Two Fleeting Daydreams for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (2015, revised 2017/2020)

Quinn Mason (b. 1996) is a composer and conductor based in Dallas, Texas. He currently serves as the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence. His orchestral music has received numerous performances in the United States by the San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Utah Symphony, NYO-USA, New England Conservatory Philharmonia, and in Europe by the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and many more. He has received awards from the American Composers Forum, Voices of Change, Texas A&M University, the Dallas Foundation, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, ASCAP, the Heartland Symphony Orchestra, Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra and was also named as a finalist for 2020’s Texan of the Year. As a conductor, he studied with Marin Alsop, James Ross, Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Will White, and has guest conducted many orchestras around the country.

From the author: 

“Two pieces for piano, violin and clarinet that describe what I was thinking at the time I composed them. The first movement makes me think of fireworks on Chinese New Year, especially with the use of the pentatonic scale and 'illuminations' in the different instruments in the ensemble. The second movement is my musical impression of the meme 'Sanic', whose catchphrase is 'must proceed at a high velocity'. and which also happens to be the tempo marking for this movement.

-Quinn Mason