Opus number: op. 116
Title: Twelve Lyric Preludes
Written for: Angel Ramon Rivera and the NEC Preparatory School Piano Seminar
Date written: 2012
Length: twenty-one minutes
Premiere performance: March 2, 2013, Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music, NEC’s Preparatory Division Contemporary Festival. Twelve students of A. Ramon Rivera
Subsequent performance: May 24, 2013, Pierce Hall at New England Conservatory, students of A. Ramon Rivera
Program notes: Twelve Lyric Preludes, Op. 116, were written for and dedicated to Angel Rivera’s Intermediate Seminar at the NEC Preparatory School. They were first played in March of 2013 as part of the annual “Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music” festival. Earlier in September of 2012 the composer played the first four and the last four of these preludes in a concert at David Friend Recital Hall at the Berklee College of Music and in a service at First Church Boston.
