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2026
Piano
- Program Notes
- The Bridled Heart is a meditation on the beautiful tension between passion and restraint—the struggle to remain faithful to one's deepest yearnings while honoring the boundaries that shape and protect a life. The music moves between two forces. The first is an unrestrained impulse—playful, restless, at times fiery and unpredictable. It leaps, dances, and surges forward, refusing to be contained. The second is the quiet voice of restraint—measured, reflective, and often achingly tender. It does not silence the heart, but seeks to guide it. Throughout the piece, these forces meet, clash, and reconcile. There are moments of turbulence when longing overpowers control, and moments of stillness when wisdom gently restores balance. The music does not resolve these opposites once and for all, for the human heart is never fully conquered. Instead, it learns—again and again—to be bridled, not in the sense of being broken, but in the sense of being shaped into something enduring. Ultimately, The Bridled Heart is not about suppressing emotion, but about channeling it—about finding the freedom that comes when the heart and the mind walk together.