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Johannes Brahms: 6 Klavierstücke, II. Intermezzo. Andante teneramente, Opus 118-2

When writing Trio of Jade, I was looking at the Jade stone, which in its raw state the outside of the stone is very rough and jagged, while in its polished and finished state it is very smooth and sensual. Similarly, Trio of Jade has beginning and ending (outer) sections that have jagged melodic and rhythmic lines surrounding an inner section that has flowing, lyrical melodies and rhythms.

Trio of Jade is published by Universal Edition. For scores and parts, please visit:
https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Trio-of-Jade-for-Tuba-Cello-or-Bass-Viol-and-Piano/P0359321

Trio of Jade for tuba, cello and piano

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is back for its ninth season, featuring performance highlights from the Walk Festival Hall stage in Jackson Hole.

Episode 13 features:

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor

Detlev Glanert
Weites Land

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Live from the Grand Teton Music Festival is hosted by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles and GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. Episodes premiere on Wednesdays at 8 PM MT on Wyoming Public Radio and are available the next day wherever you get your podcasts.

The Grand Teton Music Festival, founded in 1962, unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each summer. 

Live From the GTMF - S9, Episode 13: Brahms Fourth

Impro sur adaptation de la Danse hongroise 5

Johanna (Brahms)

Double Heads Variety Hour presents " Nominative Determinism," where pirate DJ Villain Minacci presents a playlist combining Rocksteady and Bruckner. He schemes with his minion, facilitates a funeral for a fly, disappoints a superfan, and gets into legal hot water with the station's lawyer.

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Rhapsody for Piano is a work for solo piano inspired by the Brahms Rhapsodies. This piece is divided into three sections. The music oscillates between a dramatic, and virtuosic style with parts that are calm, serene and highly lyrical.




Rhapsody for Piano Midi

In this third concerto, I draw profound inspiration from Brazilian Classical Music, of which  Heitor Villa-Lobos obviously is the most notable composer and reference for my writing this piece. 

Instrumentation: Strings (solo), Brass, Woodwinds, Timpani, Celesta and Piano Synth.

Composed and produced by M. Miras.

Concerto For Orchestra n.3 M.M. 76

Going stale

Kritikarti Reviews: MPO End of Season Concert BRAHMS & SIBELIUS, a review by Alex Jatosti

Brahms SQ 4

This a piano improvisation on Brahms famous lullaby. I added bass and drums, but it's basically a quiet mediation, reharmonized in as jazzy style but without overdoing it—keeping the essence of the tune intact.

Brahms Lullaby Improv-Trio

Johannes Brahms Symphony N°  3 in F major TECHNO COVER REMIX

Get sheet music to this piece here: https://andrewkierszenbaum.com/sheetmusic/p/intermezzo-2025

Contact/Official Website: https://andrewkierszenbaum.com/

Upbeat, march-like piece for solo piano composed by Andrew Kierszenbaum in 2025. Inspired by the great intermezzos by Brahms.

Intermediate to advanced difficulty. Duration: approximately 3 minutes (5 pages).

A. Kierszenbaum - Intermezzo (2025)

A theme and variations piece on Brahms' lullaby composed for an undergrad 'Introduction to Composition' class. Premiered in Chicago in 2008. Composed by a Brahms worshiper, the piece includes many obvious and subtle references to Brahms' (and Rachmaninoff's) works.

Variations On a Theme By Brahms

Serenade (Brahms)

The mission of the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) is to engage, entertain, educate, and inspire our resident and seasonal communities through exhilarating musical experiences. GTMF fulfills its mission through 150 concerts, education activities and community events each year.

The main driver of GTMF’s impact is its annual summer festival held in Jackson Hole each July and August. The Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles is its heart and soul. This “super group” of more than 220 classical musicians from 75 major orchestras and 55 education institutions around the world performs eight weeks of symphonic and chamber music concerts in GTMF’s acclaimed Walk Festival Hall. 

Festival musicians also support GTMF’s community impact, widening access to music by participating in GTMF’s free education and community engagement programs. The Festival also welcomes some of the most sought-after soloists and visiting artists in classical music today.

During the summer, GTMF augments the Festival Orchestra’s concert and community programming with:

*Chamber Music Series featuring Festival musicians
*Performances by non-classical artists and ensembles
*Free community engagement programs presented by resident Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich

GTMF stays connected with people year-round through concerts in Jackson’s Center for the Arts, presentations of the Met Opera in HD, select digital programming, and free events for Jackson students.

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Is two heads better than one? Part music discovery, part comedy, and part educational, DHVH is an experiment presented by two DJs.

Double Heads Variety Hour airs every Thursday from 6-7pm DHST on KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin, TX. Fore more information, follow them on Instagram at instagram.com/doubleheads.

We write reviews not to please, but to engage, challenge, and push artistic discourse forward. We don’t do fluff. We don’t do safe. We do critical, honest, and informed writing that respects the work but never sugarcoats it.

Amateur musician, professional scientist who composes a piece every several years based on what he learned from undergraduate music theory classes nearly 20 years ago. The composer is not responsible for auditory and mental damages caused by bad counterpoint and illogical harmonic progressions featured in his work.

Matheus Miras was born in Campinas, Brazil, in 1997. He began studying guitar at the age of 9 and piano at 10. At 13, he became interested in composition through the music of J. S. Bach, marking the beginning of his artistic output. Since then, Matheus has composed over 200 pieces for various settings, such as piano, harpsichord, string quartet, string orchestra, wind quartet, symphony orchestra, SATB choir, electronic and experimental music. Miras' work is mostly polyphonic and contrapuntal in nature, though his craft is often extremely exploratory.

Starting in 2017, he studied classical piano with professor Norberto Égon Osis and classical violin with professor Antônio Carlos Gomes at Instituto Musical Souza Campos in Campinas. At the same time, he taught himself cello. In 2019, he pursued a degree in Musical Composition at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he was exposed to various styles, such as electronic, experimental, and atonal music, studying under professors like José Augusto Mannis, Jônatas Manzolli, Luiz Henrique Xavier, Suzel Ana Reily, Leandro Barsalini, Fernando Hashimoto, Paulo Adriano Ronqui and Carlos Fernando Fiorini.

Long story short: everything from solo piano to pop to orchestral film.  I wish I could focus on one thing but can't because I'm a MUSICIAN.

🎹 Composer • Songwriter • Pianist
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🎵 New song “After We’re Done” out NOW

Aaron Alter is a composer from Carlsbad, California.  His new music, which he calls his "New Beginning" is an exploration of a new style and energy that defies categorization.    

A native of Chicago, Aaron Alter's musical background was a product of the rich musical life that he found growing up in the Windy City.  While a high-school student, Aaron studied Jazz Piano with Alan Swain and Classical Piano with Helen Engler at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. For two years, while in high school, Aaron played piano in a band led by the legendary Chicago-based saxophonist Fred Anderson (Aaron's work for violin and piano, “For Fred” was written in memory of Fred Anderson.) Aaron received his Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied piano with Frances Larimer and Gui Mombaerts, and composition with Lynden DeYoung and David Noon. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt and James K. Randall.  

After a long hiatus, Aaron re-emerged in 2012 with a new style and energy to his compositions, which he calls his “New Beginning.” Aaron's new music was first performed in 2015, with the performance of “Homage to Josquin” for two flutes, piano, electric bass and drum set by The New Mexico Performing Arts Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Homage to Josquin” received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 American Prize competition for Chamber Music Composition.

Aaron Alter's music is published by Universal Edition and SilverWinds Publishing.

Works such as "Solar Rays" and "Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry" defy genres and exist in Classical ensemble and Jazz Big Band versions. Both the classical piano trio (piano, violin and ‘cello) and Jazz Big Band versions of “Solar Rays” have received Silver medals at the Global Music Awards. Solar Rays for piano, violin and 'cello is published by Universal Edition. Aaron’s Introspective Blues #1 for Flute and Harp has become his most popular work, with over 53,000 plays on Jango Internet Radio and over 27,000 plays on SoundCloud.  Aaron’s music has been featured on the albums “One Minute”, “Two Minutes”, “Gimel” and “Daleth”, by the flutist Iwona Glinka on the Sarton and Phasma Music labels, all of which have won Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards.  In 2019, two albums containing Aaron's music were released by Iwona Glinka on the Phasma Music label, "Four Minutes" and "Zayin." The world premiere recording of Aaron's Piano Sonata (inspired by Beethoven), was released by the pianist and Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger on her album, "American Melting Pot" in 2020 (the 250th anniversary year of Beethoven's birth.) "American Melting Pot" received a Gold Medal at the 2020 Global Music Awards.  Aaron Alter's Piano Sonata (inspired by Beethoven) is published by Universal Edition. In 2021, Phasma Music released five new albums containing Aaron's music, "New Music for String Quartet", "Lamedh",  "Kaph", "Teth" and "Lament for Theodore Antoniou." Also in 2021, Composers Concordance released an album called "The Process Sessions #1 with Aaron's "Lament, Prayer and Renewal" for tenor saxophone and electric guitar, which was inspired by the COVID pandemic.

In 2023, Phasma Music released a recording of Aaron's Vival-departures for String Orchestra (inspired by the music of Antonio Vivaldi) on an album entitled "LVIV 1" by the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine. “LVIV 1” won the “Best Classical Recording” award from the 2023 Clouzine International Music Awards. Vival-departures fuses the influences of Vivaldi's music with Blues and Rock music and is published by Universal Edition. In March, 2023, Aaron Alter's Earth Cantata (inspired by the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach) for Chorus and Chamber Orchestra was premiered by The New Mexico Bach Society Chorale and Orchestra to wide acclaim. Earth Cantata was commissioned by The New Mexico Performing Arts Society and is published by Universal Edition. Earth Cantata was named as a National Finalist Honorable Mention in the 2024 American Prize, Major Choral Works Composition division and a Silver Medalist (for Outstanding Achievement in Composition) at the 2023 Global Music Awards.

On October 4, 2024, Composers Concordance Records released a new album called "Spontaneous" by the CompCord Quartet containing Aaron Alter's First Time Meeting for Clarinet, Violin, ‘Cello and Piano. First Time Meeting is published by Universal Edition.  On December 12, 2024, Phasma Music released a recording of Aaron’s Trio of Jade for Tuba, Cello and Piano as part of a new album, entitled Visions d'Athènes on all streaming platforms.The Steinway artist, Susan Merdinger, will give the premiere of a new solo piano work that Aaron wrote for her in a series of many concerts throughout the U.S. in 2026.

Aaron is a regular contributor of compositions to the repertoire of the flutist Iwona Glinka, the pianist and Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger, the Cracow Duo, the ÉxQuartet, the pianist Vania Pimentel, The New Mexico Performing Arts Society and Composers Concordance in New York. 

Aaron also serves as an Executive Board Member of the Carlsbad Friends of the Arts and is the former Chair of the Carlsbad Arts Commission.

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