| Composer: | Mark Kilstofte |
| Publisher: | The Newmatic Press |
| Duration: | 00:08:45 |
| Instrumentation: | Violoncello solo |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Work Type: | Unaccompanied Works |
Written for and dedicated to the composer’s wife, this deeply moving solo work depicts the gradual unfolding of personality that occurred during and through their exchange of handwritten letters. Cast in expanding variations form, the piece is infused with the lyricism and polyphonic spirit of Bach’s cello suites.
composerbiography: MarkKilstofte
Mark Kilstofte is “admired as a composer of lyrical line, engaging harmony, strong, dramatic gesture, beautiful linear writing, expert text setting [and] keen sensitivity to sound, shape and event.” Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “exciting and beautiful, consistently gripping,” his music has garnered a growing list of accolades including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and several Copland House Residency Awards.
His music is heard regularly throughout North America and Europe and has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and From the Top. His chamber works have been performed by Alea III, Brave New Works, Contemporary Directions, Eighth Blackbird, Latitude 49, Music from Copland House, Musiqa, New Music Works, NODUS, Studio for New Music, TEMPO and Thornton Edge, and by the new music ensembles at Indiana, Duke, the University of Chicago, Texas and Florida State University, among others.
An experienced performer and conductor, Kilstofte studied composition at the University of Michigan. His music is published by Peermusic Classical and The Newmatic Press.