Carillons à Musique (2018) - Liliya Ugay

This piece by Liliya Ugay creates a sense of space and resonance that I really enjoy. It begins with a simple idea in a single line that eventually is expanded with ornaments that hang in the pedal and create an open and ringing quality. The balance of simple, crystalline sounds with more intense moments makes this piece extremely engaging. Ugay writes “Carillons à Musique is an old name for ‘music box’ and resembles the connection of music and time, music and memory, the inevitability of time, and the constancy of loneliness. I am always fascinated by the magic of music boxes, which inspires me to think deeply in the past with its tenderness and fragility. Sometimes listening to the ticking seconds of a clock or falling waterdrops cause the same state of meditation.” Ugay dedicates the piece to her first piano teacher, Guzal Ardashirova.

Ugay studied at the Yale School of Music with Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, Hannah Lash, Christopher Theofanidis, and David Lang. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Composition and director of the Polymorphia ensemble of new music at the Florida State University

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