Piano Trio No. 1

This is a piece I wrote in two weeks for a summer young composer intensive at the Webster University Community Music School.

Piano Trio No. 1

This is pretty nice! I am not a huge fan of this kind of music, but reading along this one I did enjoy it very much. Well done. Nice performance too by the way. I don't think I would have liked it with only the midi sounds

Thanks! The performance was by a professional group called Trinity who was able to work with us multiple times throughout the intensive so we were able to hear actual musicians play it. Plus not everyone got to use Finale or Sibelius to compose on.

First of all, I like the piece a lot. Secondly, I'm assuming you don't play either piano, violin or cello. Fourths and fifths are the hardest intervals for any string instrument to play. They're very awkward.

The biggest concern I have is I think the writing for the instruments could have been made a little more idiomatic. Sure, it's playable. But, as a pianist, I look at that piano part and go "Ugh. Another boring piano part with ternary chords in both hands for most of the piece. That's no fun."

In addition, there aren't any triple stops, pizzicato, or tremolo for the violin and cello and no pizzicato. If it weren't for the occasional double stop, you could pick up nearly any instrument and play this piece. I could take your score and put it for two saxophones and piano with changing almost nothing. :P

I think that this piece does a lot of things great, but it could also do a lot of things great.