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PIANO TRIO NO. 1, "Midsummer" (2020)
violin, cello, piano

  • Duration
    ​22 minutes
  • Premiere (virtual)
    August 19, 2020
    Midsummer's Music Festival
    Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
  • Commission
    Midsummer's Music Festival,
    Dr. James Berkenstock, Artistic Director, with
    Support from the MMG Foundation​

​PROGRAM NOTE
Commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the Midsummer’s Music Festival, my first Piano Trio presents my own unique take on the genre, while honoring the piano trio repertoire so powerfully championed by Midsummer’s Music. It was very important to me while composing this piece to consider the nature of the festival: their ardent dedication to unsung masterworks alongside canonical monoliths left an indelible impression on my imagination as this composition came into being. That being said, my goal while writing this piece was, as always, to compose something new that communicates to listeners and performers, leading each of them on their own, personal journey—a piece of music which has no agenda except to be itself, something with which everybody can engage and in which everyone can find meaning, a work that is treated as a living thing. After all, isn’t that what art is? Alive? As a professor once told me, “art is a verb.” I hope that through my own use of time-honored crafts like melody, dissonance, harmony, and counterpoint, this Piano Trio will inspire and affect all those involved in a surprising, energetic, organic, and uplifting way.

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—Jacob Beranek
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Purchase
​Score & Parts (digital download): $20.00
Score Only (digital download): $12.00
Score & Parts (hard copy): $40.00 + shipping
Score Only (hard copy): $20.00 + shipping
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