Michael Jarrell

Modifications was written for the Ensemble Contrechamps and Claude Helffer. The score is a direct reference to the eponymous novel by Michel Butor, and is inspired by some of its principles, namely th...

This is a tricky exercise, for the performer needs to move forwards as well as backwards, to move to and fro, not really following any path, although he sometimes strays from Assonances, as in Berio's...

Michael Jarrell's series of 'Assonances', like Berio's 'Sequenze', is basically cyclical, although the pieces are not necessarily written for solo instrument. The composer himself considers them rathe...

Kongruenz, vom lateinischen congruere, passen, ist ein Begriff aus der Geometrie: "Wenn alle Punkte zweier übereinander liegender Figuren zusammenfallen, werden sie als kongruent bezeichnet", berichte...

Assonance VII for solo percussion, composed for the International Competition of Musical Performance in Geneva (where it was first performed by Takajumi Sujimoto in 1992), roundly confirms Michael Jar...

Prisme for solo violin, arose out of ...prismes / incidences... (1998) for violin and orchestra, a woks which was also premiered by the soloist Hae-Sun Kang. It was written specially for this recordin...

In contrast to the stage play, which is divided into 15 scenes framed by introductory songs, Michael Jarrell has constructed his opera as uninterrupted flow of 12 tableaux, in an effort to highlight t...