CLOSE WITHOUT TOUCHING  for Solo Violin and Chamber Orchestra

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By Kostia/Arranged by Fred Morden

Duration:  2’38”

Orchestration:  1 hrn/1 perc-tmp-pno/Solo Violin-Strings

Beautiful vehicle with which to show off a violinst.  Simple in structure and emotionally direct, audiences love this piece. 

Kostia, birth name Konstantin Efirmov, is a new age pianist and composer born in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Trained at the Rimsky/Korsakov Conservatory, he performed in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia before moving to the United States in the late 1980’s.