Description
Imaginary Garden
I. snow-in-summer
2013 (3‘15)
für Erhu und Klavier
for erhu and piano
UA/WP: 6. December 2013, Vancouver B.C., Canada,
Corey Hamm, piano, Nicole Li, erhu
Imaginary Garden, a sonic gardens of discovery, growth, imagination and recollection, is a
series of short chamber pieces written for unusual instrumental combinations, with the intention
of exploring musical gestures with motion, images, and emotion. Imaginary Garden I.
snow-in-summer is written for a cross-cultural project in which Nicole Li and Corey Hamm
in Vancouver have commissioned over twenty Canadian and Chinese composers to write new
works for erhu and piano.