Sonatina for Piano

Written for Bradford Gowen, one of the first winners of the Kennedy Center Friedheim performance honors. An energetic and dynamic work from this young composer who is currently on the faculty of the University of Texas. Two vigorous outer movements enclose a slow, dreamy middle movement built on a hypnotic F octave ostinato pattern. The finale is a quick, intensely rhythmic pianistic display, which brings the work to a fiery close. For studios, colleges, libraries, professional. Medium difficult.