Dinos Constantinides: Music for Violin Alone

"Constantinides is himself a Juilliard-trained violinist, and he obviously sees the violin fundamentally as a melody instrument. His musical impulses are thus melodic and therefore primarily lyrical, a word he uses in his own program note. Double-stops and chords are employed for expressive purposes, not in furtherance of the working out of contrapuntal designs. As a result, for all of their modernist tendencies, Constantinides’s pieces are melodically rather than thematically driven."

—Jerry Dubins, Fanfare 35:6 (July/Aug 2012)