Falling into Memory

for piano and cello

Duration

c.a 5:00 Minuets 

Premiere

Matthias Remley-Ender, cello and Timothy Hyslop, piano on July 18, 2026

Score

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Note

Falling into Memory” is a dialogue between presence and absence, between what once stood and what remains. Written for cello and piano, the piece weaves fragments of melody and silence, evoking the echoes of spaces lost to time. Though inspired by personal recollections of family and place, it extends beyond a single story inviting the listener to reflect on the fragile nature of memory, home, and the voices that linger even after walls have fallen.

At times tender, at others restless, the music shifts between structure and dissolution, much like memory itself — fading, resurfacing, reshaping. The cello and piano converse across distances, not only as instruments but as echoes of lives, places, and histories that refuse to be forgotten.

Memory is a house that never truly falls — its walls may crumble, but its echoes remain, drifting through time like whispers in the wind.

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