I’m listening back to this piece I released a year ago in January 2019. For those of you who don’t know, I stopped playing the violin and performing publicly on stage/in media around 2005-2006, around the time I was in a very bad place in my life. As writing took more of a front seat to pull me back up, I played violin intermittently at home between then until 2015, when I plucked up the courage to post a clip of me playing online. There was a return to house concerts before a return to music compositions and the stage / theatres.
I used piano, clarinet, Carnatic violin, Western classical violin and strings orchestra to convey an opener of any kind with this one.
I’m particularly proud of this score theme, called Ainkaran’s Dawn Theme, not only because composing with counterpoint on instruments that are new to me, such as piano, was not easy and was outside my comfort zone, but because it represented a new beginning for me.
