fiddle
Information
fiddle (2014)
for String Quartet
Score published by United Music & Media Publishers (Belgium)
ca. 8 min.
Awards and Honors
First Prize, 2016 Malta International Composition Competition
2017 SEM Emerging Composers Workshop Call for Scores
Program Note
J.J. Grandville, also known as Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, is a 19th Century French caricaturist. His notoriety is not high, but I believe no one will be spared of bewilderment after seeing his dreamy works. Inspiration for fiddle came on me after seeing Grandville’s work Apocalypse du ballet, which expresses continuous patterns of transformative objects in a sense of disorienting beauty. Repetition of a single motif is the key concept of fiddle. By obsessively repeating a pattern, a slightest adjustment in the detail or a sudden silence can act as an accent. In 2016, "fiddle" won First Prize in Malta International Composition Competition, and was published by United Music & Media Publishers (Belgium).
Past Performances
June 22, 2014 (World Premiere)
Chatori Shimizu Portrait Concert 2014
Ryogoku Monten Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Quartet Pienno: Kaho Orido (Vn. I), Kasumi Sakakibara (Vn. II), Vla. Kengo Naito, Vc. Akira Sato)
April 16, 2016 (US Premiere)
Project ONKYO
Issue Project Room Space, New York, NY
Mivos Quartet: Olivia De Prato (Vn. I), Marco Fusi (Vn. II), Victor Lowrie (Vla.), Mariel Roberts (Vc.)
May 15, 2016 (Puerto Rico Premiere)
De Japón A Puerto Rico
Conservatorio de Música, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Cuarteto de Cuerdas Areté: Danira Rodriguez (Vn. I), Nayomi Lozano (Vn. II), Miguel Gonzales (Vla.), Diego F. Marrero (Vc.)
Feb. 16, 2017
New Works by Emerging Composers
Willow Place Auditorium, New York, NY
S.E.M Ensemble: Pauline Kim Harris (Vn I), Robyn Quinnett (Vn. II), Bryla-Weiss (Vla.), Caleb van der Swaagh (Vc.)
Oct. 7, 2019
28th International Review of Composers
Composers' Association of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Tijana Milošević (Vn I), Ksenija Milošević (Vn II), Boris Brezovac (Vla.), Nemanja Stanković (Vc.)

World Premier of fiddle (2014, string quartet), Ryogoku Monten Hall, Tokyo