Gray Tree, for Solo Cello

Program Notes:

Gray Tree is a collaboration with Michigan-based cellist Andres Ayerbe, which started over a zoom meeting during quarantine. It is based on Piet Mondrian’s Gray Tree, 1911, oil on canvas. It started out as a reflection on the ominous feeling of being trapped by an invisible enemy, but as the project unfolded, the tree started to remind me of the growth that can be obtained when persisting through unexpected obstacles.