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World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Duo Concertante

Mar. 01, 2019

World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's <em>Duo Concertante</em>

On March 23, violist James Dunham and bassist Deborah Dunham give the world premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Duo Concertante at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Pierre Jalbert describes his work:

Duo Concertante contains five brief movements of contrasting character.  The first movement functions as a short prelude, with the viola and bass combining to form alternating high and low harmonies and trading off solo lines. The second movement is a playful scherzo, played pizzicato by both instruments, while the third movement is the central, lyrical movement of the work, with undulating natural harmonic tremolos and a rhythmically driving interruptive middle section.  The fourth movement consists almost entirely of quickly bowed natural harmonics with fleeting rhythmic tremolos on both instruments. The final movement contains rapidly driving music in constant motion, interrupted twice by cadenza-like free sections which are non-synchronized.  The two instruments then come together for the final push to the end. 


Earlier this month, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Jung-Ho Pak, performed the Asian premiere of the first movement, I: Ice, from Jalbert's Fire and Ice on March 1 at the Grand Hall at the University of Hong Kong.

On April 10, Pierre Jalbert’s Piano Quintet will be performed by the Amernet String Quartet at the XXII New Music Miami Festival at Florida International University. Listen to that work below: 


(Piano Quintet/Pierre Jalbert/Jupiter String Quartet/Bernadette Harvey, piano)


To learn more about Pierre Jalbert, please visit schott-music.com 


Pierre Jalbert
Duo Concertante (2018)
for viola and doublebass

Fire and Ice (2007)
for orchestra
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20'

Piano Quintet (2017)
19’

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