Sonata for Flute and Piano

Composer: PERKINSON, Coleridge-Taylor
  • The composer dedicated this sonata to flutist Harold Jones.1 Jones’s artist biography reports that he appeared as a soloist with the Symphony of the New World – which was co-founded and conducted by Perkinson.2
  • This piece premiered on August 3, 2003, at the 2nd International Symposium and Festival on Composition in Africa and the Diaspora, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Flutist Laura Falzon was the soloist.3

Movements 

  1. Andante moderato 
  2. Slowly, rubato 
  3. Rondo.4

Sources

  1. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Sonata for Flute and Piano (St. Louis, MO: Keiser Southern Music, 2008.
  2. Carman Moore and Anya Laurence, “Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor,” Grove Music Online (February 6, 2012), accessed December 28, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002219404.
  3. “Premieres,” Laura Falzon, accessed December 28, 2021, https://www.laurafalzon.com/premieres/.
  4. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Sonata for Flute and Piano (St. Louis, MO: Keiser Southern Music, 2008).

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