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Piano Concerto
for piano and orchestra

Commissioned by The Orchestra at William Paterson University for pianist Gary Kirkpatrick.

date: 2001
duration: 18:00
premiere: February 16, 2002, Shea Auditorium, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. Gary Kirkpatrick (piano) and the Orchestra at William Paterson University, conducted by Mark Laycock.

“Link’s modernist atonal language reveled in the contrasts he could pull from his different instruments, both individually and collectively.”
—Ken Smith (Newark Star-Ledger)

“daah, daah, dah, dah, di, di, di, diggy, diggy, bippity....”
—Paul Somers (Classical New Jersey)