J. S. BACH - DUET I: e minor, BWV 802

Improvisation for Piano Day 2016 by Michael Ford. #PianoDay
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Rainy Daydream

Bach Coltrane (Alpha Collection)

Concerto No. 5 for Keyboard in F Minor, BWV 1056: Largo (Improvisation)

Graham Reynolds loves to explore narrative in his work. This tendency makes him a natural fit for the film, theater and dance work that form one of the cores to his composing career. In fusing a loose concerto format with the story of Charles Babbage and his invention the difference engine, Reynolds' composing voice finds itself in a work that is intense and driving, beautiful and intimate, personally expressive and broadly accessible all at the same time. Developed over a course of years, the initial ideas for each movement were introduced and inspired separately before being woven into this one piece.

The musical onslaught of the opening movement came to Reynolds during a lecture by LB Deyo on Babbage and his work, inspired by the ferocious pace of both Babbage's thinking and the calculating speed of his invention. The fourth movement was developed in a very different form for the Rude Mechs play "The Method Gun", now touring the country. The fifth movement started as a solo piano piece, an Austin Museum of Art commission, in response to the work of Sol Lewitt. Reynolds joins other alt-classical voices in a 21st century approach that is no longer in rebellion against tonality and melody, nor desperate to prove their validity through focus on a "unique" extended technique, while folding 20th century ideas from clusters to modal harmonies to polyrhythms into a broad vocabulary.

The completed concerto "The Difference Engine" premiered on February 6th, 2010 with a 35-piece string orchestra in a Golden Hornet Project performance at Ballet Austin’s Austin Ventures Studio Theater. Soloists Leah Zeger on violin, Jonathan Dexter on cello, and the composer himself on piano fronted the debut, with parts written specifically for their skill set and personal voices. Those voices were then captured for this CD. Not fully realized in his lifetime, the difference engine was the masterwork of 19th century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, an attempt to create the world's first computer. A remix of each movement forms the album's second half with contributions from DJ Spooky, Octopus Project, Grammy-nominated producer Adrian Quesada of Grupo Fantasma, Golden Hornet Project's Peter Stopschinski, and finally one from the composer himself.

04 Movement IV  Late at Night The Astronomer

That's a piano piece totally improvised, I just sat on the piano and play what spontaneously came out. No sheet music, preparation, or forethought. Just spontaneous composition, in one take. No edit. This is why you may hear some "mistakes" but as Thelonious Monk said: “The piano ain't got no wrong notes.” ;-)
I made it as part of the Piano Journal experimentation, a project created by Jason Dzamba: www.thepianojournal.com

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Leafs' Dance

Gian Marco asked me to record this lovely Berceuse for him - I am thrilled to interpret this gorgeous piece!

Gian Marco La Serra "Song Without Words: Berceuse #2" - Performed by Danaë Vlasse

Gavottes 1 et 2, extraites de la 6ème Suite anglaise de J-S. Bach BWV.811, enregistrées lors de mon premier récital de doctorat, le 13 mai 2013, à la salle Claude Champagne de l'Université de Montréal.

Bach, Suite anglaise BWV.811, Gavottes

Julien Gaudinière est né à Toulouse en 1985. Il débute le piano à l'âge de 6 ans puis intègre le conservatoire de Montauban dans la classe d'Éric Lesage où il obtient son Diplôme d'Études Musicales en piano, solfège et musique de chambre. Il décide ensuite de poursuivre sa formation au Conservatoire de Bordeaux dans la classe d'Hervé N'Kaoua dont il sortira diplômé avec la mention Très Bien à l'Unanimité avec les félicitations du Jury avant d'obtenir son prix de perfectionnement, lui aussi à l'Unanimité du jury. Dans le même temps, pour élargir ses connaissances musicales, Julien obtient un DEUG en musicologie à l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail.

Il décide ensuite de partir poursuivre sa formation musicale au Québec, à l'Université de Montréal où il obtient sa Maîtrise en interprétation, en mai 2012, sous la direction de Maneli Pirzadeh. En mai 2015 il y obtient son doctorat en interprétation avec la mention "exceptionnel".

Julien Gaudinière est récipiendaire de diverses bourses pour l'excellence de son parcours (bourses d'excellence en piano Denise Angers, Bourses de la faculté des études supérieures de l'Université de Montréal, bourse d'admission à la Maîtrise en Interprétation).
Il a eu l'occasion de suivre les master-class de maîtres prestigieux tels A.Kouyoumdjian, Marc Durand, C.Katsaris, Peter Nagy, E.Laloe Ferrer, Thierry Huillet, Louise Sibourd, P.Hantai et a été choisi pour participer, en aout 2012 à l'Internationale Sommerakademie PragWienBudapest, à Vienne, où il a pu se produire et bénéficier de l'enseignement de maîtres viennois.
Passionné de pédagogie, il se partage actuellement entre les activités de concertiste et d'enseignant.