Soi (2017)

INSTRUMENTATION
solo violin
DURATION
ca. 9′
WRITTEN FOR
Peter Sheppard-Skærved
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PROGRAMME NOTE
The piece revolves around a few cantabile melodic fragments, manifesting in two or even three voices at once, gradually intensifying and transforming into a soaring singing line at the very top register of the violin, until descending again. Soi in Finnish, means ‘rings’, ‘sounds’, ‘echoes’.

PERFORMANCES
25 APRIL 2018 (✦ Sweden premiere)
Peter Sheppard Skærved
Musikhögskolan Liljeforssalen, Malmö, Sweden

15 FEBRUARY 2018 (✦ World premiere)
Peter Sheppard Skærved
St Vedast Foster Lane, London,United Kingdom

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