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musical documentation
title: Materials
sub-title: for a cellist

year of composition: 2002
commissioned by: Jean-Guihen Queyras

duration: ca. 9 min.
premiere:
____concert: Jean-Guihen Queyras Recital “Heaven, Earth and Man”
____place: Sumida Tryphony Hall, Tokyo, Japan
____date: November 16, 2002
____musician: Jean-Guihen Queyras
instrumentation:
____violoncello

program note:
A human being has the outstanding capability to process both vague and exact information in the same level.
____This piece consists of two sections: 1) where specifications of pitch, duration and dynamics are described a little vaguely and 2) where these are described altogether precisely in the score. The music realized with the materials of these two poles reflects deeply the inner movement cycle and tendencies of information processing of the cellist. As musical motives, the surge, creaking, modulation and pulse of continuous energy are drawn.
____“Materials for a cellist” was commissioned by and written for cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.



prize:
____finalist
____at 2003 Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial


further performance:
____concert: Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial Finalist Concert
____place: Huey Recital Hall, the Moody Music Building, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, U.S.A.
____date: September 16, 2003
____musician: Craig Hultgren

____concert: Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial Finalist Concert
____place: Recital Hall of Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.
____date: September 9, 2003
____musician: Craig Hultgren

____concert: Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial Finalist Concert
____place: Reynolds-Kirschbaum Recital Hall, Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center,
________University of Alabama, Birmingham, U.S.A.
____date: July 27, 2003
____musician: Craig Hultgren

____concert: Jean-Guihen Queyras Recital
________“Intégrale des Suites de Bach et pièces contemporaines pour violoncelle seul”
____place: Téâtre de Châtelet, Paris, France
____date: December 2, 2002
____musician: Jean-Guihen Queyras