12 PRELUDES FOR 12 PIANISTS
“A Child’s Secret Treasure Chest”
(2024 - 2025)

Instrumentation
For Solo Piano

Duration
75 min

Composed by Sam Perkin
Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland Music Bursary Award

About
This is the child’s secret treasure chest. A box of wonder. Fragile. Precious. This suite of 12 Preludes for 12 Pianists for solo piano is an intensely personal set of pieces inspired by and dedicated to childhood. The ideas that were used for each of these pieces had been kept safe for a very long time. I only let them see the light of day in 2024 and 2025 when I composed this heartfelt set of preludes. Composed for the following 12 Pianists, half from Ireland and half other countries: Nathalia Milstein (FRANCE), Finghin Collins (IRELAND), Hugh Tinney (IRELAND), Izumi Kimura (IRELAND / JAPAN), Eliza McCarthy (USA / UK), Cormac McCarthy (IRELAND), Ryan Molloy (IRELAND), Isabelle O’Connell (IRELAND / USA), Máire Carroll (IRELAND), Fiachra Garvey (IRELAND), James McVinnie (UK) & Vicky Chow (USA). Throughout the collection we explore wonder, innocence, freedom, serenity, love, discovery, beauty, delight, perfection, the feeling of genuine aliveness, ecstasy, and the end of innocence.