Score Follow Video for Partita for Solo Viola: I. Prelude (2024)
Recorded by Jesse Morrison on Transitions, released February 27, 2026: https://jessemorrisonviola.bandcamp.com/album/transitions
For more info about the work and to purchase the score, go to Partita for Solo Viola
Hello friends, colleagues, and family members!
I wanted to let you know about a current fundraising campaign we are having with Rossini Club to fund the remainder of my album, which will feature Del Sol Quartet, clarinetist Nicholas Davies, and a vocal quartet organized by soprano Rose Hegele. The album includes my Clarinet Quintet "Oh World, Goodnight" and String Quartet No. 4 "Kaddish", both of which intimately connect to the Yiddish world. Please click below for more info and to see the perks for donating (from a “thank-you” note”, to receiving the final album, to getting a private concert!).
Sing Out, Fight Back! Yiddish Songs of Social Change
A Besere Velt Yiddish Chorus of Boston Workers Circle
Derek David, Music Director
and Golden Thread Ensemble
Golden Thread Ensemble is a pioneering new chamber-klezmer group led by Craig Judelman, featuring The Klezmatics’ frontman Lorin Sklamberg, and a virtuosic string quintet made up of leading klezmer musicians. Combining a deep grounding in klezmer, Yiddish theater, classical and contemporary art music, this new project has already received rave reviews at North America’s premiere klezmer festivals for its program celebrating the power of music to carry and communicate the human experience, and its critical role in the important struggles for improvements in the living and working conditions for millions of people over the last 150 years.
“A remarkable composition”
“an epic four-movement quintet ”
Read this review from Del Sol and Nicholas Davies’ April 18th concert at Chatter, featuring my Oh World, Goodnight Clarinet Quintet.
And please consider donating to the album campaign, which features Oh World, Goodnight and String Quartet No. 4 “Kaddish”.
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Check out the full interview with violist Jesse Morrison here: https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2026/02/26/interview-violist-jesse-morrison-talks-new-release-transitions/
Jesse Morrison’s Transitions, featuring my Partita for Solo Viola is out today. The album is available for streaming and download.
Also available on Bandcamp & Apple Music.
From the Liner Notes:
The album begins with a newly commissioned work, Partita for Solo Viola by composer Derek David, written in reverence to the unaccompanied masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. Rather than imitation, David offers conversation. His Partita draws on personal experiences shaped by friendship, love, devotion, alienation, longing, mental illness, and tragedy during a specific period of his life. These emotional states are translated into music of striking intimacy, where lyricism and fracture coexist. Morrison guides the listener through this landscape with unforced authority, allowing each movement to breathe, to question, and ultimately to resolve in its own quiet eloquence.
— Jesse Morrison
I am so thrilled and excited to announce that my Partita for Solo Viola will be featured on Jesse Morrison's upcoming Album "Transitions," available on **FEBRUARY 27** on ALL streaming platforms. The album is beautiful throughout, and I'm incredibly honored to have been included in this meaningful project!
Writing for (and working with) Jesse has been an incredible experience. Take a listen to the preview track below!
February 27, 2026 | Transitions Album Release!
Violist Jesse Morrison's Transitions, featuring A Partita for Solo Viola, is released on Wolfe Records and available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp.
For more information about Jesse’s Project, Read Here.
