Fresh, eclectic, and athletic, Lora Al-Ahmad’s Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano eludes summary. A virtuoso pianist, Al-Ahmad’s music flows effortlessly from the musical rhetoric of the great chamber works of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while also featuring additive rhythms, novel textures, and a remarkably diverse (yet accessible) harmonic palette. Listeners may sense an affinity in sound with the music of Lowell Liebermann, Al-Ahmad’s teacher, even as the composer’s original personality emerges from the conversation between her many stylistic interests in this stunning and artistically demanding work.

Trio

for Bb Clarinet, Violin, and Piano

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