Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano

PDF of Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (Score and Parts)
 
From the CD booklet:
 
When I wrote the first sonata for him in 2019, it was during the best of my years in Chile. For the first time in my life, I was financially stable and creatively free. My wife and I had just welcomed our first daughter, and we were purchasing our first home—a modest government-subsidized apartment in a working-class neighborhood. My music was being performed internationally, and I’d been accepted into a PhD program to study with David Felder, a personal musical hero. That sense of arrival—of possibility and gratitude—echoes clearly to me in the First Sonata. It is a work of energy, optimism, and conviction. I was consciously asking myself: why write a sonata in G Major in the 21st century? What could I contribute to this tradition? Though Brahms was a guiding light (a shared touchstone for Emanuelle and me), I feel the work ultimately moves beyond homage. It unfolds like a nesting doll: the first three movements can be heard as one long breath, until the fourth emerges—quicksilver and restless. There is a whimsy and dramatic breadth that, as Aurelien notes, makes the piece feel like its own island in a strange and marvelous archipelago.