Michael Jon Fink (1954-)
Five Pieces for Piano (1997)
For Celesta (1985)
Two Preludes for Piano (1996)
Living to Be Hunted by the Moon (1987)
I Hear It in the Rain (1985)

Bryan Pezzone, Marty Walker, Michael Jon Fink, Rick Cox, Dan Morris

Music for solo piano, solo celesta, multiple clarinets, and electronic instruments. The fragile piano works and the celesta piece display Fink‘s command of forms that are Debussyian in beauty (and occasionally in gesture) yet maintain a distinctly contemporary distance from their musical materials. The multi-clarinet work is a dark, slow-moving study in texture and tone color. The title piece is moody, insistent music that glistens with electric timbres, particularly Rick Cox’s electric guitar work. Critics have described Fink’s music as “lustrous” and “metaphysically tinged” and likened it to the work of composer Morton Feldman. [CD and folder in jewel case]