Song For Julian by Maya Badian

INSTRUMENTATION:
2 x Violin
1 x Viola
1 x Violoncello
Program Note:
FUGA A QUATRO VOCI for String Quartet is a short fugue that I composed mainly for teaching purposes! Fugues are some of the most beautiful and rewarding pieces to analyze, to compose, to teach, but are also some of the most challenging to perform well.

Fuga A Quatro Voci For String Quartet by Maya Badian

Program Note:
“The Cold War, often dated 1947–1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies. The Cold War began after the success of these countries temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. The Cold War was so named as it never featured direct military action, since both sides possessed nuclear weapons, and because their use would probably guarantee their mutual assured destruction. Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension that could have led to war. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc, maintaining the eastern countries that it occupied, as satellite states. Romania was included as well. The Cold War put its stamps on the entire Romanian population, where I lived before immigrating to Canada to reunite with my family here.
The idea of contrasts between dreams and reality is at the base of my composition.” - Maya Badian.

In The Shadow Of The Iron Curtain solo soprano saxophone by Maya Badian

Reflets laurentiens Concerto for clarinet, saxophone and orchestra
EFLETS LAURENTIENS, concerto for clarinet, saxophone and orchestra
, enriches the repertoire of the clarinet and saxophone as solo instruments in a same setting. “This is still a very rare combination of two solo wind instruments of different tone colours played by the same artist.” - Gerald Corey, National Arts
Centre Orchestra Source of inspiration: The Laurentian nature
Succinct presentation: The Concerto’s movements take their titles from paintings by Montréal painter T. K. Thomas, who is Maya’s uncle:
I. October Sky (clarinet & orchestra), based on an energetic giocoso thematic idea, is ingeniously developed, including different colours of the orchestra in combination with the soloist. Andante serves as a gentle oasis that leads to the
Cadenza a tre. A brilliant accelerando thrusts the musicians into the Tempo Primo.
II. Lake in the Laurentians (saxophone & orchestra) is, in contrast, orchestrated intimately with timpani, percussion, and strings as the only accompaniment
supporting the saxophone. The calmness is a reflection of Badian’s impressions of this lake’s static beauty.
III. Laurentian Rapids (clarinet & orchestra) has the soloist perform on the clarinet as in the first movement, the clarinet symmetrically surrounding the
novel use of the saxophone as a solo instrument. This final movement, filled with an evocative and mysterious rumbling, has an almost cinematic feeling and gives the soloist ample possibilities for solstice abandon. A recollection of this movement’s calm leads to an unexpected and unique percussion solo.
A short solo Cadenza of the solo clarinet prepares the orchestra for a brief brilliant coda marked Allegro.
At the final bar, Maya Badian writes "improvisation libre" - so the clarinettist creates his own interpretation to brilliantly put the closing touch to this colourful
Concerto.” - Professor Gerald E. Corey.
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II. Lake in Laurentians by T.K. Thomas
The middle section
III. Laurentian Rapids by T.K.Thomas
“Reflets laurentiens, concerto pour clarinette, saxophone et orchestre de Maya Badian, est une œuvre résolument moderne, à laquelle nous croyons; c’est assurément une musique à laquelle sa maturité va valoir une place de choix au grand répertoire.”
- Le nouvelliste, Mozart s’impose et Badian impressionne par Roland Héroux, le 9 novembre 1994.

Clarinet Concerto: III. Laurentian Rapids by Maya Badian

Canon And Choral For Srting Quintet

Hymn For ORMTA, Pan Flute Version

Jeux De Tons For Two Flutes & Piano

Fugtive Version For Woodwind Trio

Music & Meditation For Piano

Prayer For Soprano And Flute

Dr. Maya Badian is a Contemporary Classical Music Canadian Composer of Romanian Origin. Maya Badian has more than 100 published original compositions including symphonies, orchestral music, concertos, cantatas, chamber music, music for multimedia, and musicology and pedagogy works. All her works are published and internationally distributed by Lucian Badian Editions. Her musical output is part of the collections of international libraries, such as Library and Archives Canada, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Bibliothèque Božidar Kantušer, Paris, France, and of many music libraries across Canada, the USA, Europe, Australia, Japan, and National Library of New Zealand. 
”Maya Badian is an important composer, if it does not use some of the extreme devices discovered by earlier 20th century composers, Badian’s music does reflect the accumulated wisdom of a century of experiment and invention.” – The Ottawa Citizen
Dr. Maya Badian have her life and achievements reflected in an international biography work: The Life and The Music of Maya Badian, A Privilege to Soar by Fred Popovici, Pro ARS Publications, Ottawa, 2010.
“An internationally acclaimed composer” – as described in Orchestral Works CD Review, Winnipeg Sun, 1999.
Dr. Badian is a member of the Canadian Music Center, Canadian League of Composers, Association of Canadian Women Composers, Ottawa New Music Creators, Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists, Union of Composers and Musicologists of Moldova.

Fugtive Version For Woodwind Trio

Maya Badian, Composer

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