| Composer: | Gregory Kyle Klug |
| Publisher: | Self Published (Firth) |
| Duration: | 00:18:00 |
| Instrumentation: | Unaccompanied Cello |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Work Type: | Unaccompanied Works |
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.
composerbiography: Gregory KyleKlug
Gregory Kyle Klug is a contemporary classical composer and music instructor with a doctorate in music from the University of Northern Colorado. His solo album Diapason, which explores the expressive range and power of the piano, released through a successful Kickstarter in 2013. His compositions and arrangements are published with MMHC Music Publications and his own Firth Publications. Dr. Klug’s research and other writings, furthermore, appear in Search Journal for New Music and Culture, The Journal of the American Liszt Society, The Philosopher Journal, Janus Head, Philosophical Investigations, and ProQuest which hosts his doctoral dissertation on biblical choral symphonies (2012). Dr. Klug’s work is informed by a diverse background: he studied piano performance with Vergie Amendola at UNC, business entrepreneurship as an undergraduate at Long Island University, creative writing with Bharati Mukherjee at the 2004 Southampton College Writer’s Conference, and graphic art with Pam Capozzola in Westhampton Beach, NY. A native Long Islander, he is currently based in Phoenix where he serves as orchestra director at BASIS Ahwatukee and enjoys life as a husband and father of three.