Ravel - Oiseaux Tristes

Bobby is een coming-of-age song dat ik ooit schreef voor Fan Fan Balou, een Rotterdamse band met zangeres Nienke Postma. Alis ik me goed herinner waren Ravel Randolfi, Gerard van Zomeren, Rene van Hertum en gitarist Jaap ook bij de totstandkoming ervan betrokken.

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Bobby - Ravel Randolfi

Een meer uptempo versie van het liedje Afscheid, met saxofoon. Later zou dit nog een keer uitgevoerd worden met Gert Visscher als zanger. Ik vind de tekst bijzonder, hoewel meer voor de jaren 80 dan voor nu. Ik luister het graag terug.

Afscheid - Ravel Randolfi

CLAVIS ARTIS
four images for orchestra

1. Telling the Bees
2. Black Madonna
3. Jeliw
4. GIGUE sur le nom de "Maurice Ravel"

CLAVIS ARTIS for orchestra (demo)

Versión en directo de Lara Streccia con Àngel Molina.

Rapsodie Espagnole,  Prélude à la nuit  - M. Ravel

Rapsodie Espagnole,  Malagueña  - M. Ravel

Rapsodie Espagnole,  Habanera  - M. Ravel

Rapsodie Espagnole,  Feria  - M. Ravel

Valse noble et sentimentale 7

Maurice Ravel, Valse noble et sentimentale 7

M. Ravel Sonatine - mov.1
Piano : Tsukasa Tawada
Recording my piano with Rode NT5 microphone.
May 15 2022, Tokyo JAPAN

Ravel Sonatine mov.1 - Tsukasa Tawada

Artist. Pianist at times, full time musician.

In recent years Paul Brantley’s compositions have been performed or commissioned by The Knights (at Tanglewood, BRIC, Dumbarton Oaks and Naumburg Concerts), Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, Horszowski Trio, Flux Quartet, New Esterházy Quartet, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus (on tour), Monadnock Music Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, St. Bartholomew's Summer Festival of Sacred Music, The Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (NYC’s Town Hall), Left Bank Ensemble (Kennedy Center), Ethel (Kimmel Center), Excelsior Trombone Ensemble (NPR’s Performance Today), The Goliard Ensemble on tour, The Manhattan School of Music Symphony, Belladonna (Schubert Club, St. Paul, MN), L’Opera du Village (Pourrieres, France), SONYC (the Kitchen), and as featured composer on these various series: Bargemusic, Ecstatic Music (Merkin Hall), The Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society, HVG, North River, MOSA and Concerts in the Heights. 

His cello concertino, The Royal Revolver, was premiered in December 2017 by cellist Eric Jacobsen (The Knights, Silk Road Project) and members of The University of Michigan Symphony conducted by Kenneth Kiesler. The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra will give 25th anniversary performances of On the Pulse of Morning this May, with Abigail Fischer, soprano, Spring 2021. It was recently announced that Brantley is one of three winners of the Aliénor Composition Competition sponsored by the Historical Keyboard Association of North America to compose a new full-length piece for solo harpsichord. Boyd Meets Girl recently gave the premiere of Filles de l’Elysee which will featured on their forthcoming CD.

Paul is a five-time MacDowell Colony Fellow who has also received fellowships from Banff Centre and Anderson Center. Brantley has been composer-in-residence for Monadnock Music Festival, Gabriel Fauré Conservatoire (Angoulême, France), Goliard Ensemble, Yara Arts Group, The Seal Bay Festival, Children’s Choral Celebration, Sewanee Music Festival, Washington and Lee University, and the Sophia Institute at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He has given composition seminars at Yale School of Music, Hunter College (Anthropology Dept.), and The University of Michigan School of Music.

Multifaceted musician, Brantley has performed or recorded as solo cellist with Trey Anastasio (Phish), Cantata Profana, CITH, Cassatt Quartet, Jeff Coffin Mutet, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Dave Gregory (XTC), Heartbeat Opera, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Lenny White, and SONYC. Brantley has arranged and conducted for David Binney, Ethel, Todd Rundgren, and Christian Scott.

Paul studied at Manhattan School of Music (B.M), Curtis Institute (diploma), Eastman School of Music (M.M.) as well as Fontainebleau, Tanglewood, and The Yellow Barn where he was later artist faculty. His principal teachers include Samuel Adler, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Eicher, Alan Harris, David Loeb, Ned Rorem, and David Wells.

He co-founded the Seal Bay Festival of American Music and was artist faculty at Yellow Barn Music Festival for many years. In addition to positions at Syracuse University and Washington and Lee University, Brantley was a Manhattan School of Music faculty member from 2000 to 2014.

Paul Brantley currently resides in New York City where he free-lances as a composer, cellist, and conductor. His music is published by Bill Holab Music and Oxford University Press. He has recorded solo cello for Sony/Columbia, Rounder, Warner Bros., Polydor, Compass, and others.

As a child and a teenager, I studied the piano intensively. But as soon as I went to university, I didn't have enough spare time to keep up my hobby. 

Three decades later, in December 2019, I decided to blow the metaphorical dust off my instrument. Currently, I study the piano a couple of hours every day. I have set myself a list of favourite works that I would like to be able to interpret within the next three to five years. 

Would you like to follow a non-professional pianist exploring the repertoire purely for musical pleasure on his journey?

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