Epitaphium

Epitaphium is the result of the composer’s disturbed emotions following the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The following day, while the world was still in shock and disbelief, the composer embarked on this emotionally-charged quartet which he dedicated to the victims of this historic tragedy. This quartet is arguably one of the composer’s most daring works with prolonged passages of dissonance (making use of quarter-tones practically throughout the work) and extremely slow tempi that contrast starkly to the fragmented aleatoric sections. Nevertheless of the technique employed, this work still contains the composer’s typical touch of contemplative spirituality: that inner path that he follows in search of the ultimate, immaterial, metaphysical truth.

Instrumentation:

2 Violins, Viola & Violincello