Christin Schillinger and Jed Moss perform Jenni Brandon’s DOUBLE HELIX for bassoon and piano during the International Double Reed Society Conference in 2016
Double Helix for Bassoon and Piano by Jenni Brandon appears on this new CD “Bassoon Unbounded” performed by Christin Schillinger, bassoon and Jed Moss, piano on the MSR Classics label.
Double Helix was commissioned in 2014 by bassoonist Christin Schillinger to premiere and perform with Jed Moss on piano. This work is inspired by the sculpture of the same name by Long Beach, California sculptor Susan Hawkins. This sculpture (pictured on the cover of the CD) depicts two separate figures dancing around each other, weaving their stories together, but never touching. I loved the idea of using terms that are frequently used to describe dance and began to see the curves and lines and unique topography of these sculptures as fluid and moving. The bassoon and the piano become these two dancers, gracefully moving across a stage to tell the story of this beautiful sculpture. In one movement, the work has several sections:
Prelude: Intertwine
Entrechat
Divertissement: Gentle Beauty
Soar
Postlude (Epilogue)
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PROGRAM
MICHAEL VAN BEBBER (b.1976)
THREE MINIATURES for bassoon and piano (2004)
Anxiously
Dogmatically
Joyously
JENNI BRANDON (b. 1977)
DOUBLE HELIX for bassoon and piano (2015)
Prelude: Intertwine
Entrechat
Divertissement: Gentle Beauty
Soar
Postlude (Epilogue)
KYLE HOVATTER (b. 1986)
DIAPHONIC for bassoon and tape (2014)
ADRIENNE ALBERT (b. 1941)
SWING SHIFT for bassoon, piano and percussion (2013)
DAMIAN MONTANO (b. 1976)
THREE NIGHT PIECES for bassoon and piano (2012)
Incantation
Mysterious Elixir
Witching Hour
GEOFFREY BURCH (b. 1979)
VICTORIA ROOMS for improvised bassoon and tape (2015)
JOHN STEINMETZ (b. 1951)
GOODBYE, OLD PAINT for bassoon and piano (2000)