reitario’ (2017/2019)

Dedication: Composers Society of Singapore

Instrumentation: piano

Duration: 4.5 minutes

Program Information:
reitario’ is an inward reflection and meditation of the acts of repetition, reiteration, reprise and re-enactment. Each time a new story is produced, an old one is remembered and cherished.

Premiere: August 17 2017 | Moritz Ernst | Singapore

Performance: October 6 2019 | Choo Choo Hu | Atlanta GA
November 13 2020 | Clare Longendyke | Chicago IL
December 21 2020 | Clare Longendyke | Indianapolis IN
March 17 2022 | Clare Longendyke | Artisan Marketplace @ 16 Tech, Indianapolis IN
May 25 2022 | Michala Linn | Kolding, Denmark
June 11 2022 | Michala Linn | Gudme, Denmark 

Reviews:
“Koh’s “reitario'” (the composer’s own neologism) opened the concert. This brief, four-minute work is quiet, still music which gradually builds in speed and complexity. The ponderous solemnity is enlivened by a flurry of grace notes — combined with Longendyke’s loving attention, it just managed to hold mine.”