"Dancing on Glass" a new album of chamber music by Victoria Bond to be released October 3 on Albany Records
Album includes performances by acclaimed string players Pauline Kim Harris, Chieh-Fan Yiu, and Coleman Itzkoff and works for two pianos played by Madeline Rogers and Florencia Zuloaga
Title track is released as digital single on September 19
From Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing to mathematics and Chinese folk music, composer Victoria Bond can take inspiration from just about anything. These disparate sources and more are incorporated into the three works on her forthcoming album of chamber music "Dancing on Glass," released October 3, 2025 on Albany Records (TROY2007).
Acclaimed string players Pauline Kim Harris (violin), Chieh-Fan Yiu (viola), and Coleman Itzkoff (cello), are featured on the title track, which will be released digitally on September 19. Dancing on Glass is based on a Chinese folk song, Liu Yang River, and the title comes from the dancing reflection of light on the waterfront.
The album also features a couple works for two pianos performed by Madeline Rogers and Florencia Zuloaga. Binary is Bond's exploration on how 0 and 1 could be applied to music. "In mathematics and computer science the binary numeral system has had profound implications on our society," says the composer. "As early as 1703, the mathematician Gottfried Leibniz believed that binary numbers represented the mystical 'creatio ex nihilo' or creation out of nothing." Throughout the two movement work, Bond plays with this idea in rhythm, melody, and texture. The other work performed by Rogers and Zuloaga, Black Light, was originally written as a piano concerto, premiered by long-time Bond collaborator Paul Barnes. This is the world premiere recording of the version for two pianos. The second movement takes inspiration from Jewish liturgical music and the finale is inspired by the scat singing of Ella Fitzgerald.
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