Dialogische Essenzen

It is a very special task to compose a work for people one knows. When the cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and the viola player Tomoko Akasaka asked me to compose a double concerto for them, I was delighted to accept. The two musicians, also a couple in real life, and I are linked in both musical and personal friendship.

My intention with this work was to permit two interesting but very dissimilar characters to speak through the voices of their respective instruments and therefore entitled my composition Dialogische Essenzen for viola and cello. I selected a string orchestra with percussion as the background for this fascinating dialogue. Tatjana Komarova