Michaela Nuñez - FIRE STORM

Описание: FIRE STORM is a percussion trio + piano piece that premiered at Brevard Music Center Summer Festival on July 5th 2025 with the incredible performers Frank Bao, Kitty Chao, and Grayson Pruitt on percussion and Yingzhen Zeng on piano. Thank you so much! It was so much fun collaborating with you!

FIRE STORM is about an apocalyptic event in a fantasy-romance book that I am writing where the majority of the human population is wiped out. It is the fourth piece out of a collection of five, three of them being piano solos and one a harp solo.

You start the piece in the city of Inferno, where you are going on about daily life as the sky starts to darken (think dinosaur event!) You hear screaming and crashes and all scary stuff (hence the scary text font). From rehearsal mark F, you are inside a bunker, miles under the ground, as you hear the distant sounds of comets hitting the earth. From there until the end, you are suspended in suspense, hearing the metal walls and ceiling of the bunker shriek, and hoping that the bunker doesn't collapse in on itself under the storm. The piano lid represents the bunker opening / closing, whether it be by the heavy metal door or the metal ceiling breaking. At the end when the piano lid is lifted and there is a sudden crescendo of sound (the 3rd percussionist might want to wear hearing protection when they do this) which represents the ceiling of the bunker collapsing in and all the sound of the FIRE STORM (comets falling) flooding in before everything suddenly goes quiet (which can be interpreted as the listener dying, passing out, or the storm abruptly being over. Up to you!)