Work

piano, and processing
  • Commission: Sarah Nicolls
  • Premiere: March 6, 2009, Sarah NicollsGEMdays 2009, Phipps Concert Hall — Creative Arts Building — University of Huddersfield (Huddersfield, England, UK)

To Sarah Nicolls

“Telle est la vie des hommes, quelques joies très vite effacées par d’inoubliables chagrins… Il n’est pas nécessaire de le dire aux enfants…” — Le château de ma mère, Marcel Pagnol

Bull fighting disgusted me by principle, until I actually attended to a corrida: the smell of sweat, dust and blood, the cheers and the music, moreover the beauty of the ritual touched me deeply. And then, the bull in the arena as an allegory of life: one enters, is stirred up by the throes of destiny until one’s only possible end…

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