Images (rev.2008)

Images (a revised version of "Japanese Gardens") is the second of a series of pieces that have a common motif. Growing up in Southern California with its desert and Asian influences prompted the composer to design a garden in her house in the hills with a river of rocks and boulders surrounded by grasses and green plants. "Images" evolved out of the designing of this space. Peaceful, melodic, melancholy and richly textural, this work is suited to compliment most any program. The marvelous piano trio, Alto Polis, have taken this work on as their own and perform it beautifully in many concert venues.

piano trio for violin, cello, piano