Water Dance

• This three-movement work for piano was published in 2008. 
• The work was commissioned by Signe Bakke and the Grieg Academy in Norway. Signe Bakke played the work’s premiere on May 14, 2011 at the AVGARDE Concert Series for New Music in Bergen, Norway. 

“The title, Water Dance, suggests cool, transparent water flowing freely. The work is a joyful dance with pleasant feelings of a pulse, where the water occasionally whispers to us through its shimmering play with light. The music presents a rich, flickering and changing texture: just as the water flows constantly and never the same phase.”

Karen Tanaka’s program notes for Water Dance

Movements

I. Very lightly with flow 
II. Very softly with shimmering light 
III. Very lightly, like a harp¹

1. “Karen Tanaka: Water Dance for piano,” European Music Distributors Company, accessed November 15, 2021, https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/karen-tanaka/works/water-dance/.