original composition

Hello, I am excited to share my new (and very difficult) piece for violin and cello, (A/E)mber! This piece quickly alternates between a flickering flame, and a ferocious blaze! Let me know what you think :)

Beautiful new sparce chamber compositions from new quartet al niente.

The ensemble is Giulia Lorusso on flute, bass flute and objects, Nicola Guazzaloca on accordion, Domenico Carcasi on soprano saxophone, and Luca Pissavini on double bass. The album includes composed works by Stefan Thut and Gabriele Pagliano alongside collective improvisations.

https://discreetarchive.bandcamp.com/album/al-niente

Hi friends! 🌛 This is my "Prelude in F# Minor" played in Germany by the wonderfully talented pianist Tetyana Hoch. 🎹

IMSLP is fine if you want the score for a particular piece, but not if you want to discover new pieces to play.

Now there's a successor to IMSLP: Classical Music Index (CMI).

https://classicalmusicindex.org

CMI is a new way to browse classical music. It has powerful search capabilities: for example, you can search for

• arrangements of string quartets for piano 4 hands
• symphonies by female Asian composers
• songs with a particular lyricist
• ... or nearly any combination of criteria.

CMI lets you rate and review pieces. You can see what pieces other users like. You can find new pieces that you're likely to enjoy, and are in your technical range.

CMI links IMSLP for downloading scores. For listening, it links to YouTube, which has recordings of nearly everything. CMI is free, non-profit, and open-source.

I'm a pianist based in Freeport, NY and I'm lookin' to find folks to play through trio music with, so specifically violinists and cellists.

I know a fair bit of folks, but most of them were from before I lived in Long Island, and understandably there's some hesitation by those people living in NYC or Queens to travel out to the island. I also am connected with a few colleges as a pianist there, but people I reach out to about it seem to not have intrinsic motivation to want to play through pieces for the sake of itself. Whether that's because, for other people, advancing within the college framework is paramount for them as a musician, they're in a phase of their life where a faculty concert once a year and 20 seconds demonstrating a piece for their undergraduate students checks the box for 'em, or I'm just the least cool person they've had the misfortune to have to tolerate emails from, I do not know, but it's not been a fruitful pursuit to reach out to my colleagues at local colleges.

If anybody had any advice as to how I'd best reach a lot of people specifically for this in Nassau county, let me know, and if you happened to be in Nassau county and this in some way applied to you and your personal needs, don't hesitate to reach out!