ÉTUDE

Frechilla-Zuloaga International Piano Prize winner Ryan Reilly performs "Étude: Shattered Hands" at the 2018 Bowdoin International Festival.

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WHITE SPACE

Performed as part of the 3rd Momenta Festival Michael Small (b. 1988): White Space - Meditation on Saenredam (2015). Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Dixon Place Theater, NYC recorded live 10-1-17 www.momentaquartet.com

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HOW FAIR, HOW STRANGE

Michiko Theurer performs my three miniatures from the multi-artform project Circling the Waves. This work was recorded in May 2017, and has since received five further performances, four with Michiko, and with Anite Stroh at Bowdoin.

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"THE SKY A SILVER"

In June 2016, Michael was a Composition Fellow at the Copland House’s “CULTIVATE” program mentored by Derek Bermel. While there he worked on a short piece for clarinet, violin, cello and piano called “the sky a silver” - a title from e.e. cummings.

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WHITE SPACE

Michael’s 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize resulted in a commission for a solo violin piece for BBC Music Magazine Award winner Fenella Humphreys, and premiered at the Presteigne Festival. This recording is from the fourth performance of the work, at the University of Liverpool. White Space has now been performed seven times in the UK and US, including a 2016 performance in the National Galleries in Edinburgh, in front of a painting by Saenredam who inspired the piece.

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HASEGAWA SKETCH

Andrew Zhou performs Hasegawa Sketch at Cornell. This piece was prompted by Hasegawa’s “Pine Trees” - which may be one of the earliest known paintings to feature solely a landscape, devoid of any figures.

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