INSTRUMENTATION:
1 x Piano
1 x Violoncello
Program Note:
ENDLESS ROMANIAN TRACES for Cello and Piano was commissioned by Julian Armour.
The composition commences with the famous Romanian dance tune Perinitza, introduced by the piano. My music evolves from a fusion of lyrical, evocative, cheerful and pleasant aural memories.
Their resonances derive from the poetic and vibrant force of the specific Romanian dances and from my own perception, leading to a metamorphosis fitting at the concert hall.
I intend to transform original melodies once common to the many into music uncanny yet. This musical "alchemy" invokes time, fate, necessity, circumstance, and human transgression. It reflects the relationship between place and persons; history and imagination. I try to blur the distinction between what is found and what is made; between what is intended and what is meant; and between what we are led to hear and what we might finally know, researching the notion of folklore tunes as a site of aural memory and a reservoir of human experience.
I enhance the structural ambiguities in the work itself, and across an ample breadth of materials and techniques, while retaining the cohesive aural vision of the whole.
My music expresses a phantasmal itinerary for an eternal voyage into a totally changed, amazing world. - Dr. Maya Badian

Endless Romanian Traces For Cello & Piano by Maya Badian

Program Note:
CONCERTO GROSSO for four timpani, and piano by Maya Badian. 
The three-movement Concerto: I. Allegro-Sonata II. Serenata III. Toccata.

II. Serenata, the second movement, is a reflection of the Romantic period, containing a rich theme simply presented, in a few bars, by the strings. In this movement, the only contribution of the solo timpani comes in an abstract and unusual glissando passage.

Concerto Grosso for 4 Timpani & Piano: II. Serenata by Maya Badian

Program Note:
Deeply shattered with the dreadfulness of the Nazi Holocaust, its meaning and implications for our times, I composed the Symphony Holocaust - In Memoriam in memory of the Holocaust victims. “The Fifth Son” Elie Wiesel’s novel is the source of inspiration for this work. The tragedy and the depth of this Symphony are suggested by two themes that symbolize Life and Death as an obsession: The first one, inspired by a Hora Lunga, a folklore melody from Sighetul Marmatiei, Maramuresh district, Romania, recalls the place where Wiesel was born. Metamorphosed and leading towards the second theme, this melody symbolizes Life. The second theme, inspired by the song From Suffering Through Hope To Victory, which Jews murmured in the concentration camps, symbolizes Death.
I consider my music a message for peace, love and harmony between people. - Maya Badian
“Dear Maya Badian,
I listened to your music and was moved by its pain as well as by its warmth.”
- Elie Wiesel, writer,
Holocaust survivor

Holocaust In Memoriam Symphony: II. Fugue by Maya Badian

Lucille

Something Inside My Head

While Your Heart

Tomorrow

W. A. Mozart: Rondo Alla Turca (Arr. by Maya Badian For Xylophone & Piano)

Drum Improvisation

One, Two, Three

All Right In The Night

Dr. Maya Badian is a Contemporary Classical Music Canadian Composer of Romanian Origin. 
Maya Badian has more than 100 published original compositions including symphonies, orchestral music, concertos, cantatas, chamber music, music for multimedia, and musicology and pedagogy works. All her works are published and internationally distributed by Lucian Badian Editions. Her musical output is part of the collections of international libraries, such as Library and Archives Canada, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Bibliothèque Božidar Kantušer, Paris, France, and of many music libraries across Canada, the USA, Europe, Australia, Japan, and National Library of New Zealand. 
”Maya Badian is an important composer, if it does not use some of the extreme devices discovered by earlier 20th century composers, Badian’s music does reflect the accumulated wisdom of a century of experiment and invention.” – The Ottawa Citizen
Dr. Maya Badian have her life and achievements reflected in an international biography work: The Life and The Music of Maya Badian, A Privilege to Soar by Fred Popovici, Pro ARS Publications, Ottawa, 2010.
“An internationally acclaimed composer” – as described in Orchestral Works CD Review, Winnipeg Sun, 1999.
Dr. Badian is a member of the Canadian Music Center, Canadian League of Composers, Association of Canadian Women Composers, Ottawa New Music Creators, Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists, Union of Composers and Musicologists of Moldova.

Endless Romanian Traces For Cello & Piano by Maya Badian

Maya Badian, Composer

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