Nokuthula Ngwenyama

World Premiere: Elegy/Piano Quartet

Premiere Date: April 3, 2022

Chamber Music Tulsa was approached by cellist Sharon Robinson to be a co-commissioner of this work.

Elegy for piano quartet (2021-2) – written for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Title page includes the following words:

To remember,

To let go.

To be haunted,

then free.

Honoring our ancestors

and the sacrifices

leading to this moment,

We commemorate a

will to thrive over centuries

And give respect to

the struggle –

which proudly belongs to us all.

Commissioned by Linton Chamber Music (in Memory of Carol and Harry Hoffheimer) world premiere; Brattleboro Music Center; Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle; Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival; Chamber Music Tulsa; The Abe Fortas Memorial Fund of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the late Carolyn E. Agree, the widow of Abe Fortas; Chamber Music Northwest; Chamber Music Monterey Bay; Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, sponsored in memory of Isidore and Goldie Shapiro by their grandchildren, Ben, Miriam, Rachel and Ruthie; Phoenix Chamber Music Society; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; and Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, through the International Arts Foundation, Inc.

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