Joe Galuszka and Friends

written in Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK between Dec. 2020 and April 2021.

recorded by the LONTANO ENSEMBLE
conductor ODELINE DE LA MARTINEZ

wie Götter, op.11, for string quintet (2020-21)

An original composition created for Issue 3 of Folded Zine (https://foldedzine.com/issues/issue-3/cover-i3/), inspired by Jason’s surroundings in Cumbria. Using orchestral and electronic instruments, this piece evocatively captures the beauty of the Lakes.

Reawakening - Folded Zine Issue 3

Delta

Written for & Commissioned by The Cory Band as part of their winning 2015 Brass in Concert programme.
Aristotle's Air won the award for the best New Composition or Arrangement.

Aristotle's Air | 90-second DEMO (Cory Band)

Three Illusions Of Peganum Harmala By Matthew Brown - Paul Beckett Viola

La Vie N'est Pas Parfait

This is my orchestral score for a wildlife documentary promotional trailer. This was a work in which I composed, orchestrated, mixed and mastered the piece within the space of a day.

Wildlife Documentary Promotional Reel

Co-composed with @jamesjoshuaotto.
Mixed and mastered by Oli Jacobs.

The Passage of Time | Will Hyde & James Joshua Otto

Transformation

My arrangement of Bach's Prelude in C, as used on the latest UKTV Natwest ad, Sept 2018.

Natwest - New Ways (arr. of Bach's Prelude in C)

Halloween

A demo featuring Midnight Grand - the new cinematic piano library by Fracture Sounds.

More info at https://fracturesounds.com/product/midnight-grand

Missing Somebody - Tristan Noon - Midnight Grand

;To Find A Harpy'Follow the amazing journey of a mathematician who embarks on a brave journey through the rainforests of Guyana in search for a beautiful and extremely rare animal!

The Journey Begins

Danny Imson

Orchestra Reading Rehearsals
Conservatory Orchestra: Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
Orchestra Hall, YSTCM, Singapore
February 2012
conductor: Danny Imson


Daluyan (Channels)

Score to a silent film where a man draws his final sketch in the open fields before committing suicide.  The solo piano follows the lonely man's motions, as he gets more passionate, and as he signs off his work with a flourish, and as he passes on to a better place.

One of my favourite pieces.  Close your eyes and enjoy.

Logic 10
Sept 2018

The Fall Of The Willow

Forgotten Memorie

Forgotten Memories

Liquorice | Will Hyde

Firekeepers of Kakadu - Opening

A Pilgrim of Angkor 
(1997, rev 2020) for large orchestra

4 (picc./fl./alto fl./bass fl).3 (ob./ob d'am./cor-ang).3 (picc Eb./Cl in A/Bass cl).3 (bsn./2 contra bsn).sop.sax – 4. 3. bass tpt. euph. 2.- 1  hp, pno, 9 perc. – 16.14.12.10.8

Composer’s Note:
The great temple complex of Angkor was reputedly discovered by the French explorer Henri Mouhot in 1860.  The temples hadn’t been fully abandoned, but they were in serious neglect.  Angkor Wat was still home to a group of monks while other temples had been taken over by the encroaching forest.  Why the Khmers gradually left Angkor, once the greatest capital on earth, remains a matter of conjecture.  What is certain is the extraordinary impact it makes today, created by a mix of dimension, intricate detail, symbolic plans, and an environment that mixes man and nature.  

No piece of music can recreate a complex work of architecture, because one is three dimensional and another isn’t!  But the simplicity of fundamental design, combined with the most detailed and abundant imagery is how music is created.  As a result, this work uses ways to evoke, represent, symbolise and guide the listener into an other-worldly place where ritual and exoticism combine.  

The title is a direct translation of the name of Pierre Loti’s famous book about the city, Un Pèlerin d’Angkor (originally published in 1912).  But it is right, because I have been a pilgrim of Angkor for oh so many years, finally visiting the city in 2017, twenty years after this work was created.  © Paul Max Edlin 2020

This electronically created version is for study use only.

Music © Paul Max Edlin 1997

A Pilgrim Of Angkor (1997 rev 2020) - for large orchestra

A Crescent Moon

Joe Galuszka is an emerging British composer, conductor and instrumentalist, hailing from a brass band background and has written a number of works for chamber groups, brass bands and independent films. His score for the Australian wildlife documentary 'Firekeepers of Kakadu' won the London Independent Film Awards in October 2020, and received a Bronze Medal at the Global Music Awards 2021.

Amongst his works for brass band, his tuba quartet 'Pandemic' claimed 1st Prize in When Tuba Come One’s International Composition Competition. Joe is set to release his first EP in 2021, as well as a new work for string octet 'The Liberation of Auschwitz'. He has also been commissioned by Arts Council England, to write a new work to celebrate 100 years of the Bristol-based Longwell Green Orchestra, 'Centenary'.

Inspired by listening to his grandfather play the organ from a young age, Joe entered the world of music during school learning the trumpet, whilst also teaching himself piano. Upon leaving school, Joe went on to enrol at Canterbury Christ Church University where he gaining a 2:1 in music, having studied under composer Paul Edlin, Paul Patterson and the late Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. With his work for string orchestra ‘Adventures’ premiering in 2012, Joe went on to form and conduct the University Brass Ensemble; and composed and arranged music for the bi-annual graduation ceremonies at Canterbury Cathedral.

Returning to education in 2017, Joe later enrolled at the University of Bristol to study his MA in Composition in Music for Film and Television, studying under eminent composers for television, Martin Kiszko and William Goodchild, and is currently studying with the composer for the BAFTA-award winning Netflix series 'The Crown', Martin Phipps. As an instrumentalist, Joe freelances across the south-west of England; having performed with the Bristol Symphony Orchestra and the Flowers Band in Gloucester. He is a tutor and mentor with the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain.

Joe Galuszka and Friends

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