Premiered at the Impulse New Music Festival 2019 by Marc Evanstein, piano

For my entire adult life, I have considered myself a nocturnal being. Even when I get regular sleep (a rarity for most working musicians I know), I often find myself feeling truly alert and alive when night falls. As a result, music that is evocative of the night has always felt the most attractive to me. It is difficult to articulate the precise quality that makes a piece feel nocturnal. One can observe the obvious components such as a piece’s rhythm, harmony, or texture, but there always remains some ineffably nocturnal quality which escapes rational explanation. As a synesthete, I prefer to consult the images my mind conjures when listening to “night music”, as they capture this quality in ways I otherwise could not fathom. Twilight Tune is my own exploration in writing “night music”, in creating something that looks and feels nocturnal to me.