The images throughout this video adds an extra dimension to Maya Badian's composition, and are correlated with her music.
The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel’s novel, is the source of inspiration for Maya Badian's Holocaust - In Memoriam, Symphony. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, is the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. 
Badian commented: "I composed the Holocaust – In Memoriam, Symphony, in memory of Holocaust victims, and to honour Holocaust survivors." 
The Symphony's two movements are: [1] Preludio (9:05) &  [2] Fuga (6:45)

Orchestral Mirrors of Life

Holocaust – In Memoriam, Symphony by Maya Badian

Maria Livia Sao Marcos Fisch, a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist now living in Switzerland, commissioned to Maya Badian to compose this concerto and Maya’s concerto was very much appraised.
Movements: [1] Moto perpetuo (4:33);   [2] Aria (5:13);   [3] Marcia e Toccata (5:14) 
The individual character of each of the three contrasting movements of Maya Badian’s Guitar Concerto is clearly suggested by each movement’s title.

Guitar Concerto by Maya Badian

Music for ARCHAEUS was commissioned to Maya Badian by Dr. Liviu Dănceanu, founder and artistic director of the ARCHAEUS Ensemble, and it is dedicated to him.
Music for ARCHAEUS, Instrumental Septet for Piano, Violin, Cello, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Percussion 
Movements: I. Moto perpetuo; II. To Archaeus; III. Finale, gradually emerges from an initial pedal on A. Seven pitches soar above this pedal, generating the whole composition.

MUSIC FOR ARCHAEUS

Music For Archaeus: Instrumental Septet by Maya Badian

CHAMBER CONCERTO for Horn and Percussion is, in the opinion of professionals, one of the finest achievements of Badian’s first period, and a revolutionary composition in 1976. This composition incorporates a series of accomplishments through experiments and musical technologies: The piece has the character of a conversation between two personalities represented by the Horn and the Percussion. It is scored for horn and 21 percussion instruments (one percussionist). Its triadic structure implies some rhetorical procedures.

Chamber Concerto for Horn and Percussion by Maya Badian

PROFILES for trombone solo was commissioned to Maya Badian by the International Competition for Young Performers, Vercelli, Italy, in 1978. 
 The title "Profiles" comes from the idea of the meaning of the word "Profile", allowing the performer to create distinctive shapes, outlines, contours, shadows - all of them giving birth to a complete range featuring specific "profiles" of the Trombone, arranged, each, in particular settings. In my composition Profiles, this is exemplified by the participation of the trombone’s inner logic in the building of the macro-structure of the whole musical form.
The melodic contours of all three movements
 I. - FIRST PROFILE;  II. - SECOND PROFILE;  III. - THIRD PROFILE - are unified by the continued use of augmented fourths, sevenths, and semitones. The virtuosity requested of the
performer by this piece is entirely based on the trombone’s characteristics and sound.

Profiles for Trombone Solo by Maya Badian

The music score of Echoes for flute solo can be followed during the audition. 
During the audition, a succinct analysis is also included. 
ECHOES for Flute Solo is part of an open cycle of compositions that I dedicate to solo instruments exploring, at different levels, the idiomatic writing - technical and expressive possibilities - of the instrument, along with the relationship between the sound as a natural, physic element and its metamorphosis into the arts of sounds, the musical meaning. 
Some idiomatic writings used in this composition are: flutter-tongue, glissando, slap-tongue, and many others, while stimulating the flutist’s creativity!

Echoes for Flute Solo by Maya Badian

In MOVIMENTO for Woodwind Quintet, a series of sounds is stated at the beginning as a theme and, then, certain motive ideas are extracted from it. The section Meno mosso is an allusion to the chorale-like style. It is based on composer Maya Badian's original theme, presented in a free canon. She stated: I initially use dodecaphonic serial techniques avoiding the rigid application of these approaches, by adapting them in an innovative manner.
Sections: Allegro assai; Andantino fluente; Allegro assai; Ad libitum un poco meno mosso; Vivo.

Movimento for Woodwind Quintet by Maya Badian

The music score can be followed during the audition.
MONODY for Oboe Solo applies an idiomatic writing for the oboe.
When I compose, I try to identify myself with the instrument for which I write. Even if at first sight composing for a solo instrument appears easier, it is actually more difficult than to compose for orchestral ensembles. 
The composer has to apply parameters generally attributed to an ensemble or to a large orchestra (melody, harmony, polyphony, rhythm, register and other musical parameters) to the single instrument at the composer’s disposal. I also take into consideration the evolution of instruments and their techniques: A lot of features impossible to be performed some decades ago are easily accomplished today! - - Dr. Maya Badian.

Monody for Oboe Solo by Maya Badian

In INCANTATION for Clarinet Solo, Maya Badian applies an idiomatic writing for the clarinet. Some Clarinet Techniques used in INCANTATION include: Tonguing (German: Flatterzunge); Double and triple tonguing; Flutter-Tonguing; Slap Tonguing; Growl; Glissando; Vibrato; Tremolo; Multiphonics; Portamento.

Incantation for Clarinet Solo, composed by Maya Badian

Dedicated to Gerald Corey
Gerald Corey, one of the greatest world-renowned bassoon performers, the former principal bassoon of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) in Ottawa for more than 30 years, engraved on the score: "To Maya, On the occasion of my first performance and recording of your 'Capriccio' for solo bassoon, I want you to know that this composition is now my favorite solo bassoon piece to play for many audiences - it is great!" - Gerald E. Corey, 12 June 2006.

Capriccio for Bassoon Solo by Maya Badian

Dr. MAYA BADIAN is an internationally renown contemporary classical music composer. She is the only Canadian composer of Romanian origin to have her life and accomplishments reflected in the book: The Life and The Music of Maya Badian, A Privilege to Soar by Fred Popovici (Pro Ars Publications).
LUCIAN BADIAN EDITIONS publishes and internationally distributes all of Maya Badian's works.  Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Library Božidar Kantušer, Paris, France; and Library and Archives Canada have acquired Dr. Badian's published works for their collections. 
Library and Archives Canada has requested and preserves Maya Badian's entire output of manuscripts, archival documents and recordings officially titled, MAYA-BADIAN FONDS Mus. 228 (since 1993).
All of Badian's orchestral, concertant, chamber music, and works for multi-media that form Dr. Maya Badian's compositional output, are successfully internationally performed, in public concerts.

MAYA BADIAN, Composer

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