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CONTEMPORARY PIANO MUSIC

This section presents diverse contemporary music for piano, encompassing modern piano compositions and new piano music. It highlights 21st-century solo piano repertoire, avant-garde pieces, and significant chamber music, including works by Lior Navok.

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR PIANO

contemporary piano repertoire

Lior Navok, the pianist himself, crafts evocative music for solo piano. His focus lies primarily on creating miniatures, each serving as a microcosm of imaginary worlds, atmospheres, and dramatic situations. Navok's compositions present technical and harmonic challenges, yet they also yield a profound emotional resonance.

SOLO PIANO

solo


Luminoceptions
14' | solo piano

 

This section explores contemporary solo piano music, featuring diverse modern solo piano compositions and new solo classical piano works from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, avant-garde, and progressive repertoire, showcasing evocative pieces and dynamic performances, including works by Lior Navok.

Periscopes
30' | solo piano

Shimmer
10' 30" | solo piano

 

Silent Streets
7' 30" | solo piano 

 

Ten Bagatelles
18' | solo piano

 

The Old Photo Box
58' | solo piano

 

The Waiting Hours
14' | solo piano 

 

Visions
14' 30" | solo piano 

 

CONTEMPORARY PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC

duo

This section explores contemporary chamber piano music, featuring diverse modern piano chamber compositions and new piano chamber repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive works for various ensembles, including those by Lior Navok.


DUOS
 

At the Edge of a Spiral
10' | piano four-hands​

 

Dripping Minutes - Frozen Years
8' 30" | viola and piano

 

Ex Silentium
11' | bassoon and piano

 

Fluctuations
10' | cello and piano

 

Fizzy
10' 30" | oboe and piano

 

Hidden Reflections
15' | alto saxophone and piano

 

contemporary music for piano

Hidden Reflections
15' | clarinet (A) and piano

 

Humoresque
5' | clarinet and piano

 

Samsara
11' | trombone and piano

 

Three Winged Movements
12' | flute and piano

 

Toward Stillness
10' | horn and piano

 

Violin Sonata
18' | violin and piano 

 

trios, quartets, quintets


TRIOS / QUARTETS / QUINTETS
 

Frozen Junctions

13' | vibraphone, viola and piano

Like a Whirling Sand Clock

10' 30" | clarinet, cello and piano

Mysterious Pond

10' | flute, oboe and piano

Piano Trio

22' | violin, cello and piano

Signals

for percussion ensemble

11' | percussion (4 players) and piano / celeste (one player)

Piano Quintet

18' | piano, violins (2), viola and cello

Tourelles

12' | 4 celli and piano

CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WITH PIANO

 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WITH PIANO 

This section explores contemporary chamber ensemble music with piano, featuring diverse modern piano chamber ensemble compositions and new repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive works for various ensembles, including those by Lior Navok.


Elegy to the Future
for Pierrot ensemble

13' | piccolo / alto flute;
clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano

 

Flashes of Decay
for chamber ensemble

12' | flute / piccolo; English horn; clarinet / bass clarinet; horn; tuba; percussion (2); harp; piano

 

Quicksand
for Pierrot ensemble

11' | bass clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano

 

Sextet
for Pierrot ensemble

22' | flute / piccolo/bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano

 

Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble
for chamber ensemble

12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass

 

VOCAL MUSIC WITH PIANO

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Found in a Train Station

for soprano and ensemble
11' 30" | soprano, mandolin, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

 

This section explores contemporary vocal music with piano, featuring diverse modern piano vocal compositions and new vocal repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive vocal piano works, including those by Lior Navok.

The Sea of Sunset
for soprano / mezzo-soprano and ensemble

8" | soprano / mezzo-soprano, tenor trombone, piano and double bass

 

Three songs
10' | soprano / mezzo-soprano and piano

 

Copenhagen Songs
7' | alto and piano

 

The Tailoress Song
3' 30" | alto and piano
 

End-of-the-Day Songs
12' | baritone / bass-baritone and piano

 

CHORAL MUSIC WITH PIANO 

Choal

This section explores contemporary choral music with piano, featuring diverse modern piano-accompanied choral compositions and new repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive works for choir and piano, including those by Lior Navok.


Meditations Over Shore

for soli, choir and small ensemble

14' | soli (SATB), double chamber choir, double large choir, harmonica, percussion (2) and piano

STAGE MUSIC WITH PIANO 

stage


FAMILY CONCERTS
 

Beauty and the Beast

for narrator and ensemble

31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano

The Adventures of Pinocchio

for three actors and woodwind quintet / orchestra

61' | 3 actors (F,M,M), flute / piccolo, oboe / English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano

OR:

3 actors (F,M,M), flute / piccolo, oboe / English-horn, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion (1), harp, piano, strings

The Little Mermaid

for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra

36' | actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet

OR:

actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section

Sheet Music for Piano:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Piano Repertoire

     Solo Piano

  • Béla Bartók – Mikrokosmos (Books V & VI) – solo piano – 1926-1939

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza IV – solo piano – 1966

  • Pierre Boulez – Sonata No. 2 – solo piano – 1948

  • John Cage – Sonatas and Interludes – prepared piano – 1946-1948

  • Elliott Carter – Night Fantasies – solo piano – 1980

  • Henry Cowell – The Banshee – solo piano – 1925

  • George Crumb – Makrokosmos I – amplified piano – 1972

  • Claude Debussy – Études – solo piano – 1915

  • Frederic Rzewski – The People United Will Never Be Defeated! – solo piano – 1975

  • György Ligeti – Études (Book I) – solo piano – 1985

  • Olivier Messiaen – Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus – solo piano – 1944

  • Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Sonata No. 7 – solo piano – 1939-1942

  • Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la Nuit – solo piano – 1908

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstück IX – solo piano – 1961

  • Igor Stravinsky – Piano Sonata – solo piano – 1924

  • Toru Takemitsu – Rain Tree Sketch – solo piano – 1982

  • John Adams – Phrygian Gates – solo piano – 1977-1978

  • Alberto Ginastera – Sonata No. 1 – solo piano – 1952

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Prelude and Fugue No. 24 – solo piano – 1951

  • Aaron Copland – Piano Variations – solo piano – 1930
    Piano Duos (Two Pianos or Piano Four-Hands)

  • Samuel Barber – Souvenirs, Op. 28 – piano four-hands – 1951

  • Luciano Berio – Touch – two pianos – 1991

  • Claude Debussy – Petite Suite – piano four-hands – 1888-89

  • Maurice Ravel – Ma mère l’Oye – piano four-hands – 1910

  • Francis Poulenc – Sonata for Two Pianos – two pianos – 1953

  • György Ligeti – Monument, Selbstportrait, Bewegung – two pianos – 1976

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mantra – two pianos and electronics – 1970

  • John Adams – Hallelujah Junction – two pianos – 1996

  • Olivier Messiaen – Visions de l’Amen – two pianos – 1943

  • Witold Lutosławski – Variations on a Theme by Paganini – two pianos – 1941
    Piano Concertos

  • Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major – piano and orchestra – 1929-1931

  • Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 – piano and orchestra – 1921

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2 – piano and orchestra – 1957

  • Béla Bartók – Piano Concerto No. 2 – piano and orchestra – 1930-1931

  • Olivier Messiaen – Oiseaux Exotiques – piano and ensemble – 1955-1956

  • György Ligeti – Piano Concerto – piano and orchestra – 1985-1988

  • John Adams – Century Rolls – piano and orchestra – 1996

  • Aaron Copland – Piano Concerto – piano and orchestra – 1926

  • Paul Hindemith – Piano Concerto – piano and orchestra – 1945

  • Michael Tippett – Piano Concerto – piano and orchestra – 1955

  • Unsuk Chin – Piano Concerto – piano and orchestra – 1996

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