Partition for cello and piano by Hayley Jenkins

Hayley Jenkins - Partition for cello and piano (2021)
Lockdown in 2020; normal life stopped. Like many civilizations before us, partitioned, but this time not by war, land, religion, or race, but by something we couldn't see. I was reading about Persia at the time and how despite being conquered and divided by other powers, their culture was something that survived. I realised that communication, arts, and culture were important more than ever before, and that the nature of these conversations and creative outlets needed to adapt and change in order to continue.
Partition is a series of five small moments that are all loosely linked with motif or harmony. The premise is that these moments represent conversations between two people with each person (instrumentalist) contributing differently each time; sometimes it is an equal contribution, sometimes one might be more emotional support to the other, or one is particularly dominant.
Performers Ivana Peranic and Rachel Fryer