Lamarck
Solo Piano
Christopher Rogerson
Centennial Commission
About
This is a short and simple prelude as a memory of my childhood home of Buffalo, New York. I wanted to write something childlike, sweet, and sentimental; something I might have written on the piano I grew up playing years ago. My deepest thanks are to Curtis for commissioning this short work, for their support of me as a student, alumni, and now as current faculty, and to my dear friend Yekwon Sunwoo for his beautiful and dedicated performance of this piece.
Performance
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Lamarck |
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Duration
03:00 |
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Commissioning Year
2024 |
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Premiere
January 31, 2025 |
Artists
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Christopher Rogerson Composition
Chris Rogerson has been hailed by the Washington Post as a “confident, fully-grown composing talent,” and by the New York Times as a “confident new musical voice.” His music has been performed by the Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Milwaukee, New Jersey, New World, and San Francisco symphonies and the Buffalo Philharmonic; and in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, and Symphony Center in Chicago. Notable premieres include works for Yo-Yo Ma and for the Attacca, Brentano, and Dover quartets. Mr. Rogerson served as composer in residence for the Amarillo Symphony from 2014 to 2018 and was named the first-ever composer in residence of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in 2020.
Mr. Rogerson has won awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Copland House, Aspen Music Festival and School, ASCAP, BMI, and the Theodore Presser Foundation. He is represented by Young Concert Artists and attended the Curtis Institute of Music, the Yale School of Music, and Princeton University.
Mr. Rogerson joined the Curtis faculty in 2016.
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Yekwon Sunwoo Piano
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