Eccentric Violin-Shredding Cabaret Concertino (2025) (8 min.)

Instrumentation: violin solo, any ensemble accompaniment

Premiered January 31, 2025 with Wasted Wine at Fireforge Crafted Beer
Benjamin Goodwin, violin

Program Note

This violin concertino was written for my 2025 Winter Term project at Oberlin Conservatory. As a collaboration with the band Wasted Wine, I combined inspirations from my classical background with traditional Celtic musical structures to be played in the context of a rock band. The name is derived from what they call themselves: an “eccentric violin-shredding cabaret rock band.”

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