Aphorisms I (2009)

'Aphorisms I' was composed in 2009 and premiered by its dedicatee, Kolya Lessing, in Lucerne in February 2010. The five short movements develop, for the solo violin, into a small instrumental cosmos of character pieces which have evolved from contrapuntal thinking. The sound is determined not by atonal acrobatics, but by plastic phrases based on the possibilities of the instrument.