinet and waiting to hear how performable one variation will be as it is composed of many multiphonics.)

Multiphonics don't work well at all on the clarinet.