Sixteen years after my first Piano Quintet, this new composition was created for my friends in the Cuarteto Quiroga, and commissioned by Cosme Marina for the 2013-2014 season of the Luis G. Iberni Jornadas de Piano in Oviedo, Spain. Much has changed since that first Piano Quintet, a work very much with a Spanish imprint in rhythms, motives, and energy. After fourteen years in the United States, the 22-minute Piano Quintet No. 2 is a truly American composition, dedicated to the Mississippi River.