Dear Alba is a piano cycle consisting of 11 short solo piano pieces that seek to encapsulate and pay homage to the natural beauty and allure of the Scottish countryside and its historical architecture by referencing photographs I have taken of locations I have visited while living in and traveling around the country. Similar to a collection of etudes, each piece also explores a different compositional and piano technique spanning from secondary melody and Chopin-esque left hand figurations to pitch sets and varying polyrhythms.

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Fog on Spey Bay (Live) - Dear Alba

Pugin's Nightwatch (Live) - Dear Alba

Edinburgh Castle Guards (Live) - Dear Alba

Aberdeen Dreich (Live) - Dear Alba

The River Dee (Live) - Dear Alba

Dear Alba is a piano cycle consisting of 11 short solo piano pieces that seek to encapsulate and pay homage to the natural beauty and allure of the Scottish countryside and its historical architecture by referencing photographs I have taken of locations I have visited while living in and traveling around the country. Similar to a collection of etudes, each piece also explores a different compositional and piano technique spanning from secondary melody and Chopin-esque left hand figurations to pitch sets and varying polyrhythms.

Premiered by Jae-Ahn Benton

Plight of the Cairngorms (Live) - Dear Alba

Bridge to Tantallon (Live) - Dear Alba

Buller's Edge Live (Live) - Dear Alba

Balmedie Beach (Live) - Dear Alba

Milltimber Woods (Live) - Dear Alba

Through the use of calculated dissonances, frequent syncopation, and polyrhythms, Alarum seeks to personify anxiety in all its forms while also describing the journey of finding one’s identity beginning from a point of cultural disconnection to reaching a sense of community and pride in one’s multifaceted cultural identity in the form of two contrasting Latin American dances.

Premiered by Kevin Vazquez and Jae-Ahn Benton

Alarum (Live)

MAOSNW:I Op.1:Caprice No.9 In E Major-Niccolo' Paganini

"Solitude" is a reflective piano solo written for the upper intermediate level student. Multiple pianistic techniques are employed including hand crossovers, melody projection, and a wide keyboard range. The mood is introverted, passionate, thoughtful, expressive.

Solitude

Inspired by Keith Jarrett's Sun Bear Concerts and the words of Dr. Ross Feller

XLV: legato

XLIV: cantabile

XLVI: finale

XLII: prelude

XLIII: adagio

VISPROINTIAMO No. 9 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 9 for piano

I do music stuff👍👋🎼🎸🎹(bass)

Sophie Moorea is an Argentinian-American composer, arranger, and trombonist from São Paulo, Brazil. With over 10 years of experience in music and dance across three continents, she seeks to highlight shared human experiences and raise awareness of social justice issues through her work.

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

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