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

Host Janna Sailor interviews violist Jesse Morrison about his newly recorded album of solo viola works entitled "Transitions", soon to be released on all major streaming platforms!

The second, fifth, and sixth movements were featured.