Soliloquies, Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations

For the children of war survivors there are conversations with our parents we wished we had and could not. I often wonder about my parents’ vague allusions to atrocities they survived in China during World War II because their trauma was far greater than I can imagine, even now, over twenty years since their passing. In Soliloquies, I honor their courage by embracing their voices within mine, to sing into our unknowable silence encircling dreams. I am especially playing for my father, who endured multiple strokes, the last of which took his voice. – Jason Kao Hwang

Making full use of every note, and even the spaces between them, Jason Kao Hwang codifies the improvisatory impulse into a musical system that sends the spirit soaring.. Enjoy.