Academic Sonata Op. 4 (for solo piano)

This three-movement, sixteen - minute, Sonata was written in 1980 when I was a student at University College Cardiff. It was the last piece I wrote before abandoning academia to become a full-time professional composer writing film and television music.

A decade or so later, this and three other student sonatas were rebranded ‘Academic Sonatas’ and given opus numbers. My thinking behind the use of this ‘Academic’ tag was to differentiate these early ‘student’ pieces from the more recent work I was writing at the time.

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