Clarinetist performs senior recital

Trilling notes and rolling melodies filled the Mari Sandoz Center Atrium during Bryony Trump’s senior clarinet recital, Saturday.

The 7 p.m. performance by Trump, an Applied Music major from Sterling, Colorado, was sequestered into three movements, beginning with Robert Muczynski’s “Time Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43.” Starting with “II. Andante Espressivo,” Trump and accompanist Bobby Pace countered the slow-moving rhythms with quickly-shifting wild rhythms as the piece progressed. According to Trump’s program notes, “Time Pieces” is “melodious in its own way, but dotted with tonally colorful scales and time shifts.” While “Andante Espressivo” introduced brooding tempos, the resulting movements “III. Allegro Moderato” and “IV. Introduction: Andante Molto + Allegro Energetico” ended the movement in lively notes.

After a brief intermission, Trump resumed her performance with “Thoughts on Water for Clarinet and Piano” by Joe Cline, a 2018 CSC graduate. “I. Pluviam Plink,” Latin for “rain plink,” began the movement with a light-hearted melody, shifting into urgent, dark tones in “II. Polypus Pedum.” At the height of the movement, “III. Parva et Pacificis”, which means “small and peaceful” in Latin, slowed things down for finale “IV. Praebet Pluvia,” a mixture of the previous three movements that “represents the different forms water can take.”

Trump capped off her performance with “Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 III. Rondo: Allegro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concerto, which begins in an upbeat movement but transitions into deeper tones, was one of Mozart’s last pieces premiered before his death. Trump performed the concerto with a soprano B flat clarinet, but the original score for her instrument has been lost since clarinet and basset horn player Anton Stadler allegedly sold the work while on tour in Germany.

CSC Music will conclude their spring season with junior recitals from Kaye Cunningham, on flute, and Kyle Kuxhausen, on percussion, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30. Guest percussionist Michael Carp will deliver the final performance at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 2.