Suite for Solo Saxophone

ORCHESTRATION Alto saxophone

DURATION 10 min

WORLD PREMIERE December 17 2015, Amanda Heim, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Movements

1. Prelude

2. Gigue

3. Sarabande

4. Postlude

Composer note

My first work for an unaccompanied melody instrument, I structured this suite in a quasi-Baroque style. Each movement marries intellectual, mathematical constructs with strong emotional expressions, stretching and bending time in different landscapes while re-purposing traditional melodic materials in new ways.

— Avner Dorman