Tristan de Liège - Selected Chamber Works

1.Tristan de Liège - The Raven (for Solo Harp) 07:22
2.Tristan de Liège - Evening Snow at Kanbara (for Solo Vibraphone) 07:28
3.Tristan de Liège - Les Marées (for Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Cello) 07:01
4.Tristan de Liège - String Quartet No. 2/ Les Quatre Étapes de la Vie/ I. L'Imitation 08:35
5.Tristan de Liège - String Quartet No. 2/ Les Quatre Étapes de la Vie/ II. La Decouverte de Soi 05:49
6.Tristan de Liège - String Quartet No. 2/ Les Quatre Étapes de la Vie/ III. L'Engagement 07:07
7.Tristan de Liège - String Quartet No. 2/ Les Quatre Étapes de la Vie/ IV. L'Héritage.wav 04:22

This is a collection of chamber music I've written over the last few years. Several of these pieces came out of classes I took at UC Riverside in 2018-2020 with Dana Kaufman on composition. I am greatly indebted to her mentorship, patience, creativeness, and lively energy for helping me along. String Quartet No. 2 came out of a collaboration with the Ann Arbor-based Room 1078. I had previously done string arrangements for a project Hanna Rumora was in, with singer-songwriter Rebecca Rosen, whom I had met in Detroit. She liked my arrangements and decided to reach out to ask me to write a string quartet. I decided I would write the bulk of it in Paris, where I was to spend several weeks with my girlfriend at the time in 2019. I wanted to capture a sense of the arc of moving from imitation, exploration and discovery in life to an engagement with traditions and systems of knowledge established in one's culture, to finally a consideration and meditation on one's heritage and the impact one's life had and will have once one is gone. This was definitely one of the most ambitious and difficult pieces I've ever written (maybe too difficult) - and though I was very trepidatious at the time of writing it, it was also at many times a great joy, when I felt it was really coming together. It was one of the first pieces I'd ever written that I deeply tried to imbue with a sense of playfulness and the experience of childhood.