Traveling Sonata was composed, as one might guess from the title, in moments of wandering throughout my travels (in 2007). Each of the three movements that compose this piece are named after cities in the world that are more or less famous: Bellinzona is the administrative center of Italian Switzerland (also called Tessin or Ticino) - Mottola is a small Italian city in the province of Taranto in the region of Bari, administrative center of Puglia (Puglie) - and finally, Ankara is, as everyone kn...