Programme Notes

Kirstie Mosher is a soprano who briefly visited England between 2015 and 2016 on an exchange between Trinity Laban Conservatoire and the Shenendoah Conservatory in the United States. After she helped me with a few recordings, I wrote this piece as a thank-you gift.

I already knew the M.E. Coleridge poem "The Blue Bird" (famously set to music by Charles Villiers Stanford), and I wanted to find other works of her's that I might be able to set. "A Moment" is the perfect length for a short and sweet song: it is only two stanzas in length. The main harmonic idea which begins the piece was something I stumbled across in an improvisation that I did, and from there came the entire piece.