Contrabass Clarinet

Décombres(2006) for contrabass clarinet and electronic. Alain Billard, clarinet

Martin Georgiev, A Seasong (2011)
for Symphony Orchestra
performed by Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, London
Martin Georgiev cond.
Part of Symphonic Triptych No.2 ‘Sea Songs’

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A Seasong (2011)

Metal contrabass clarinet : Alain Billard
Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Susanna Mälkki
Electronic : Yann Robin / Robin Meier / IRCAM


Art of Metal III (2008, 25'), for metal contrabass clarinet, ensemble and electronic

Metal contrabass clarinet : Alain Billard
World premiere 
Espace de Projection, Ircam, Paris

Art Of Metal II (2007, 11')

Live in Freiburg 08 Septembre 2016

for Soprano and Contrabass Clarinet

Live in Freiburg

Mélodie / Marc MONNET

Martin Georgiev (1983)
Soul Searching - Contrabass Clarinet Concerto (2016)
dedicated to the victims of terrorism
(chamber version)
Scott Lygate - Contrabass Clarinet
Frosch Quartet - Negina Stoyanova, Petia Dimitrova, Maria Valtchanova-Liubenova, Viktor Traykov
Margarita Kaltcheva - Double Bass
Martin Georgiev cond.

European Music Festival 2017, City Art Gallery Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria 

Мартин Георгиев (1983)
Търсейки Душата - Концерт за Контрабасов Кларинет и Струнни (2016)
посветен на жертвите на тероризма
(камерна версия)
Скот Лайгейт - Контрабасов Кларинет
Струнен Квартвр "Фрош" - Негина Стоянова, Петя Димитрова, Мария Вълчанова-Любенова, Виктор Трайков
Маргарита Калчева - Контрабас
дир. Мартин Георгиев

Европейски Музикален Фестивал 2017, Градска Художествена Галерия "Борис Георгиев" Варна, България

Soul Searching - Contrabass Clarinet Concerto

“Cluster” is a music series devoted to sound investigation with a particular focus on contemporary languages, new music and extended techniques. “Cluster” supports the collaborative work and aims to offer an exchange platform for musicians, composers and electronic music performers in Berlin-Treptow.

Composed by Franco Donatoni
Performed by Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Recorded on November 11 2018 at Labor Neunzehn in Berlin

Franco Donatoni, Ombra II (for contrabass clarinet)

Missa “Ecce ancilla Domini” -- Guillaume Dufay (c1400–1474) / The Advent Choir / Elise Groves, Clare McNamara, Francesco Logozzo & Glenn Billingsley, soloists / Mark Dwyer, conductor /

2020.02.02 Candlemas

Dufay-Missa 'Ecce Ancilla Domini' Sanctus & Benedictus / The Advent Choir

Stace and I both studied at the University of Huddersfield at the same time. He taught me a bit of software, cubase I think, in order that I could make a fixed electronic version of Jonathan Harvey's 'Ricercare una melodia' ; I played in his student brass ensemble composition- possibly the first microtonal piece I ever took part in; he controlled the amplification of my piccolo trumpet in a performance of Stockhausen's 'Oberlippentanz'. This piece has quarter and eight-tones dotted around in a 'harmonic cloud' resulting from a pointillistic approach.

'Microtones present various, interesting problems for the modern musician. Not only do they raise the question: can these microtones be performed harmonically and/ or melodically on a given instrument and by a particular performer? But also, how should they be notated?

Prelunit has been composed for Stephen Altoft to play on his quarter-tone trumpet. I wrote it having studied the guides he and the composer Donald Bousted published as well as after having many discussions with them about microtonal music.

In composing Prelunit I have attempted to keep the notation as clear-cut as possible. But have tried to also consider the view that a musical work can concurrently be virtuosic, complex, simple, beautiful and aesthetically challenging'.

Stace Constantinou, 29 June 2020.

Stace Constantinou 
Musician, composer, producer, teacher/ lecturer, occasional radio programmer maker, sporadic writer. Pianist, cellist, emerging audio-programmer.

Currently working on a new work: A trilogy of post-punk-dystopian-synth-pop with lyrical ideas influenced by Plato, Bacon, G.I. Gurdjieff and various theories around Artificial Intelligence (AI).
https://sconstantinou.bandcamp.com

Recording: Stephen Altoft
Post Production: Donald Bousted

Stace Constantinou - Prelunit (2018)

Composer, Conductor, Komponist für Heidelberg 2012-13 - Composer in Residence to the City of Heidelberg, Germany, Staff Conductor at Royal Ballet and Opera, London

Soul Searching - Contrabass Clarinet Concerto

Martin Georgiev

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