Details
Year: 2024
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation: English horn and string sextet
Premiere: 17 May, 2025, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Charlottesville VA by William Parrish, English horn, Marco Escobar and Alexander Chang, violins, Megan Gray and Matthew Hodge, violas, Lynanne Wilson and Madeline Southall, violoncellos
Morphéus (2024)
Program Notes
In April 2024, Bill Parrish suggested that I write something for English horn and strings. This idea captured my imagination and a proceeded to begin work on what would become Morpheús for English horn and string sextet. Named after the Greek god of dreams from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Morpheús explores the passage from consciousness into sleep and dreams, and the gradual return to consciousness.