Kernis, Aaron Jay: Dreamsongs (2014)
1. Floating Dreamsongs 2. Kora Song Written for Joshua Roman.
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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Kernis, Aaron Jay: On Distant Shores (2012)
Written for the Rioult Dance Company, the 2nd movement incorporates Air, originally for Cello and piano.
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Dreamsongs (2014)
1. FLOATING DREAMSONGS 2. KORA SONG WRITTEN FOR JOSHUA ROMAN
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Meditation (in Memory of John Lennon) (2000)
Written shortly after John Lennon's death.
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Second Ballad (2013)
Commissioned by Stephanie Key for David Mollenaur's 50th Birthday.
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Colored Field (2000)
Composed after visiting the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Kilstofte, Mark: You [unfolding] (2019)
Written for and dedicated to the composer's wife, this deeply moving solo work depicts the gradual unfolding of personality that occurred during and through their exchange of handwritten letters. Cast [...]
Klug, Gregory Kyle: Twelve Etudes for Solo Cello (2016)
These intermediate-level cello etudes use aleatory or chance sequences that create technical challenges for the cello student but offer accessible and expressive melodic content.
Ko, Tonia: Hush (2012)
"Hush maps the concept of speech and song onto a duo for percussion and cello. Taking excerpts from Virginia Woolf's short story "The String Quartet," the performers convey the busy-ness [...]