Title:	Colours of Autumn
Duration:	10`
Year of composition:	2002
First performance:	Musica Vitae / Tuomas Ollila
	Oct 17 2002, Växjö Concert Hall
Publisher:	Universal Edition

Colours of Autumn was commissioned by the Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitae. The work is based on a citation from Lolita, a novel by the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov: "Autumn was ringing in the air". The piece is ten minutes long in a single movement, built of several variations on the theme. "There are fantastic descriptions of the seasons in Nabokov's works", states the composer, whos compostional method most often starts with textual inspiration. Colours of Autumn is not program music, but rather mental imagery of the quickly changing colours, the fleeting character, the glow and vibrations felt in the crisp fall air.

Borisova-Ollas states: "I wish to evoke the colours of autumn through special variations in tone colour"

Gunilla Petersén