nic patonChamberworks (EMM512) is a product of several years work on both composition and performance, being as close to pure classics as I will dare to venture.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and others. For Media content creators, access the album and cutdowns on BMG Production Music.
As publishing library Evolution Media puts it: “Live chamber and baroque-style pieces, for solo classical guitar or intimate groups of strings, piano and clarinet. Ideal for art, history, heritage and period settings.”
I studied classical guitar over the period in question, and the pieces often emerged from my own encounters with the genre. In addition to guitar, I played the clarinet parts on my very first instrument (a Yamaha Bb), bought for me by my supportive mom and dad over 50 years ago.
Thanks to Lucia Di-Blasio Scott (violin) and Rob Jeffry (cello) for your classical bona fides.
“Requiem for a Starman” was my response to the death of my lifelong musical hero, David Bowie, written in 2016. And “Motherbird” is dedicated to my wife Ann.
It’s by no means “virtuosic”, and I doubt that it will find any concert hall audiences, but it’s very gratifying to hear it in its finished form and I am hoping for a good uptake by media content creators.
But here are the initial 3 tracks: