This article focuses on musical interaction between the soloist and the orchestra in my compositions Piano Concerto (2008) and Swap – Chamber Concerto for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra (2012-13).
Comparing these two concertos is very revealing. First of all, the profile of the orchestral accompaniment and its individual parts is higher in the Saxophone Concerto than in the Piano Concerto, which was written four years earlier, for the most part before my doctoral studies…