Elegy (for Violin & Piano) — Jonathan Fitas
With Elegy, everything comes down to two instruments: a violin and a piano, nothing placed between them. The violin sings openly, lyrical and unguarded, carrying the fragile virtuosity of Jonathan Fitas’s classical training — every shift of the hand, every change of bow left audible. Two voices in a room, with air enough around them to breathe.
Jonathan Fitas was a violinist long before he was a composer, and Elegy sounds like a man returning to his first language after years away — speaking it slowly, carefully, meaning every word. The piano keeps its counsel, offering a few grave chords, a little ground to stand on; the violin sings above it with a restraint that makes the lyrical moments land all the harder when they come. It is minimal, but it is not cold. Grief, here, is tender.
This is the second single from A Quiet Place, out 9 October 2026 — Jonathan Fitas’s first fully acoustic project, built entirely around the return to the violin. Here it is pared back until only the dialogue of the two instruments remains.
Sophia Vesna’s hand-painted cover holds the whole feeling: a lone wooden chair — solitude, old age, the wear of time — from which an oak springs back to life, its legs sending roots into the ground and its back breaking into leaf. What was cut and shaped returns, living, to the tree it came from.
Sit with it. It asks for nothing but your attention, and returns it in full.
More: A Quiet Place — the EP · Jonathan Fitas — artist profile