Luminosity Tomasz Golinski

for marimba

This piece won the first prize of the Universal Marimba Composition Competition 2010 Belgium and it has been selected as a set-piece of the Universal Marimba Competition 2013 Belgium.

Luminosity consists of two movements. The first movement shows a mysterious and dark climate which is reflected in the choral and contrasting rhythmical sections...

The second movement contains many virtuosic, fast and furious sections which can be a challenge for any marimba performer. It shows new technical ideas such as repeated extremely fast single or double notes creating the background for the melodic material which is gradually building up in combination with rhythmical irregularities...