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'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Gabriel Jackson

Piano Sonata

Forces or Category: Solo piano

for solo piano
Utilizing the standard 3 movement sonata outline, Jackson employs a variety of textures to great effect in this piece. In the first movement alone, the music employs homophonic, unison, canonic and monophonic textures. The work is technically demanding and moves through a variety of moods and tempos.

'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Piano Sonata

Gabriel Jackson

Description

for solo piano
Utilizing the standard 3 movement sonata outline, Jackson employs a variety of textures to great effect in this piece. In the first movement alone, the music employs homophonic, unison, canonic and monophonic textures. The work is technically demanding and moves through a variety of moods and tempos.

Programme Notes:

"All music is about other music". It was Louis Andriessen, I think, who said this - it is certainly the sort of thing he would say! - and this very Stravinskian notion is one that informs much of work. While my Piano Sonata is certainly about the piano itself â its power, its myriad of colours, its delicacy and its contrapuntal clarity â it is also about the piano's literature; the great sonatas of Chopin and Lizst, of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Tippett are always present in the

'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Piano Sonata

Gabriel Jackson

Composer Information

Gabriel Jackson (b.1962)

One of Britain's foremost composers, after three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Gabriel Jackson went on to study composition with Richard Blackford and John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, his liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of most of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs and he is a frequent collaborator with the leading professional groups of the world. From 2010-2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers. In 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, was premiered in its chapel. May 2015 saw the premiere at the Latvian National Opera of Spring Rounds for soprano, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Riga-based youth choir Kamer for their 25th anniversary. He was recently commissioned by The Marian Consort to write Stabat Mater to mark their 10th anniversary. Gabriel Jackson's website