Schwartz, Julia: Aus den Schatten (2005)
This short piece is a good companion for Beethoven’s Gassenhauer Trio. It was premiered by the Avalon Trio in Switzerland.
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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Schwartz, Julia: Aurora Empor (2006)
This piece was commissioned, recorded and performed numerous times by Switzerland’s premier pan flutist Urban Frey. It also works well with the transverse flute. From the CD booklet notes: “During [...]
Schwartz, Julia: Wind Up & Unravel (2015)
This is a piece with several discrete episodes that are sometimes separated by a break, and sometimes merge with each other. It would be a fun and challenging piece for [...]
Schwartz, Julia: Dante’s Dream (2020)
In the mid 2000s I prepared a choral piece using a fragment from Dante’s Divine Comedy. It turned out to be too difficult for the group I had written it [...]
Schwartz, Julia: Stolen Goods (2020)
I wrote Stolen Goods for a competition in which it was stipulated that the piece should have some connection to Beethoven. I had a great deal of fun finding motives [...]
Schwartz, Julia: A Melancholy Break (2018)
Oddly enough, the first version of this piece was for alphorn and piano. I subsequently prepared a version for trumpet and piano, and then a version for violin and piano, [...]
Schwartz, Julia: Denkmal einer Stunde (2022)
This was a work commissioned for a project in Constance Germany for a festival of concerts having to do with paradise. Many passages have an intensive use of whole-tone scales [...]
Schwartz, Julia: Five Fjords (2014)
These lovely and odd poems were a pleasure to set! They should be performed quite irreverently, in the audience’s face so to speak, though exactly.
Schwartz, Julia: Full Circles (2020)
This piece is dedicated to Polish musicians Barbara Łypik Sobaniec and Tomasz Sobaniec, who will premiere it in June 2024 in Switzerland. This often quite humorous piece contrasts the sustaining [...]
Seif, Sami: Meanings | معاني (2021)
Meanings | معاني derives its material from my string quartet Orientalism (2020, rev. 2021). In Orientalism, the violins and viola play soli based on this material (the cello has a [...]