Dancing Shadows by Jonathan Anderson

Dancing Shadows was written for the world renowned marimba artist Hiromi Kamiya. Dancing Shadows was actually a challenge I had laid out for myself: Variations on an incredibly simple theme. The theme is literally three notes long. You can hear it repeated a seemingly endless number of times in the very beginning of the piece. The title came to me as the imagery of shadows from candle light flickering on the wall. It seemed to suit the little three note theme quite well. 

Dancing Shadows is a new work for solo marimba by Jonathan Anderson. Written for virtuoso Hiromi Kamiya, this piece varies between very fast paced “groove” type work and chorale sections to create a unique, intriguing piece for solo marimba.