Alper Tuzcu is a singer-songwriter doing Study Abroad in Valencia. He made an EP called Between Two Waters last semester, based on Valencia standing at a cultural intersection between the Mediterranean sea and Atlantic Ocean.
This solo piano piece was written to accompany the painting of the same name by Marie-Francois Firmin-Girard. The composition opens in the upper register of the piano...
“The Marvelous Stove” is a tune written in honor of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, after her poem “Sestina.” The stove can be seen as the “all seeing eye” of the house, wise and knowing; the very thing at the …