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Opus number: op. 109

Title: Piano Etudes (Book 1)

  1. Veloce
  2. Doloroso, con rubato
  3. Scherzando
  4. Vivace
  5. Andante cantabile
  6. Risoluto
  7. Agitato
  8. Andante con moto
  9. Semplice
  10. Allegro con fuoco
  11. Allegro
  12. Decisivo

Written for: Angel Ramon Rivera

Date written: 2010

Length: 25 minutes

Premiere Performance: NEC’s Contemporary Festival, Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music, January, 2011, Students of A. Ramon Rivera.

Subsequent performances: May 19, 2011, Jonathan Bass in Brown Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston, Piano Etudes nos. 8, 10, 11, & 12

Program notes: Piano Etudes, Op. 109, are twelve etudes for piano that were first performed by Angel Ramon Rivera’s piano seminar in 2010 for NEC’s annual “Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music.” Later in 2010 pianist Jonathan Bass played the four of the etudes on a recital in NEC’s Brown Hall.