UC San Diego

Three Recitals is a thesis that discusses programming, technical, musical, and thematic issues involved in my three degree recitals for my DMA program in Contemporary Music Performance in Piano. My first recital consisted of music by Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, and Roger Reynolds, and explored issues of modernity, nature, machines, and mindfulness. My second recital explored music by Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, and Elliott Carter in a collaborative chamber program involving my friends and colleagues in the music program at UCSD. My final program involved music by Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Luciano Berio, and Ludwig van Beethoven and explored issues of meaning, structure, and surface detail. Together, my recitals constitute a principled exploration of important musical and social ideas through the lens of music for solo piano and chamber groups from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.