Written for the 2023 Bang on a Can Summer Festival

Premiered July 26, 2023 at MASS MoCA by Will Pyle (saxophone), Iwo Jedynecki (accordion), and Sam Zagnit (bass)

Recorded live by Jacob Ridderberg

Suspire is a brief meditation on the act of breathing. Built out of several simple dovetailing ‘inhale-exhale’ gestures, the piece moves gently up and down the ensemble’s range as its members fade in and out of one another. The piece was my first foray into writing for classical accordion, and to compose it, I allowed the action of the bellows to guide the shape and direction of its gestures and form.

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