Moon Diamonds : 3 Haikus For Solo Piano

Moon Diamonds, 3 Haikus is a very attractive medium level suite, written in a traditional and choreographic style. Born in 1954, Colette Mourey is an associate university professor, a guitarist and a pianist, a writer and a composer. For her musical research, she starts from atonal counterpoint, to develop a new musical system called "hypertonality," based on spiral scales (in amplitudes higher than the octave), allowing the reintroduction of "natural consonances" within a contemporary language. In 2012, she won the First Prize of the International Competition for Instrumentalists and Composers "Music and Earth" in Sofia (Bulgaria). From 2012 to 2014, she has been awarded by the IBLA Foundation for her works "Estudios Festivos"; "Homenaje a Manuel Ponce" (guitar) in 2012, "Variations in Memoriam" (guitar) in 2013, and "Bucoliques" (harpsichord) in 2014. She won several mondial selections, from "Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica," for "Abacus" (guitar), "Quintetto La Maestria" (winds and piano), "3 Variations sur l'Hymne Européen" (winds and piano) ...

Author: Colette Mourey

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jan 29, 2019

Number of Pages: 30 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1795409991

ISBN-13: 9781795409995