Introduction and Variations

Introduction and Variations

for solo piano

composed 2016

MTNA Maryland State Winner (junior division)

Composer’s Note

A simple piece with a mellow introduction, followed by variations on a sweet and calming theme. Variations that listener’s through melancholy, quirkiness, exhilaration, triumph, and nostalgia.

This is my first composition for solo piano, my main instrument. Composed during my middle school years. I like the main melody theme so much (this was the first melody I wrote that my brother liked and siblings are hard to please!) that I created another piece with the melody: Bliss. This piece won the junior division at the state level for MTNA’s composition competition.

Later on decided to release it in a small EP of my very first piano works: Bliss 1620. 1620 because I wrote these pieces in the years 2016 and 2020.