Opus number: op. 109
Title: Piano Etudes (Book 1)
- Veloce
- Doloroso, con rubato
- Scherzando
- Vivace
- Andante cantabile
- Risoluto
- Agitato
- Andante con moto
- Semplice
- Allegro con fuoco
- Allegro
- 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.