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I would be pleased. :)

Thank you all for your interest! Firstly, manosgg, what do you mean the score is in need of attention? In my opinnion, there is enough information for good musicans to create a performance. Bourbadakis is Greek, you are right. But he lives in Germany now days. I'm going to his master class this year also. What comes to the performance, I agree it isn't perfect, but I'm satisfied. Few of my friends are playing this piece also so maybe we might get a better version some day :) Lorenzio Salvagini, you are totally right that this could have been a longer piece. Actually, I had something around 10min in my head when starting to write this, but as usually, I became inpatience and squeezed to this 4 mins. Also some variation and development would make good for this work and give some more lenght. As we all know, development and variating is the hardest part of composing. Next piece I do, I will practise some more of it. Actually, I apreciate your comment and think of maybe trying to do some re-writing and add some contrasting ideas as you suggested. David, it is natural I write better for piano as a pianist. :) Can you point out some specific places where the violin part reaches the borders so I can try to fix them? Or I'm not absolutely sure what you mean by stretchy. Do you mean there is too much or less? By the way, the moving tonality is called freetonal, for example prokofiev wrote in this way also. Voce, "When I heard the arpeggios at the beginning I was like ehh lol, I thought it was just going to be a normal tonal piece." you got my point ;) Good thinking. Overall, thank you all for listening and leaving some comments. I'm absolutely glad that you all enjoyed it!

Thank you all for your intrest! What comes to the cadenza, it was improvised so that is why it may not be so thematic. (excuses :D) Mostly it is spinning around in same harmony and variating the main theme from the beginning. Maybe some day I will write a cadenza and try to make it more interesting and thematic... It also might be possible that the cadenza I played worked live better than in a recorded because of the interactivity between me and the audience. Anyway good point, J Br! Romanticist, there is two other works of mine in the chamber music section if you are interested. :) Thatguy, I would love to post a score but I don't have it on my computer and I don't have a scanner. Friend of mine promissed to cleanwrite it but I don't know when he gets it done. If I ever get it I will post the score!

Thank you for your comment! I agree I must be more careful in future to not let my compositions be haunted by too "poppish" ideas. I'm glad I'm now aware of it. It is some times really hard to be objective to your own compositions, this is why forums like theese are great!

Hello, This is a piece I composed last summer at composing master class held by Mineas Bourbadakis in Germany. It is for violin and piano. It is performed by my piano teacher and one violin teacher of our conservatory at my composition concert in May. This is also one of rare pieces I have score in my computer so I can also share it with you all. I hope you enjoy listening to theese cold athmospheres from snowy Finland. YouTube - Zinovjev: Romance for violin and piano Sincerly, Sauli Zinovjev romanssi.pdf

Hello, I composed a Nocturne for cello and piano for my cellist friend as a birthday present. The structure of this piece is a simple a-b-a with some variation of course. You can hear\see the piece here: It is performed by that friend, who I dedicated the piece and my piano teacher is accompanying him. I hope you all enjoy listening to it and feel free to tell me some critic! Sincerly, Sauli Zinovjev

Hello, This is my first post to theese forums. I hope I can get some critic so I can improve in composing. This piece was composed during this spring and the premiere was held 13th of May, 2008. The conductor was a good friend of mine, Madis J