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Viola da Gamba

« Kanawa »（鉄輪）for utai and string quartet (2023)

•Commission by Ensemble-no

•Performance by Ryoko Aoki, Tatsuki Narita, Ryosuke Suho, Kei Tojo and Ayano Kamimura

•Live recording in "Contemporary  Music × Noh Vol.10" 30/11/2023 at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall in Tokyo, Japan

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©︎Naoki Sakata

« Kanawa » for utai and string quartet (2023)

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

Viola da gamba: Steuart Pincombe
Performed LIVE in Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory 2010.

NOTE: I apologise for the incessant camera clicking...the reporter there was a bit too enthusiastic the entire time but this movement has less of it... 

Sonata V In E Minor For Viola Da Gamba, Mvt. 1

« Sewing the water » for violin solo

Composition by Naoki Sakata
Commission by Ayane Kawamura
Performance by Ayane Kawamura

• Recording info
Live recording in "Autour de la musique japonaise d’aujourd’hui / n° 8, Ayane Kawamura" on June 34 2025 at  Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris

©︎Naoki Sakata

《水を縫う》- ヴァイオリン独奏のための
作曲 : 坂田直樹
委嘱 : 河村絢音
演奏 : 河村絢音

• 収録情報
ライブレコーディング :「日本の現代音楽をめぐってN°8 ～ 河村絢音」
2025年6月4日　パリ日本文化会館

©︎坂田直樹

« Sewing the water » for violin solo (2024)

5 short movements. Texts (one by me the other a poem by Emily Dickinson)explore being present in a moment even if that moment is a difficult one. 

Silbersee Vocal Ensemble (Amsterdam) and LOD Muziek Theater (Ghent) Premiered in December 2014.

Watch a video of this performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w_uYmFwZ4

'Look Up' for 4 voices, viola da gamba and electronics

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble
commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain

Live Recording, Klangforum Wien

vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble

Breathe

« Call from the deep sky» （深い空からの呼びかけ）for clarinet and piano

•Commission by Kumiko Matsukawa

•Performance by Kumiko Matsukawa (cl.) and Masaru Yoshitake (pf.)

•Live recording in "Kumiko Matsukawa Clarinet Recital Vol. 6" 31/5/2025 at the Kita Kyushu Wel Tobata in Fukuoka, Japan

©︎Naoki Sakata

« Call from the deep sky » (2025)

For piano trio. Written for Trio Ernest 
Violon : Stan Gosset
Violoncelle : Clément Dami
Piano : Natasha Roque-Alsina

Live recording @Salle Bartholoni, Genève, 13.06.25
Artwork by Alina Eydel (all rights reserved)

vite leggère di farfalle, 2025 (excerpt) - farfalla terza

« Vertical echo » for tenor saxophone and piano

•Commission by Duo Némeu

•Performance by Miho Kiyokawa (sax.) and Nanami Okuda (piano)

•Live recording in "Duo NéMeu 2nd recital" 3 (Sun) Nov 2024 at the Keyaki Hall in Tokyo, Japan
©︎Naoki Sakata

« Rusty light » for tenor saxophone and piano (2024)

Commissioned by the Lucerne Festival for the celebration of Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Leonard David Wacker
August 23, 2025, Lucerne Hall of the KKL Lucerne

IMPULSE Hommage à Pierre Boulez

Title Music for the ten-part radio fiction "Pedro Paramo" on Radio France! Starting June 2012

Francoise Daudin-Clavaud, Flute
Arnaud Dumond, Guitar
Florent Jodelet, Percussion
Sebastien Surel, Violin
Philippe Foulon, Viola da Gamba

Bolero - for Flute, Guitar, Perc.,Violin and Viola da Gamba

COUNTERPOINT on the original harp solo Just Passing By 

viola da gamba recording  = www.ernststolz.com
harp recording = ANNE = www.harpandsoul.com
mix = THIJS =  www.teejay.nl

viola da gamba/harp

Rehearsal for the premiere in March, 2013 at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Ere Lievonen, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba.

The introductory fanfare uses a 9-note scale (3+4+3+4+3+4+3+4+3=31 steps) in the so called Orwell temperament. The toccata is in extended meantone, making much use of septimal and neutral intervals, 1/5-tones, as well as commas that 31EDO tempers out, such as 176/175.

The viola da gamba is tuned as follows: The 7 strings are tuned to the standard A1-D-G-c-e-a-d1 (with meantone fourths). The seven frets are placed so that the pitches on the A strings are as follows: (A) Bb B C C# Cx D# E (= 3-2-3-2-2-3-3 steps of 31), enabling 21 pitches out of 31.

Fanfare en toccata voor Fokker-orgel & viola da gamba

Samantha was born in Berkshire (UK) in 1984 and now lives in Surrey. She has worked with numerous ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Silbersee Vocal Ensemble and the Riot Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals in the UK and abroad ranging from the Gaudeamus Festival 2016 (Netherlands), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015, the Aldeburgh Music Britten Weekend 2014 and the Oxford Lieder Festival 2014. In 2013, she was awarded an RPS Composition Prize and was commissioned to write a new work for the Philharmonia Orchestra as part of the Music of Today series. Her solo flute work, Kinesphere, is available on NMC. Samantha is a Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Look Up' for 4 voices, viola da gamba and electronics

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