I wrote this piece as the mandatory piece for the 58th Premio Paganini. It was performed during the preliminary round — a solo violin stage in which all candidates were required to perform my work alongside music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Niccolò Paganini.

For health reasons, I was unfortunately unable to attend the competition in person and could only listen to these wonderful performances via livestream, rather than experiencing them live and paying tribute directly to these extraordinarily talented young performers. Through the streaming broadcasts, however, I had the chance to listen to around twenty different interpretations of my piece, each one bringing its own sensitivity, imagination, and musical personality.

My deepest and most heartfelt thanks go to all the violinists who studied and performed my work, for giving me — even from afar — such a profound emotion.

A special thanks also goes to Nicola Bruzzo for giving me this incredible opportunity and for his constant kindness and support.

This video features several candidates from the preliminary round on October 15, where my piece was the mandatory piece alongside music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Niccolò Paganini.

The first performance, at around 11:30, is by Rino Yoshimoto, who received Second Prize. At around 48:00, Aozhe Zhang, the First Prize winner, can be heard. The video also includes performances by Mariam Abouzhara and Calvin Alexander.

And here, at around 52:30, it is possible to hear the interpretation by Kim Hyun Seo, which I loved very much.

a short note:

Fragments of memories emerge from an iridescent texture, subtle signs that light holds and lets resonate. They do not vanish, but call to each other, weaving hidden connections.

The violin becomes a lens that refracts sound, multiplying its colors in a play of transparency and density. The texture is unstable and shifting: fragile figures appear, answer one another, and slowly transform.

The sound does not seek to affirm itself, but to remember: each gesture carries an echo, a trace that renews itself and stays alive. The timbral matter opens and breaks apart, revealing luminous fragments that intertwine in a fleeting design.

The music moves within this threshold of appearance and disappearance, like a trace of light persisting in fading memory.