All pieces on this recording were written within a five-year period, from 2006 to 2010.
Composition History
The Violin Futura Project features over thirty solo violin miniatures written for Piotr Szewczyk by composers from around the world, including his own compositions.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Violin Futura Project, initiated by Piotr Szewczyk, aims to sample the creative environment of our times by showcasing the wide variety of styles in 21st-century solo violin repertoire.
Compositional Technique
Nearly all the pieces on this album are programmatic, with titles that vividly express a tangible feeling, idea, or attitude.
Compositional Technique
The harmonic language across and within the pieces on this album varies, covering tonality/consonance, atonality/dissonance, modality, micro-tonality, and crossover pop/jazz harmony.
Performer Biography
Piotr Szewczyk, the Polish-born violinist on this album, has been a member of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's first violin section since 2007.
Interpretation
A unique aspect of the Violin Futura Project is that the performer, Piotr Szewczyk, becomes a 'meta-composer' by creating a specific narrative through the carefully chosen performance order of multiple miniatures.
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