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Susan Kander — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:05:39 +0000

Hermestänze rises beautifully to the challenge of compressing
a lot of musical information into a small space…swift, evocative
pencil sketches. […] A Garden’s Time Piece…is equally lovely
and evanescent – most of the songs take no longer than a minute
and leave you at once satisfied and waiting for more.

— Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle

New Album of Works for Violin

Susan Kander — Mon, 15 May 2017 01:53:11 +0000

MSR Classics has just released this album featuring three wonderful musicians: Jacob Ashworth, violin; Lee Dionne, piano, and Jessica Petrus, soprano. I am immensely honored to have worked with these extraordinary artists.

The title work, commissioned by Jacob Ashworth for violin and piano, is a 30-minute dramatic cycle based on the multi-faceted Greek god Hermes. Solo Sonata for violin-viola-violin was my first commission immediately following 9/11/2001; structured as a “feast-famine-feast” cycle, it features virtuosic outer movements for solo violin with a deeply felt Lament between them. A Garden’s Time Piece is a brief cycle for violin and soprano setting poems of Leslie Laskey.

Available wherever you buy or download music. MSR Classics | Amazon

Program Notes Hermestanze | Solo Sonata | A Garden’s Time Piece

Sample the Album

The News From Poems

Susan Kander — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 02:02:44 +0000

More details are available here: The News from Poems – ensemble chamber opera 2015, 110′