"6 Fugitive Memories" were commissioned by and dedicated to the pianist Nadia Shpachenko, who recorded these pieces with Reference Recordings on “Quotations and Homages” CD album (FR-726, released on April 6, 2018). These short miniatures represent six dedications to composers who have anniversaries in 2016, the year when Nadia premiered this work. I decided to remove my compositional style and instead recall through quotations and allusions the pieces of composers to whom each miniature is dedicated. Thus, Composition No. 1 quotes Galina Ustvolskaya's (1919-2006) Composition No. 1 (Dona nobis pacem) for piccolo, tuba and piano and stylistically alludes to her Piano Sonata No. 6. Fugitive No. 2 pictures Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) and his piano works (Visions Fugitives; Piano Sonatas No. 2, 3). No "N" is a portrait of Morton Feldman (1926-1987) and alludes to the structural principals of his Vertical Thoughts and Triadic Memories. Quasi una ciaccona is a dedication to Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) and quotes her Chaconne. Cimbalom Jatek ("Playing Cimbalom") is a dedication to Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926), who often used this national folk instrument in his music. The title Debutie combines composers' last names and quotes Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Prelude Voiles and Eric Satie's (1866-1925) Gymnopedie No. 1 in a manner of a careless collage, which concludes this cycle of memories.

"6 Fugitive Memories" were commissioned by and dedicated to the pianist Nadia Shpachenko, who recorded these pieces with Reference Recordings on “Quotations and Homages” CD album (FR-726, released