2014 Abandoned Songs with other Words 2013 Two Step Passion ver. for piano trio Fortuna Sepio Nos it's a nasreddin Zamboturfidir 2012 Drawings vers. for cello and piano Judgment of Midas (opera in two acts) Asumani Symphony in Blue 2011 Still, Flow, Surge The Invasion Two Step Passion Thyestes 2009 Requiem for Mehmet Far Variations Concerto for Orcestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices 2008 Dreamlines Road to Memphis 2007 Partita in E Nihavent Longa Music for a Lost Earth > earlier MKG Variations (cello version) (1999) First Performance July 1999 Steven Ross Sommerfest, Minnesota Orchestra Minneapolis, MN Instrumentation cello Duration 11' Listen MKG Variations Program Notes MKG Variations for cello is commissioned by Marlene Guzman. The work takes advantage of the sonorous qualities of the open strings on the cello. The piece stems out of a spiritual impulse. The first idea, an idea of calm yet anticipatory stasis, acts as a theme which is then varied in a string of variations. The variations range from a passionate expression of the theme to a percussive one; from an angry one to an extremely delicate one; from one that is somewhat Bach-like to one that is fleeting, but frozen in time; to one that is more raw and unforgiving. The work closes with a final presentation of the original theme, dissolving into silence, where it once originated from.