When a dear friend of mine, the composer Jonathan Harvey, passed away in December 2012, I immediately felt like writing a simple praise for his life. Thinking of Harvey?s predilection for timbre, I decided to write a piano piece based on a spectral reference of some sort; something of acontradiction, of course, due to the temperate tuning of the piano and the percussive nature of the instrument. Eulogy is based on the temperate harmonic series of a single note, a low C which remains unheard throughout the piece. In this sense, the note C is articulated by the unfolding of melodic and harmonic fragments in time. A suggestion of unity, elicited by a recurrent C heard on different registers, is thus voiced by the unfolding of its inner content in a slow interaction of stasis and motion as an imaginary process of evolving consciousness in space.

The world premiere of Eulogy took place on 13th February 2013 at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart and was performed by John Palmer.