Anna Heller plays the original piano composition by Kevin Germain Tintinnabuli Etude Nr 1
Kevin about his work: “My ongoing set of Tintinnabuli etudes for piano are composed using Arvo Part’s eponymous method of approaching diatonicism and dissonance in a new manner. I don’t afhere strictly to Part’s rules for composing, but I rather use it as a guiding principle for sonic invention. To quote Elena Tokun, Tintinnabuli is a composition system that seeks to reduce all possible parameters of musical means to a certain basic level. ”
Kevin studied jazz guitar with Bob Ferrier, Turkish makam with Feridun Ozgoren and Frederick Stubbs, traditional Western classical music composition with William Maloof and Thomas McGah at Berklee College of Music. Worked with the late editor of Edizione Berben, Angelo Gilardino on engraving for guitar. Kevin currently studies with Rodney Sharman. 2024 Program Composition Fellow in the Alba Composition Program. His current project is a song cycle for soprano and piano on a set of alchemical texts.