• Daníel Bjarnason
  • Qui tollis (2013)
    (for amplified percussion quartet)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)

Commissioned by The MusicNOW Festival, April 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, for So Percussion in honour of Esme Kenney.

  • 4perc
  • 10 min

Programme Note

Qui tollis is a ten-minute work for four players of amplified percussion and pre-recorded samples. Featuring glockenspiels, vibraphone, marimba, toms, gongs, drums and cymbal, the piece takes its name from text of the Agnus Dei (Qui tollis = who takes).