Originalemelodie (2010) for solo piano

by Rolf Hind

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This was the world premiere of the piece, given by Rolf Hind as part of the New Works Festival at Southampton University in 2010.

I originally wrote this piece for David Owen Norris to play in Taiwan, but he subsequently rejected it.

In structuring the various quasi-transcriptional materials of the piece (which include Barraque, Ives, Mahler, Mendelssohn), I tried to proceed intuitively with regard to the ordering and connecting of the sections.

I performed this piece myself, at the "Composers at the Piano" concert in Southampton in 2012-- the video is on YouTube.

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released February 19, 2018

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George Holloway West District, Taiwan

George Holloway’s music is rooted in the modernist tradition of Western art music, with specific affinities to New Complexity and British experimentalism. Parallel to these affinities, Holloway’s music also draws deeply upon the Anglican choral tradition and, increasingly over the last decade, to traditional musics of China and Taiwan. George composes for Western and Chinese instruments and voice. ... more

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