Dennis Eberhard is one of America’s leading composers. His Shadow of the Swan is an electrically-charged work which captures a tragic moment in time: the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea in August 2000. Colourfully orchestrated, the music expresses the full gamut of emotions from a densely textured polyphonic intensity reminiscent of Witold Lutosławski to an introspective tonal simplicity that recalls the music of Arvo Pärt. The concerto was written especially for the pianist Halida Dinova and is described by Eberhard as a ‘celebration of our indomitable human spirit.’ Prometheus Wept was written in remembrance of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truly eclectic in inspiration, it combines Greek mythology with biblical text, expressed through chant inspired by the Russian orthodox Liturgical tradition.