This is the world premiere performance of Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for cello and piano, performed by the Cracow Duo (Jan Kalinowski, cello and Marek Szlezer, piano) in Kraków, Poland on September 13, 2020, sponsored by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem was dedicated to the Cracow Duo.
To see a video of the complete Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem, please visit the page on my website: https://aaronalter.com/chamber-variations-on-lo-lanu-hashem

Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem are based on my "Lo Lanu Ha-Shem" (a setting of Psalm 115) for Women's Chorus, Flute, Harp, Two Horns, Double-Bass and Tambourine. To hear the original choral work, please visit the page on my website: https://aaronalter.com/choral-lolanuhashem .

Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem are published by Universal Edition. For scores and parts, please visit:
https://www.universaledition.com/en/Variations-on-Lo-Lanu-Ha-Shem-for-Cello-and-Piano/P0216348

Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for 'cello and piano

Yesterday, i recorded this Improvisation in spite of a drilling mashine in the neighbourhood. I didn't want to let it bother me, so i put on my headphones and startet playing " Monsieur Carl Is Straying". Hope you enjoy!

Monsieur Carl Is Straying

I created and sang this text and vocals myself, but a female singer with a warm soft voice would be ideal for this track. Any suggestions?
 
** The Glass Forest **

Now I need  to thank you for this most pleasant evening
in that charming restaurant,
and I agree: Serrated knifes are just perfect for steaks.

Really? What makes you think this road is creepy?
It's dark, for sure,
but it's just a twenty minutes walk to town.
Oh, yes! I've heard about the brutal killings,
the stabbed corpses.
I read the news.
They suspect there are two killers, actually. 

That's peculiar... Do you really want to have right now 
a glass of red wine in this cold dark forest?
Well, why not?
Girls enjoy surprises, you know...

This is a fascinating situation.
You see, I saw you stealing a knife when we left the restaurant,
and I saw you hide it in your jacket.
Now, guess what...
I stole a knife, too.

The Glass Forest (JFC Vocals over Debra Buesking track)

Composer: Gérald Olivieri
Violin and viola by https://soundcloud.com/violin1756
String sessions online: http://www.stringsessionsonline.com/
Mastering : https://soundcloud.com/thecourt

Petit Thème

Had a perfect day today. So perfect, I did not want it to end. 
I stayed up until 3am, playing this improvised jazz piano piece. I hope you enjoy listening to it nearly so much as I enjoyed expressing how a perfect day sounds to me.

Perfect Day - improvised jazz piano

"Our planet doesn't need any successful people anymore. Our planet urgently needs peacemaker, healer, innovator, narrator and Lovers of all kinds." 
                                The Dalai Lama.
2. part of a concert for piano and Orchester in a mix of styles of expressionism, film music and late Romantic.
Composed November 2014; MIDI-Realisation February 2015.

"Metaphysics" Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B flat minor(Mvt.2)

A QUIET MOMENT

A composition I was inspired to write by watching this lovely character Violet in children's books by Stephanie Stickel....
A link to the video is here...

https://youtu.be/-CD7k1B0vyk

Les Aventures de Violet

a frolic in the autumn twilight

Remastered by Houman (https://soundcloud.com/houmans)

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Ethereal

You can almost feel the cold wind on your face isn't? ;)

Video

Ice Wind

Aaron Alter is a composer from Carlsbad, California. His music is published by Universal Edition and Silverwinds Publishing. Aaron calls his new music his "New Beginning" because it is an exploration of a new style and energy that defies categorization.    

A native of Chicago, Aaron Alter's musical background was a product of the rich musical life that he found growing up in the Windy City. Aaron received his Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied piano with Frances Larimer and Gui Mombaerts, and composition with Lynden DeYoung and David Noon. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt and James K. Randall.  

Aaron’s new music was first performed in 2015, with the performance of “Homage to Josquin” for two flutes, piano, electric bass and drum set by The New Mexico Performing Arts Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Homage to Josquin” received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 American Prize competition for Chamber Music Composition.  

Works such as "Solar Rays" and "Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry" defy genres and exist in Classical ensemble and Jazz Big Band versions. Both the classical piano trio (piano, violin and ‘cello) and Jazz Big Band versions of “Solar Rays” have received Silver medals at the Global Music Awards. Aaron’s Introspective Blues #1 for Flute and Harp has become his most popular work, with over 16,100 plays on SoundCloud and over 5,200 plays on Jango Internet Radio. Aaron’s music has been featured on the albums “One Minute”, “Two Minutes”, “Gimel” and “Daleth”, by the flutist Iwona Glinka on the Sarton and Phasma Music labels, all of which have won Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards.  

Aaron has received two commissions in the past two years for choral works with an instrumental ensemble from The New Mexico Performing Arts Society.  The first commission, “Together We Create and Sing! (inspired by the music of Franz Joseph Haydn”) was a semi-finalist at the 2018 American Prize competition for Choral Music Composition and received a Silver Medal at the August 2019 Global Music Awards.  The latest commission, “Lo Lanu Ha-Shem” (a setting of Psalm 115) received a Silver Medal from the March 2019 Global Music Awards.  

Aaron is a regular contributor of compositions to the repertoire of the flutist Iwona Glinka, the pianist and Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger, the pianist Vania Pimentel, The New Mexico Performing Arts Society and Composers Concordance in New York.  

Aaron also serves as an Executive Board Member of the Carlsbad Friends of the Arts.

Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for 'cello and piano

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