White Lace (2018)

I composed this work for Satoko Inoue, for a program of my piano music she performed in Tokyo. The piece features the highest range of the piano for much of the time. This beautiful aspect of the piano seems to me very transparent and pale, qualities which gave rise to the title. I also remember that the first time I saw Satoko perform, in Toronto, she was wearing a dress that looked to me like white lace.