clarinet
Clarinet Quintet
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Clarinet Quintet (2006, rev. 2008)
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objects are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed archs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objects are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed archs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.
Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
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Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (2006)
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb), piano
Duration: circa 9 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by Center for Portuguse Studies University of California Santa Barbara. Premiered on February 9, 2007, at the Hatlen Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Premiere performance with clarinetist William Powell and pianist Bryan Pezzone.
Program Notes:
Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano draws many different shades of musical character. The first movement irradiates a vibrant interplay between the two instruments with an almost endless rhythmic energy, with gestures scattered between the players and full use of each instrument’s note-range. The second movement takes the listener to a contemplative space of long, soothing lines, and fluid gestures. The last movement drops the listener in a perpetual movement of fast, interwoven, mysterious lines that come to a rest when the last note is finally reached.
This piece was commissioned by the Center for Portuguese Studies of the University of California Santa Barbara as a tribute to Dr. José Blanco.
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb), piano
Duration: circa 9 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by Center for Portuguse Studies University of California Santa Barbara. Premiered on February 9, 2007, at the Hatlen Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Premiere performance with clarinetist William Powell and pianist Bryan Pezzone.
Program Notes:
Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano draws many different shades of musical character. The first movement irradiates a vibrant interplay between the two instruments with an almost endless rhythmic energy, with gestures scattered between the players and full use of each instrument’s note-range. The second movement takes the listener to a contemplative space of long, soothing lines, and fluid gestures. The last movement drops the listener in a perpetual movement of fast, interwoven, mysterious lines that come to a rest when the last note is finally reached.
This piece was commissioned by the Center for Portuguese Studies of the University of California Santa Barbara as a tribute to Dr. José Blanco.
Periodically Aperiodical - Aperiodically Periodical
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Periodically Aperiodical - Aperiodically Periodical (2002)
Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, premiered by the California Ear-Unit, Ojai Music Festival, 2002.
Excerpt from live performance by the Ear-Unit at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March 12, 2003.
Instrumentation: flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, premiered by the California Ear-Unit, Ojai Music Festival, 2002.
Excerpt from live performance by the Ear-Unit at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March 12, 2003.
Clarinet Etude
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Clarinet Etude [Estudo para Clarinete] (1996)
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb)
Duration: circa 8 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered at Indiana University by Tascha Dzubay.
Excerpt from live recording.
Instrumentation: clarinet (Bb)
Duration: circa 8 minutes
Copyrights: work registered with BMI
Premiered at Indiana University by Tascha Dzubay.
Excerpt from live recording.