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Jean Hasse - Piano

Four Bits for Piano (1986-87) (11:00) >
I. Purple Blues	>
II. You're Like a Sunny Day (w/voice)	>
III. Moment X	>
IV. The Fantastic Vacation	>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere: 6 November 1987, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge MA Jean Hasse / Herschel Garfein (voice) VM 08 order

kinkh (1985) (3:45)>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere: 13 December 1985, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT / Jean Hasse VM 09 order

Pocket Pieces (1998-2005) (ca.50:00)	>
62 piano pieces in three volumes
Indian Summer	>
Little Pond	>
Never Fail Fudge	>
Edge	>
Remember	>
Sitting Around	>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere of 16 pieces: 29 October 1998, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH Jean Hasse Book I: JHVM 121A order >> > >> >>Book II: JHVM 121B order >> >>>>> Book III: JHVM 121C order

Silk Water (1992) (6:15)>>>>
piano left hand
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere: 12 October 1992, New England Conservatory, Boston MA / Leon Fleisher VM 04 order

Sixths (1999) (4:00)>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere: 4 August 1999, Astor Theatre, Deal, Kent, England / Stephen Gutman JHVM 120 order

Tremolo Piece (1985) (ca. 5:30)>>	>
Piano and digital delay system or two pianos or any number of pianos
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Premiere: 13 December 1985, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT / Jean Hasse JHVM 122 order

Jean Hasse Compositions

- Amateur ensembles /
- Graphic scores

- Brass ensembles

- Chamber ensembles /
- Solo instruments

- Percussion solo and
--ensembles

- Piano

- Vocal / Choral

press quotes

Four Bits for Piano
"Impressionistic and jazzy, the work recalls the past but introduces new harmonies
and rhythms."
- The Hartford Courant,
December 1987

kinkh
"It is bone dry, full
of interesting detail, inviting personal involvement.
I really love it."
- Piano, March/April 1998

Pocket Pieces
“Small, thoughtful piano pieces of often Satie-esque melancholy”
- Village Voice, NY,
29 May 2001

Silk Water
"a ruminative work
of chord and clusters
with a Messiaenic spiritual aura"
- The Boston Globe,
October 1992

"The six-minute work
is every bit as evocative as the title indicates.
And Leon Fleisher brought rapturous intensity to the slowly evolving chordal writing"
- San Francisco Examiner, March 1993

Tremolo Piece
"a wash of shimmering surface textures"
- The Boston Globe,
February 1988

"engaging to the ear ... (it) builds up harmonies slowly in an unchanging but ever-richer texture"
- BBC Music Magazine,
March 2000