Melia Watras

MELIA WATRAS: ECHO
for violin solo (2020)

World Premiere: Rachel Lee Priday, violin; October 28, 2020, Seattle, WA

Duration: 6:01

Program Notes:
As I began composing cadenzas to Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61, at the request of violinist Rachel Lee Priday, my superb colleague at the University of Washington, I had in my mind a set of cadenzas that, with slight modification, could also stand alone as a single piece for a violinist to perform outside of the context of the concerto. Echo for violin solo arose from this idea.

Many thanks to Rachel, to whom my cadenzas and Echo are dedicated to, in friendship and admiration.

—Melia Watras