Iain James Veitch - Academic Sonata Op. 3 (for piano)

This three-movement, fourteen-minute, Sonata was originally named ‘Sonata for piano’. It was written when I was a student at University College Cardiff.

It was first performed 1979/80-ish by  Richard McMahon in the Music Department’s ‘New Hall’.

A decade or so later, this and three other student sonatas were rebranded ‘Academic Sonatas’ and given opus numbers. 

My thinking behind the use of this ‘Academic’ tag was to differentiate these early ‘student’ pieces from the more recent work I was writing at the time.