featured composer: kalie akel
Born in 1989 at Belém, Kalie Akel started piano lessons when he was 5 years old, than the violin at 6 years, the cello at 8 years, the viola at 16 a'd the double basse at 30 years old.
His first composition was performed by Ernani Aguilar in 2009, then he moved to Paris in 2012 to study composition with Eric Tanguy, than with Manuel López López.
He is the resident composer of "Festival Violoncelles en Folie" since 2018. Since this collaboration with the cellist and creator of the Festival, he composed several works for cello orchestra, but also chamber music like cello trio, cello quartet, cello solo and with other instruments (violin, piano, french horn, clarinette and others).
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O. Douglas, Samuel: Two Movement Sonata (2011)
The first movement of the Sonata, Rondeau, begins as a five part rondo i.e. A, B, A, C, A. That pattern is then repeated in ever shorter statements. The reduction [...]
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Peck, Russell: Voice of the Wood (2000)
Written by composer Russell Peck, whose well-known string orchestra piece, Signs of Life II, has received hundreds of performances throughout the U.S. and around the world, Voice of the Wood [...]
Pritsker, Gene: What Occured In The Light Goes On In The Dark (2000)
In “What Occurred In The Light, Goes On In The Dark” I was interested in writing counterpoint for the cello. The main melody gets treated as a fugue subject, without [...]
Pritsker, Gene: Never Found Again (2014)
'Never Found Again' takes its title from a quote by Benjamin Franklin "Lost time is never found again". The piece is for solo cello and drone. The drone part can [...]
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Quire, Dex: Everybody Loves You (2022)
The full name of the piece is "Everybody Loves You, Four Bagatelles for Cello Solo". the "You" in the title is my wife, Tess Thomas-Anderson, who seems to inhabit a [...]
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Razaz, Gity: Legend of Sigh [2015] (2000)
Legend of Sigh is a brand new multimedia, immersive piece for cello and electronics written for Inbal by Razaz with video and projection design by filmmaker Carmen Kordas. It was [...]
Razaz, Gity: Legend of Sigh (2015)
Legend of Sigh is a brand new multimedia, immersive piece for cello and electronics written for Inbal by Razaz with video and projection design by filmmaker Carmen Kordas. It was [...]