Description

Homage à Koussevitsky was composed in 2008, inspired by the Paris Double Bass Convention that year, and is an impressive, inventive, and colourful one-movement work for the …advanced bassist.
The piece is episodic, emphasizing the lyrical, tonal, and timbral qualities available to the 21st-century double bassist, and employs the entire range of the solo double bass.
There are musical and technical challenges aplenty and it is composed in a modern but lyrical and accessible idiom. Atmospheric and evocative, dramatic and powerful, the piece evokes a range of moods and emotions within its short time span.