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.

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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.

Profiles for Trombone Solo by Maya Badian

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