A Note From the Composer:
Going into my junior year of high school, I had just started composing. In fact, I hadn’t even written a full piece yet. I had dabbled with the piano some, come up with a melody here and there, and even tried writing a few separate instrument lines together. But it wasn’t until autumn of 2015 that my first full piece of music came into existence. It was originally meant to be a lyrical song, written for a friend of mine, but I never ended up putting words to it (maybe I will one of these days). I don’t remember much about writing it – only that it was done at the piano in my family’s living room. Despite my struggles to complete a piece up to that point, I do know it came fairly easy to me. To this day, it still holds a very special place in my heart as a means of looking back on where I’ve been and how far I’ve come, but also as the official starting point of a new chapter of my life – an era of new music and new purpose. Ironically, despite signifying a new beginning for myself, it sounds like an end, a farewell. And since starting something new is the same as ending something old, after many years of it being unnamed, I finally decided on the title “End of an Era” during my senior year of college.
