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Arkady Shilkloper ft. Dhafer Youssef - Serafima
From Album : Presente para Moscou (2003)

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Arkady Shilkloper & Dhafer Youssef - Serafima

Arkady Shilkloper - Bazaar 1999

Re-premiere of movements from Serenade for Bass-Baritone, Horn & Strings
John-Morgan Bush, Horn
Allyn Hayes McCourt III, Baritone
Derek J. Weagle, Conductor
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016; Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

160920 TNNM

II. Fanfare (Emerson) from 'Serenade'

Written for six horns, Daybreak features a jaunty melody with swooping lines and lush harmonies. A great American journey in just three and a half minutes!

Daybreak

This Panic Feels Like Home (2016)

Recorded by members of the Minnesota Orchestra in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis on 5/25/16.

Remembered for 3 Horns, 2 Wagner Tubas and Tuba

Live recording from the world premiere of Lesions (2017) for clarinet, French horn and cello.
Performers: Paul Dean (clarinet), Peter Luff (horn), Trish O'Brien (cello)
Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
November 12, 2017 

Program notes:
Lesions was commissioned by Paul Dean for Ensemble Q and was written for Paul Dean, Trish O’Brien and Peter Luff.
The term “lesions” refers to regions in organs and tissue which have suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess or tumour. I first heard this term in 2004, when my mother (age 42 at that time) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Multiple Sclerosis. While she had suffered from many disturbing, unexplainable and painful symptoms for sixteen years prior to that, the diagnosis of MS did not bring us any relief or closure.

Virtually every family has a loved one who is suffering or suffered from an incurable illness. While this is a very heavy subject, I believe it is definitely worth talking about, for two simple reasons:

1.	To show those who are affected that they are not alone and that there are millions of people in the world who are going through similar struggles;
2.	To remind those lucky few who have not been affected that we have to keep looking for cures every day.

Lesions is written in four parts that represent four most common stages of dealing with incurable illness: Sadness, Anxiety, Denial and finally Acceptance. The absence of a pause between the last two movements has an extra-musical meaning: though denial and acceptance are antithetical states of mind, many patients find themselves stuck between these two for a long time, sometimes for the rest of their lives. The new reality is too difficult to accept, yet the symptoms are just as difficult to deny.

On this photo: my mum holding me, about 2 years before MS came into our lives...

Lesions (2017) for clarinet, horn and cello

Bad Neighbours (2017) is a 13-minute chamber concerto for two horn soloists and horn quartet, commissioned by Horn Hounds (Peter Luff and Ysolt Clark, Australia). The solo parts are aimed at professional players or graduate students, and the quartet parts are suitable for undergraduate students, though would be engaging for established performers as well. The piece was originally planned for two horns and piano, for the world premiere by Horn Hounds at the 49th International Horn Symposium in Brazil. However, we decided collectively to change the instrumentation before I began composing in order to feature not just Peter and Ysolt but also four of their students at this important international event.

I was born and raised in Ukraine, so you can guess which bad neighbours I am talking about… As the piece is inspired by the (most recent) war and invasion from Ukraine’s ultimate “bad neighbour”, it features numerous musical dialogues, arguments and even fights. It mixes an overall sense of tension and determination with moments of sadness and mourning. Above all, however, it is about fighting for freedom and independence. I embraced my ethnic heritage in this work, consciously incorporating Ukrainian folk modes and angular rhythms from folk dances, mixing them with the characteristic elements of my compositional style, such as jazz influences, metre changes and overall virtuosity. The 1st horn soloist represents Ukraine and has several solo moments which to me sound like singing of Ukrainian folk tunes. 

The recommended positioning of the soloists is opposite each other, with the quartet lined up in one row, in the middle.

This project was generously supported by a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, with valuable in-kind support from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

Performers: Horn Hounds (Peter Luff and Ysolt Clark) and QHorns (Sunga Lee, Nicola Robinson, Melanie Simpson and Jacob Aspinall)

Bad Neighbours (2017), chamber concerto for two horn soloists and horn quartet

Usually advanced studies for French Horn tend to be too difficult. This is the first of 3  etude books for Horn on modes scales not very usual in horn studies, as well as some extended techniques and special effects. All this in easy to play studies where difficulties are not mixed, (if the study is dificult or even very difficult in some aspects, it will be simple on others) and above and of all its always present a great rhythmic component and a lot of fun.
Published in Jully  2010 by Phoenix Music Publications

12 - Matosinhos' Blues (12 Jazzy Etudes for Horn)

Usually advanced studies for French Horn tend to be too difficult. This is the 2nd of 3 etude books for Horn on modes scales not very usual in horn studies, as well as some extended techniques and special effects. All this in easy to play studies where difficulties are not mixed, (if the study is difficult or even very difficult in some aspects, it will be simple on others) and above and of all its always present a great rhythmic component and a lot of fun.

2 - B flat Blues (10 Jazzy Etudes for Horn-BOOK2) 02:10

Usually advanced studies for French Horn tend to be too difficult. This is the 3rd of 3 etude books for Horn on modes scales not very usual in horn studies, as well as some extended techniques and special effects. All this in easy to play studies where difficulties are not mixed, (if the study is dificult or even very difficult in some aspects, it will be simple on others) and above and of all its always present a great rhythmic component and a lot of fun.

2 - Blues in F (15 Low Horn Etudes) 02:15

Ricardo Matosinhos

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