This was my final project for Violet Archer when I was an undergraduate. Don't turn up your nose - sometimes student works are quite good. This one certainly is challenging, more so for the cello than for the piano, I think, since I wrote the piano part for myself to play (that being a requirement of the Music Department), and my pianistic skills are less than virtuosic.

    In style it is quite dissonant and heavily 12-tone influenced, though the last movement is jaunty and more accessible and the second movement was written with Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" in mind. It exists in hand-copied manuscript only at this point.

    You can hear the performance given by Peter Rudolfi and myself at my graduating recital by clicking below. The playing is spirited, but the recording is not very good, still the essence comes through.