Five Penelope Studies for piano solo.

Five Penelope Studies (2023) were adapted from the themes of my chamber opera Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait. Each study explores a particular piano technique: arpeggiato passages, scalic passages, syncopation, chordal textures and legato playing, respectively. The narrative themes range from the regal Penelope, wife of Greek hero Odysseus, finding herself through her art (Studies 1 and 2), an exercise video (Study 3), ‘witches’ (Study 5), and the real story of a young Ukrainian woman’s persistent text messages to her father, a soldier, which go unanswered (Study 4).

Five Penelope Studies for piano solo

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Five Penelope Studies (2023) were adapted from the themes of my chamber opera Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait. Each study explores a particular piano technique: arpeggiato passages, scalic passages, syncopation, chordal textures and legato playing, respectively. The narrative themes range from the regal Penelope, wife of Greek hero Odysseus, finding herself through her art (Studies 1 and 2), an exercise video (Study 3), ‘witches’ (Study 5), and the real story of a young Ukrainian woman’s persistent text messages to her father, a soldier, which go unanswered (Study 4).

Five Penelope Studies for piano solo

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