This spring, I wrote a piece for the wonderful pianist, Luciane Cardassi. It is the second piece I’ve written this year that has been inspired by my recent research into my family history.


The piece is dedicated to my grandma. It can be played with recordings of poems written by my grandfather, Jan Vladislav, between the movements. They are some of his last poems, and I chose the ones that related somehow to my grandmother. This is how we played it both at The Banff Centre, where I wrote it, and here in Montreal at the Sonnez-Ici Festival.


You can listen to a recording of it here.