for B-flat clarinet and piano

Duration: 6’30”
I. Nostalgia
II. Whimsy

Sonatina for the Inner Child was written for Erin Dowler’s D.M.A. lecture recital with the goal of adding a new work to the clarinet’s pre-college and early college repertoire. When writing, many hours were spent considering my level of playing at the pre-college stage, so my own inner child made her way into this piece of music. As a result, Sonatina for the Inner Child explores two perspectives as conjoined movements: one of nostalgic reflection, and the other of the spontaneity and whimsy of releasing that inner child as an adult with satisfying abandon.

Commissioned and premeired by Erin Dowler