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String Quartet #1 by Louis Chiapetta.
About Me
I was born in White Plains New York in 1989. I started my formal composition studies in 2003 with Gordon Minette at Mannes College of Music’s preparatory division. In my second year of study I became a member of the honors program for composition in the preparatory division, and received a scholarship. During two of my four years in the preparatory division at Mannes I was a member of the New York Youth Symphony’s “Making Score” program for young composers. This Fall I will be a freshman at Mannes College where I will be studying with Keith Fitch. I am currently working on two projects: a series of three “Image” for solo piano of which two are completed, and a chamber work for clarinet, cello, viola, and two percussionists.
Age: 18
About the Piece
My second string quartet was written when I was sixteen. The piece is the last work I produced in my earliest compositional style which was heavily influenced both harmonically and structurally by composers such as Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Berg. The two movement form I used for the work was inspired by Shostakovich’s twelfth string quartet, as was the use of both tonal material and material taken from the tone row employed in the work.
Works
- String Quartet No. 1 (2003-2004)
- Piano Trio (2004) – Piano, Violin, Cello
- Two Fantasies for Piano (2004)
- String Quartet No. 2 (2005)
- Concert for Piano and Winds (2005-2006) – Piano, Clarinet, Flute, Bassoon
- Image for solo piano (2006-2007)
- 1 – The Lurking Primordial Visage (2006)
- 2 – Autumn Dream (2006)
- 3 – No Way Out (2007) – premiere in November 2007
- When I Have Fears for piano and violin (2007)
- Chamber work for cello, viola, clarinet, and percussion (premiere February 2008)