Orchestral Compositions by Dr. Maya Badian

Dr. MAYA BADIAN - ACWC

Piano Concerto 
I. Childhood
II. Romance
III. Loneliness in an Individual's Life
IV. Life's Challenges
V. Life's Struggles
VI. Life's Memories
VII. Life's Cycle

Instrumentation: solo with full orchestra
pno. solo/ 2-2-3-2/ 2-3-3-0 /timp/perc(2)/str.

Performers: 
Piano: Peter Tiefenbach 
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey 
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra 
Composer: Maya Badian
Duration: 8 minutes
Location: Winnipeg
Date: February 7, 1999
Maya Badian's PIANO CONCERTO was awarded 2nd Prize at 1999 du Maurier New Music Festival, Winnipeg 1999.

Program notes:
Quote from: Maya Badian, Her Life and Her Music: A Privilege to Soar by Fred Popovici, published by Pro Ars Publications, Ottawa, Canada, 2010. "Non multa, sed multum" (not much quantitatively, but qualitatively) is Maya Badian's motto for her Piano Concerto. This 8-minute one-movement opus, an uninterrupted musical flux, consists of seven inner sections (micro-movements). It is concise and simple, yet intense in its meaning. The composer states that this concerto reveals, in each of its seven sections, a different stage of our lives. Maya Badian employs a contemporary idiom, yet places the piece in frames of a somewhat conventional style. This ambiguity changes the coordinates of a classified discourse into those of a highly contemporary approach."

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Maya Badian - Piano Concerto

Concerto for Marimba, Vibraphone and Orchestra by Maya Badian
- Mircea Badian (1967-1989) In Memoriam -
Movements: 
I. Preludio [Marimba] (4:49)   
II. Aria [Vibraphone] (3:47) 
III. Perpetuum mobile [Marimba/Vibraphone] (2:42).

Instrumentation:
Marimba and Vibraphone, soloist (1 player) / 1(picc),1,1,0,asax / 0,1,0,0 / timp, perc(3) / strings.

Performers:
Marie-Josee Simard, marimba and vibraphone   
Jahja Ling, conductor
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 
Dr. Maya Badian, composer
Vancouver, Canada
March 7, 1989
Duration: 11 minutes

Program notes:
“Concerto for Marimba, Vibraphone and Orchestra by Maya Badian is acknowledged as the first concerto ever scored for these instruments in Romanian music history. 
The idea for the concerto came from her son Mircea who, at 20 already a virtuoso percussionist, wanted to perform the world première of the work. The concerto is dedicated to the dearest memory of Mircea Badian, who made tremendous contribution in assisting his mother to compose the parts of the virtuoso percussion instruments.  
I. Preludio (marimba and orchestra). The solo marimba is ingeniously treated as a melodic instrument. The movement is in a free form with the opening theme surrounded by micro-structures of indeterminate pitches, based on different cells from the theme and performed by the four members of the orchestra’s percussion section. These indeterminate sounds gradually become actual pitches, scored for winds and brasses. Transforming music from “noise” into “sound” is a marvellous technique, suggestively named by Pierre Boulez illusions acoustiques.  Toward the end of the Preludio, the marimba solo once again recalls its theme.  
II. Aria, the second movement (vibraphone and orchestra), is built with a pure combination of timbres that justifies the movement’s title. The predominance of solo voices generates the lyric expression of this movement. 
III. Perpetuum mobile, the final movement (marimba/ vibraphone and orchestra), focuses on the virtuoso aspects of both solo instruments, within a complex moving soundscape. The main ideas from the previous movements now include alternations between noise and determined pitch as well as between solos and full orchestra, being presented in a tumultuous vision, and gradually involving the whole orchestra in fortissimo. This approach emphasizes the global effect of this concerto as a strong and powerful statement imbued with subliminal textures. 
This Concerto represents a major work in Maya Badian’s output.” - Fred Popovici.

"CONCERTO FOR MARIMBA, VIBRAPHONE AND ORCHESTRA by Maya Badian explores the virtuosity of the two solo instruments and the technique of the soloist. Like a musical sculpture, this concerto sensitively blends the peculiar timbres of percussion instruments." (E. Douglas Hughes: Promenade Program Notes, March 6 & 7, 1989, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra).

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Maya Badian - Concerto for Marimba, Vibraphone and Orchestra

Canadian Wilderness and Stillness: Symphonic Evocation on the Group of 7

9 tableaux, the name of which were taken in accordance to the inspiring paintings: I. In the Northerland -- II. Sunglow -- III. Red Maple -- IV. For What? -- V. Mist Fantasy -- VI. Baffin Island -- VII. House Tops -- VIII. The Pool -- IX. Red Cedar. 

Instrumentation, full orchestra: 
flute; piccolo; oboe; English horn; clarinet in B-flat; bass-clarinet in B-flat; 
2 bassoons; 2 horns, 2 trumpets in C; 2 trombones; tuba; timpani; 2 percussions; strings: violin 1; violin 2; viola; cello; double-bass.

Performers: 
National Symphony Orchestra of "Teleradio-Moldova" Company
Conductor: Gheorghe Mustea 
Composer: Maya Badian.

Date & Location: "The Days of New Music" International Festival
Ginta Latina Cultural Centre. 
Kishinev, Moldova, 25 June 2005

Programme note: 
“The Canadian painters known as the Group of Seven are historically recognized as having a significant impact on the Canadian Art movement and forever changed its style and spirit.  The symphonic composition Canadian Wilderness and Stillness is based on the composer's  thorough research of techniques used by The Seven Painters, reflecting their creative visions into her music. The sections of my composition are linked by a leit-motive as a virtual representation of the vastness of Canada.  Each section symbolizes another aspect of the unique nature of each of these Canadian painters, using a variety of techniques, to suggest my musical ideas." - Maya Badian.

“Dr. Maya Badian has done much to make us aware of our own heritage. As a composer, Badian has achieved wide international recognition." – Dr. Elaine Keillor.
 
"Maya Badian is an important composer." – Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen.

The panorama of Maya Badian’s music defines her distinct style. Somewhat analogous to the paintings of the Group of Seven, each section involves a special compositional technique approaching, one by one, a different human universe. Sincere congratulations for this creation that delighted our ears and our souls.” 
- Ghenadie Ciobanu, composer.

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Maya Badian - Canadian Wilderness and Stillness: Symphonic Evocation on the Group of 7

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.

Dr. MAYA BADIAN - ACWC

MAYA BADIAN, Composer