Sebastian Hilli

For trumpet and ensemble
2021

 

Duration
28 min.

 

Instrumentation
tr (soloist), fl (pic & bfl), cl (bcl), perc, pno, 2 vl, vla, vc, db

 

Commissioned by
Uusinta Ensemble and Ensemble Musikfabrik

 

Premiered by

Uusinta Ensemble
& soloist Tomas Gricius
Conducted by Sebastian Hilli
Mar 11 2023
Music Centre
Musica nova Helsinki festival
Helsinki, Finland

Honeymoon is a trumpet concerto in which the soloist functions as a protagonist, narrating a story of love, passion, dreaming and longing.

Through dreaming, the soloist is moving between two different worlds – one of intimate solitude, loneliness, nostalgia and heartbreak, and the other full of life, love, sweetness, lightness and togetherness.

By daring to dream and by surrendering to the stream of emotions, the soloist gets to experience the feelings they are longing for and maybe once had – joy and happiness, tenderness, optimism, infatuation, passion and euphoria.

When the dream ends, a spark is left – a new morning that feels a little bit lighter and more hopeful than the one before.