Early Musings presents a comprehensive collection of new works for solo violin composed by American and American-based composers, almost all of whom were born after...

Early Musings presents a comprehensive collection of new works for solo violin composed by American and American-based composers, almost all of whom were born after 1990. Though young, these composers' music speaks to the core strengths of solo violin repertoire, a genre that has represented a prominent pillar in the Western chambe rmusic canon since the seventeenth century. Across it's ten composers, Early Musings remains impressive in it's variety and range of musical expression. In addition to each pieces's strengths, violinist Davis Brooks also succeeds beautifully at embodying the musical landscape of a given composition. To this end, nearly all the album's pieces feature a traditional instrumentation, in so far as they used an unmodified violin, except for one notable outlier. Early Musings is the culmination of a four-month teaching and recording project between violinist Davis Brooks and ten youn gcomposers from Alabama. The compositions achieve a marked variety of styles while all highlighting the same instrumentation and to make it even more special, all composers on this release are students or recent graduates of teh University of Alabama.