Helix Nemoralis (2006/07), for E-Bass and Electronic

E-Bass, M.Hettmer 
Electronic and Sound Projection, M.Gentilucci

(Live Recording, SWR)

Helix Nemoralis (2006/2007)

Tamon Yashima: Wärme und Verwüstung | Bassklarinette und Elektronik

Luciano Berio (1925-2003) 
Sequenza VI per viola sola (1967) 

Sofia von Atzingen, Viola 

Videoproduktion: Culiner Creative Circle
Tonmeister: Maayan Franco 

Gefördert von:
Deutsche Musikrat
NEUSTART KULTUR
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)  Sequenza VI per viola sola (1967)

Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Trema für Viola solo (1981) 

Sofia von Atzingen, Viola 

Videoproduktion: Culiner Creative Circle
Tonmeister: Maayan Franco 

Gefördert von:
Deutsche Musikrat
NEUSTART KULTUR
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

Heinz Holliger (*1939) Trema für Viola solo (1981)

for Viola and live electronics, Ilia Chernoklinov - Viola, Jakub Rataj - electronics

Violator (2013)

Scored for: flute, piano, percussion, string quintet
Total Duration: 15:45 min.
Premiere: August 22, 2018, Angelfire, NM at Music from Angelfire Festival: Emma Resmini, Flute; Ida Kavafian and Theodore Arm, Violins; Steven Tenenbom, Viola; Peter Wiley, Cello; Peter Lloyd, Double Bass; Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano; Gregory Zuber, Percussion, Jonathan Coopersmith, conductor.
Commissioned by: Music from Angel Fire with the support of the Bruce E. Howden, Jr. American Composers Project.
Published by: Angelfire Press, Distributed by Black Tea Music. Contact Trudy Chan for score and parts: tc@blackteamusic.com

NOTES: Akin to the Native American Dreamcatcher, the Tibetan sago-namgo (translated as earth door/sky door) entices and captures negative energies so that positive energies can pass through. It is used for blessing and protection – closing the doors to that which does not bring the highest good.  In this chamber work, I focused on the creative process: how some doors open, others close; how some ideas reveal possibility, others get left behind. It is an exploration of creativity and its mysteries as well as more generally about life – what doors have opened to manifest dreams, which ones have closed leading one to follow a new direction. Musical doors may open into sound or silence, movement, spaciousness or surprise. Some melodic passages are “caught” while others undergo development, leading to propulsive rhythms or textures and colors. A humorous section features many melodies striving to go through the doors at the same time, cut off by one of the instruments. Certain musical ideas function as “seeds” or foundations upon which the piece is built however only one of the melodies will open the sky door at the conclusion of the work.

Earth Door/Sky Door Premiere Excerpt

The piece was composed in 2016 . For 2 sopranos, recorder, viola, viola da gamba, guitar and harpsicord.

Mere Air

Impossible sketches for ensemble and electronics

1950-C
for solo guitar with scordatura

Composed 2010 -- Performed by Kobe van Cauwenberghe

PREMIERE: 25 March, 2011 at Exapno, Brooklyn by Kobe Van Cauwenberghe
SCORE: www.babelscores.com

'1950-C' for solo guitar (2011)

adel javadzade - piano
javad javadzade - c-bass

recorded live from music and drama theatre, tbilisi

21.5.2018


I was very much impressed by the skill and creative activity of Javad Javadzade, a young double bass player from Baku, now a principal double bass in the Georgian State Orchestra. For the short period that I know him, he performed five of my compositions, some of which were written specially for him. As a present to him, I decided to compose а sonata for double bass and piano.  I completed the work on 19th January 2018 and dedicated it to him. This is a composition in one movement, about 12 minutes long. I named it “...into the light” because its texture, placed mostly in the low or middle range of the instruments, is coming at the end to the most ethereal and luminous sounds of their register.  The premiere took place on 21st of May in Tbilisi, played by Javad Javadzade and his wife Adel Javadzade (piano). I am grateful to them both for a wonderful performance. 
Dmitri Smirnov

smirnov, n. dmitri - ...into the light (live)

Trio Catch
commissioned by the Contempuls festival in 2019

smirnov, n. dmitri - ...into the light (live)

javad javadzade

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