Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Performed by Deon Nielsen Price, piano, Berkeley Price, clarinet and Nancy Roth, violin
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP). All right reserved.

"This piece was composed using classical sonata form as a point of departure for a modern tonal and rhythmic palette, and each of the three movements evokes a distinctive mood. 

The Allegro introduces a strong theme, first heard in the clarinet and then developed for all three instruments throughout the movement. A quiet piano entrance begins the Adagio, an unabashedly romantic gesture that gradually builds with a lyrical, ascending line. The third movement, Vivace, is a fun, raucous sort of gypsy dance that cavorts through bitonality and shifting meters and ends the entire Trio with a big grin."

This award-winning piece has been heard in concerts across the U.S. and in Europe. The Price Trio gave the piece its British premiere in July 1999 at St. Mark's Hall in London, as a featured American work at the International Congress of Women in Music, and was also the ensemble which performed it at a 2002 concert held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/TrioforClpg1s.html

Trio For Clarinet Violin And Piano: Adagio

Trio For Clarinet Violin And Piano: Adagio - Shapiro - Price Duo and Nancy Roth

Featuring his first cello concerto two beautiful, elegiac works for solo oboe and strings and solo violin and strings and the powerful Cascade-Concerto for Orchestra, Knehans—Concertos is a disc for anyone who enjoys beautiful, energetic orchestral music. 

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Drift

I named this piece Bioplasm because "Oozing Up From the Primordial Sludge" seemed a bit long for a title. Bioplasm is the stuff of life, the germinal matter that's essential for living beings to generate. This is a squishy piece: rather than exploit the individual voice of each flute, I wanted to create an organism that oozes across the sonic floor as one tethered entity, sometimes slowly, sometimes at a quick pace, but always as one, like a Slinky toy. The blend of homogenous sound with four flutes is a throbbing pulse of life; add to this four human voices, and it's a choir of plasma, looking for life to begin.

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Alex Shapiro - Bioplasm

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Alex Shapiro - Desert Notes (2001) for oboe, bassoon and piano

Performed LIVE at Palacio de Congresos, Granada, Spain at the 2019 International Double Reed Society conference.

Dr. Casey Knowlton, oboe
Dr. Jacob Goforth, bassoon
Dr. Galen Dean Peiskee, Jr., piano

Alex Shapiro - Desert Notes (2001)

Of the many, many people named Alex Shapiro out there, I am most likely the only one who composes chamber and electroacoustic wind band music AND who used to breed pythons. Others may claim to have done one, but not both.

Music. Nature. Laughing. Eating well. Friendships. And lots of other fun stuff, too. In no particular order. Unlike the music I compose, the notes of which are definitely in a particular order. If you want to know more about my life as a composer, please visit http://www.alexshapiro.org . And if you want to know where all these notes really come from, please click: http://www.notesfromthekelp.com . Thanks!


Trio For Clarinet Violin And Piano: Adagio - Shapiro - Price Duo and Nancy Roth

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