Veronique Vaka
Boreas
Duration: 7'
Solos:
piano
BOREAS,Three short pieces for solo piano (2024)
Written for Pallavi Mahidhara
World Premiere: 21. June 2024 in Germany during Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Greek Premiere: 11. August 2024, in Greece during Samos Young Artist Festival.
French Premiere: 30. September 2023, Golden Gallery, Banque de France (Paris)
I. Upp á nátthiminn demantskalda
Up in the Diamond Cold Night Sky
II. Rafmagnsgrænum bjarma norðurljósa
The Electric Green Glow of the Northern Light
III. Hjartsláttur sólarrysstraumanna
The Hearthbeat of the Solar Radiation Stream
*Boreas will be available after the release of its recording by Pallavi Mahidhara, later in 2025.
Commissioned by Pallavi Mahidhara
Supported by the Icelandic Artists’ Salary, and STEFs -Nótnasjóður.
The Icelandic titles are from the poem NÓTTIN by Steinunn Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir [VÉL, Sæmundur 2020]
