Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano

Instrumentation: Flute, Violin, and Piano

World Premiere: March 2011; Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music

Duration: 10 minutes

Program Notes:

Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano in three movements

I wrote Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano in the winter of 2010 after my grandmother and my beloved pug dog, Cody, both passed away within a month of each other. The piece is dedicated to both of them.

The third movement is most clearly inspired by the death of my relatives, but I actually had heard the third movement in my head for nearly a year or two before finally writing it. My relatives’ passing was the catalyst that finally caused me to write down the movement.

I wrote the third movement first, originally thinking the piece would be one single contained movement. After I finished composing the third movement, however, I felt the piece was not finished and kept expanding till I wrote the present three-movement piece.