Visconti, Dan: Tangle Eye (2017)
Dan Visconti has written a new cello concerto for cellist Inbal Segev, to be premiered by the California Symphony, where Dan is currently in his final year as Young American [...]
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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Warshauer, Meira: In Memoriam (September 11, 2001) (2013)
I wrote these sketches while watching the horror of the attacks of September 11, 2001: the collapse of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, the plane-crash in [...]
Williams, Evan: Cantigas (2015)
A cantiga is a monophonic, often strophic, song with Galician-Portuguese text from the Medieval period. Many of the cantigas that we know of today come from the Cantigas de Santa [...]
Wolosoff, Bruce: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2018)
"It’s exceedingly rare to encounter a major new work by a living composer which, without widespread exposure over an extended period of time, can be declared an instant masterpiece, but [...]
Wolosoff, Bruce: Cello Sonata No 1: Paradise Found (2020)
Cello Sonata No. 1: “Paradise Found” was composed as an affirmation of life at a time when it seemed like so much in the world was going wrong. In composing [...]
Wolosoff, Bruce: Cello Sonata No 2: Requiem for the Planet (2021)
For my second cello sonata, the commissioning party wanted me to respond to some aspect of climate change through music. My idea was to compose a sort of musical requiem [...]
Wolosoff, Bruce: The Woods (for April Gornik) (2013)
A one-movement piece for cello and piano inspired by the charcoal drawing “The Woods” by artist April Gornik. The piece was commissioned from the composer by Ms. Gornik’s husband, the [...]
Wolosoff, Bruce: Circe (2019)
A lyrical one movement work for cello and piano that is part of an ongoing large-scale work by the composer inspired by The Odyssey.