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Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1496112 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score...(+)
Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1496112 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score. 3 pages. Motch Music #1072644. Published by Motch Music (A0.1496112). Original work by Masakazu Yamamoto.This is a piece from Piano Piece Collection Children’s Sound. This is an image of Dutch windmills. In the fresh air, the large windmill blades slowly turn. As you watch the blades spin, you start to feel a bit dizzy, thinking how nice the wind must feel!with fingering The piece is included in Children’s Sound.You can purchase the music collection on the website below.(Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)Works For PianoOriginal Composition (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Music For Children (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Christmas Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)-----------------------------------------------------Motch Music All Sheet Music (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)I have a wide selection of sheet music for various instruments such as piano, ensemble, and concert band. From light and enjoyable pieces to concert-level compositions, we cover a wide range of repertoire. I also provide a rich collection of audio preview.In addition to original compositions and unique arrangements, a lot of text on music analysis is well-received. Please take a look below for more information!Motch Music Web Pagehttps://www.masakazuyamamoto.com/english Concerto
Concerto # Piano and Orchestra # ADVANCED # Contemporary # Gyorgy Ligeti
# Concerto # Schott Music -
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Piano and orchestra -
difficult - Digital Download
For piano and orchestra.
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
(1923-2006). This edition:
solo part. Downloadable.
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Piano and orchestra -
difficult - Digital Download
For piano and orchestra.
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
(1923-2006). This edition:
solo part. Downloadable.
Duration 24 minutes. Schott
Music - Digital #Q53630.
Published by Schott Music -
Digital I composed the Piano Concerto in two stages: the first three movements during the years 1985-86, the next two in 1987, the final autograph of the last movement was ready by January, 1988. The concerto is dedicated to the American conductor Mario di Bonaventura. .
The markings of the movements are the following: .
1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso .
2. Lento e deserto .
3. Vivace cantabile .
4. Allegro risoluto .
5. Presto luminoso.
The first performance of the three-movement Concerto was on October 23rd, 1986 in Graz. Mario di Bonaventura conducted while his brother, Anthony di Bonaventura, was the soloist. Two days later the performance was repeated in the Vienna Konzerthaus. After hearing the work twice, I came to the conclusion that the third movement is not an adequate finale. my feeling of form demanded continuation, a supplement. That led to the composing of the next two movements. The premiere of the whole cycle took place on February 29th, 1988, in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the same conductor and the same pianist. .
The orchestra consisted of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, percussion and strings. The flautist also plays the piccoIo, the clarinetist, the alto ocarina. The percussion is made up of diverse instruments, which one musician-virtuoso can play. It is more practical, however, if two or three musicians share the instruments. Besides traditional instruments the percussion part calls also for two simple wind instruments: the swanee whistle and the harmonica. The string instrument parts (two violins, viola, cello and doubles bass) can be performed soloistic since they do not contain divisi. For balance, however, the ensemble playing is recommended, for example 6-8 first violins, 6-8 second, 4-6 violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4 double basses. .
In the Piano Concerto I realized new concepts of harmony and rhythm. .
The first movement is entirely written in bimetry: simultaneously 12/8 and 4/4 (8/8). This relates to the known triplet on a doule relation and in itself is nothing new. Because, however, I articulate 12 triola and 8 duola pulses, an entangled, up till now unheard kind of polymetry is created. The rhythm is additionally complicated because of asymmetric groupings inside two speed layers, which means accents are asymmetrically distributed. These groups, as in the talea technique, have a fixed, continuously repeating rhythmic structures of varying lengths in speed layers of 12/8 and 4/4. This means that the repeating pattern in the 12/8 level and the pattern in the 4/4 level do not coincide and continuously give a kaleidoscope of renewing combinations. .
In our perception we quickly resign from following particular rhythmical successions and that what is going on in time appears for us as something static, resting. This music, if it is played properly, in the right tempo and with the right accents inside particular layers, after a certain time rises, as it were, as a plane after taking off: the rhythmic action, too complex to be able to follow in detail, begins flying. This diffusion of individual structures into a different global structure is one of my basic compositional concepts: from the end of the fifties, from the orchestral works Apparitions and Atmospheres I continuously have been looking for new ways of resolving this basic question. The harmony of the first movement is based on mixtures, hence on the parallel leading of voices. This technique is used here in a rather simple form. later in the fourth movement it will be considerably developed. .
The second movement (the only slow one amongst five movements) also has a talea type of structure, it is however much simpler rhythmically, because it contains only one speed layer. The melody is consisted in the development of a rigorous interval mode in which two minor seconds and one major second alternate therefore nine notes inside an octave. This mode is transposed into different degrees and it also determines the harmony of the movement. however, in closing episode in the piano part there is a combination of diatonics (white keys) and pentatonics (black keys) led in brilliant, sparkling quasimixtures, while the orchestra continues to play in the nine tone mode. .
In this movement I used isolated sounds and extreme registers (piccolo in a very low register, bassoon in a very high register, canons played by the swanee whistle, the alto ocarina and brass with a harmon-mute' damper, cutting sound combinations of the piccolo, clarinet and oboe in an extremely high register, also alternating of a whistle-siren and xylophone). The third movement also has one speed layer and because of this it appears as simpler than the first, but actually the rhythm is very complicated in a different way here. Above the uninterrupted, fast and regular basic pulse, thanks to the asymmetric distribution of accents, different types of hemiolas and inherent melodical patterns appear (the term was coined by Gerhard Kubik in relation to central African music). If this movement is played with the adequate speed and with very clear accentuation, illusory rhythmic-melodical figures appear. These figures are not played directly. they do not appear in the score, but exist only in our perception as a result of co-operation of different voices. .
Already earlier I had experimented with illusory rhythmics, namely in Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), in Continuum for harpsichord (1968), in Monument for two pianos (1976), and especially in the first and sixth piano etude Desordre and Automne a Varsovie (1985). .
The third movement of the Piano Concerto is up to now the clearest example of illusory rhythmics and illusory melody. In intervallic and chordal structure this movement is based on alternation, and also inter-relation of various modal and quasi-equidistant harmony spaces. The tempered twelve-part division of the octave allows for diatonical and other modal interval successions, which are not equidistant, but are based on the alternation of major and minor seconds in different groups. The tempered system also allows for the use of the anhemitonic pentatonic scale (the black keys of the piano). From equidistant scales, therefore interval formations which are based on the division of an octave in equal distances, the twelve-tone tempered system allows only chromatics (only minor seconds) and the six-tone scale (the whole-tone: only major seconds). .
Moreover, the division of the octave into four parts only minor thirds) and three parts (three major thirds) is possible. In several music cultures different equidistant divisions of an octave are accepted, for example, in the Javanese slendro into five parts, in Melanesia into seven parts, popular also in southeastern Asia, and apart from this, in southern Africa. This does not mean an exact equidistance: there is a certain tolerance for the inaccurateness of the interval tuning. .
These exotic for us, Europeans, harmony and melody have attracted me for several years. However I did not want to re-tune the piano (microtone deviations appear in the concerto only in a few places in the horn and trombone parts led in natural tones). After the period of experimenting, I got to pseudo- or quasiequidistant intervals, which is neither whole-tone nor chromatic: in the twelve-tone system, two whole-tone scales are possible, shifted a minor second apart from each other. Therefore, I connect these two scales (or sound resources), and for example, places occur where the melodies and figurations in the piano part are created from both whole tone scales. in one band one six-tone sound resource is utilized, and in the other hand, the complementary. In this way whole-tonality and chromaticism mutually reduce themselves: a type of deformed equidistancism is formed, strangely brilliant and at the same time slanting. illusory harmony, indeed being created inside the tempered twelve-tone system, but in sound quality not belonging to it anymore. .
The appearance of such slantedequidistant harmony fields alternating with modal fields and based on chords built on fifths (mainly in the piano part), complemented with mixtures built on fifths in the orchestra, gives this movement an individual, soft-metallic colour (a metallic sound resulting from harmonics). .
The fourth movement was meant to be the central movement of the Concerto. Its melodc-rhythmic elements (embryos or fragments of motives) in themselves are simple. The movement also begins simply, with a succession of overlapping of these elements in the mixture type structures. Also here a kaleidoscope is created, due to a limited number of these elements - of these pebbles in the kaleidoscope - which continuously return in augmentations and diminutions. .
Step by step, however, so that in the beginning we cannot hear it, a compiled rhythmic organization of the talea type gradually comes into daylight, based on the simultaneity of two mutually shifted to each other speed layers (also triplet and duoles, however, with different asymmetric structures than in the first movement). While longer rests are gradually filled in with motive fragments, we slowly come to the conclusion that we have found ourselves inside a rhythmic-melodical whirl: without change in tempo, only through increasing the density of the musical events, a rotation is created in the stream of successive and compiled, augmented and diminished motive fragments, and increasing the density suggests acceleration. .
Thanks to the periodical structure of the composition, always new but however of the same (all the motivic cells are similar to earlier ones but none of them are exactly repeated. the general structure is therefore self-similar), an impression is created of a gigantic, indissoluble network. Also, rhythmic structures at first hidden gradually begin to emerge, two independent speed layers with their various internal accentuations. .
This great, self-similar whirl in a very indirect way relates to musical associations, which came to my mind while watching the graphic projection of the mathematical sets of Julia and of Mandelbrot made with the help of a computer. I saw these wonderful pictures of fractal creations, made by scientists from Brema, Peitgen and Richter, for the first time in 1984. From that time they have played a great role in my musical concepts. This does not mean, however, that composing the fourth movement I used mathematical methods or iterative calculus. indeed, I did use constructions which, however, are not based on mathematical thinking, but are rather craftman's constructions (in this respect, my attitude towards mathematics is similar to that of the graphic artist Maurits Escher). .I am concerned rather with intuitional, poetic, synesthetic correspondence, not on the scientific, but on the poetic level of thinking. .
The fifth, very short Presto movement is harmonically very simple, but all the more complicated in its rhythmic structure: it is based on the further development of ''inherent patterns of the third movement. The quasi-equidistance system dominates harmonically and melodically in this movement, as in the third, alternating with harmonic fields, which are based on the division of the chromatic whole into diatonics and anhemitonic pentatonics. Polyrhythms and harmonic mixtures reach their greatest density, and at the same time this movement is strikingly light, enlightened with very bright colours: at first it seems chaotic, but after listening to it for a few times it is easy to grasp its content: many autonomous but self-similar figures which crossing themselves. .
I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto: I demonstrate my independence from criteria of the traditional avantgarde, as well as the fashionable postmodernism. Musical illusions which I consider to be also so important are not a goal in itself for me, but a foundation for my aesthetical attitude. I prefer musical forms which have a more object-like than processual character. Music as frozen time, as an object in imaginary space evoked by music in our imagination, as a creation which really develops in time, but in imagination it exists simultaneously in all its moments. The spell of time, the enduring its passing by, closing it in a moment of the present is my main intention as a composer. .
(Gyorgy Ligeti) Prairie [Children's Sound / Piano solo]
Prairie [Children's Sound / Piano solo] # Piano solo # EASY # Masakazu YAMAMOTO # Prairie [Children's Sound / Pi # Motch Music # SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1495803 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score...(+)
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1495803 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score. 2 pages. Motch Music #1072332. Published by Motch Music (A0.1495803). Original work by Masakazu Yamamoto.This is a piece from Piano Piece Collection Children’s Sound. It's so refreshing to be in a wide, open field. Under the blue sky, you feel like running as fast as the wind!with fingering The piece is included in Children’s Sound.You can purchase the music collection on the website below.(Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)Works For PianoOriginal Composition (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Music For Children (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Christmas Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)-----------------------------------------------------Motch Music All Sheet Music (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)I have a wide selection of sheet music for various instruments such as piano, ensemble, and concert band. From light and enjoyable pieces to concert-level compositions, we cover a wide range of repertoire. I also provide a rich collection of audio preview.In addition to original compositions and unique arrangements, a lot of text on music analysis is well-received. Please take a look below for more information!Motch Music Web Pagehttps://www.masakazuyamamoto.com/english Sketch for children Vol.2 (10 pieces) [Piano solo]
Sketch for children Vol.2 (10 pieces) [Piano solo] # Piano solo # EASY # Masakazu YAMAMOTO # Sketch for children Vol.2 # Motch Music # SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087844 By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,H...(+)
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087844 By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score. 28 pages. Motch Music #692072. Published by Motch Music (A0.1087844). Original work by Masakazu Yamamoto.Sketch for children Vol.2The image of each world is drawn like a sketch. It's a song for children, but I think it can be enjoyed by adults as well. The level of this songbook varies from intermediate Beyer to the end of the Sonatine album, but the order of the songs is not in line with the level. Please challenge from your favorite song! All song is with fingering.The following 10 songs are included in the collection. 1 Prelude for shine of morning dew [2' 40]  2 The wind is muttering [2' 45]  3 Let's play at the park [1' 30]  4 Precious memory [2' 20]  5 At Dusk [2' 45] 6 Waltz of KAZAGURUMA [1' 05]  7 Going to the circus [1' 00]  8 Cycling [1' 30]  9 Secret chat of fallen leaves[2' 25] 10 Ding Dong Town [4' 25] Works for Children (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct) ----------------------------------------------------- Motch Music All Sheet Music (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)I have a wide selection of sheet music for various instruments such as piano, ensemble, and concert band. From light and enjoyable pieces to concert-level compositions, we cover a wide range of repertoire. I also provide a rich collection of audio preview.In addition to original compositions and unique arrangements, a lot of text on music analysis is well-received. Please take a look below for more information!Motch Music Web Pagehttps://www.masakazuyamamoto.com/english Waltz of KAZAGURUMA [Sketch for children / Piano solo]
Waltz of KAZAGURUMA [Sketch for children / Piano solo] # Piano solo # EASY # Masakazu YAMAMOTO # Waltz of KAZAGURUMA [Sketch fo # Motch Music # SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1092005 By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,H...(+)
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1092005 By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. By Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score. 2 pages. Motch Music #696137. Published by Motch Music (A0.1092005). Original work by Masakazu Yamamoto.This is a piece from Sketch for children. When you hit the wind, the feathers spin around and it's a fun toy KAZAGURUMA. Play by running with it or blowing a breath on it. [1' 05] with fingering The piece is included in Sketch for children Vol.2.You can purchase the music collection on the website below.(Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct) Works For Piano Original Composition (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Music For Children (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct) ​Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)→Christmas Arrangement (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct) ----------------------------------------------------- Motch Music All Sheet Music (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)I have a wide selection of sheet music for various instruments such as piano, ensemble, and concert band. From light and enjoyable pieces to concert-level compositions, we cover a wide range of repertoire. I also provide a rich collection of audio preview.In addition to original compositions and unique arrangements, a lot of text on music analysis is well-received. Please take a look below for more information!Motch Music Web Pagehttps://www.masakazuyamamoto.com/english  Children's Sound (16 pieces) [Piano solo]
Children's Sound (16 pieces) [Piano solo] # Piano solo # EASY # Masakazu YAMAMOTO # Children's Sound # Motch Music # SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1494125 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score...(+)
Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1494125 Composed by Masakazu YAMAMOTO. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Holiday. Score. 31 pages. Motch Music #1070733. Published by Motch Music (A0.1494125). Original work by Masakazu Yamamoto.Piano Piece CollectionChildren's SoundThis collection features 16 pieces that depict various worlds inspired by everyday things and free imagination. When performing these pieces, take time to deepen your understanding of each one and think about what kind of sound you want to hear. Fingerings are provided for each piece, but it can also be enjoyable to choose fingerings that suit your own hands.The first 10 pieces are at a beginner level, while pieces 11 through 16 are intermediate or more. Both adults and children can enjoy playing these pieces as if returning to childhood. Now, let's make your own world resonate!All song is with fingering.The following 16 songs are included in the collection.01 / Clouds are flowing02 / Ant Taking a Detour03 / Prairie04 / Tag05 / After a Quarrel06 / Sports Day07 / Thinking08 / Snow Fairy09 / Dream Waltz10 / Twilight Song11 / Flying Disc12 / Shooting Stars13 / Hot cassole14 / A Dance of Whimsical Clown15 / In the slumber16 / A Scene with WindmillYouTube Playlist [Children's Sound]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yI0MF3Ylho&list=PL47A_fdVsqR2rT0c41-lKilnlLb7QJKhMWorks for Children (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)-----------------------------------------------------Motch Music All Sheet Music (Sheet Music Plus / Sheet Music Direct)I have a wide selection of sheet music for various instruments such as piano, ensemble, and concert band. From light and enjoyable pieces to concert-level compositions, we cover a wide range of repertoire. I also provide a rich collection of audio preview.In addition to original compositions and unique arrangements, a lot of text on music analysis is well-received. Please take a look below for more information!Motch Music Web Pagehttps://www.masakazuyamamoto.com/english Con-Tse-To
Con-Tse-To # Alto Saxophone and Piano # INTERMEDIATE # Jazz # Gregory Fritze # Con-Tse-To # Musica Nova USA # SheetMusicPlus
Composed by Gregory Fritze.
21st Century, Contemporary
Classical, Post-Modern, Jazz,
Bebop. Piano Reduction, Solo
Part. 44 pages. Published by
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Composed by Gregory Fritze.
21st Century, Contemporary
Classical, Post-Modern, Jazz,
Bebop. Piano Reduction, Solo
Part. 44 pages. Published by
Musica Nova USA Con-Tse-To – a Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band was composed in 2013 at the request of Kenneth Tse. It is in three movements – 1. Pasodoble Melanie, 2. Lamento and 3. Danza Jubiloso. First performance was July 14, 2013 for the Hong Kong International Saxophone Symposium at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Hong Kong Chamber Wind Philharmonic; Victor Tam, Conductor; Kenneth Tse, Saxophone Soloist.
The first movement – Pasodoble Melanie, is in the traditional form of the march in Spain knownas the Pasodoble. It has a beginning theme in traditional march style using Spanish flavor harmoniesand melodies. As the Spanish pasodoble is in the same form as American marches, the second theme isthe “Trio” section. In the Spanish pasodoble, it is customary to have the first presentation of this secondtheme played extremely softly in the clarinets. It is also common during the repeat of the Trio to have a soloist such as a piccolo displaying an obligato of great virtuosic melodies in counterpoint to the clarinets. I felt this would be a very appropriate place for an alto saxophone obligato. In this pasodoble the thirdpresentation of the Trio is shortened to allow for the first cadenza. Since I met Kenneth Tse for the first time in Buñol (Valencia), Spain, I thought it would be very appropriate to use this traditional form for the firstmovement for his concerto. It is a Spanish custom for a composer to give a pasodoble composition as a gift such as to a musician or politician and the title of the piece often references the name of recipient’s wife. Kenneth Tse’s wife’s name is Melanie so this movement is dedicated to her.
The second movement – Lamento was adapted from a melody of mine “El año del Trumpetista” originally composed in 2010. I thought the beautiful sound of Dr. Tse’s saxophone playing would be very complimentary for this melody.
The third movement – Danza Jubiloso is in allegro tempo with the first theme based on leaps of afourth and an octave in duple meter. The second theme is mostly in 7/8 meter. There is also a bit of a jazz element of harmonies and the added instruments of a drum set and jazz double bass in pizzicato.
Con-Tse-To was awarded Finalist category in the Band Composition Competition of the American Prize in 2017. One of only two Concertos with Band awarded that year. The full band instrumentation is available on Musica Nova USA.
Gregory Fritze is a prize-winning composer and Fulbright Scholar, as well as an active performer. He recently retired from Berklee College of Music where he was Professor and Chair of Composition, serving on the faculty from 1979 to 2016. He has written over ninety compositions for orchestra, band, chamberensembles and soloists. He has won over fifty composition awards both nationally and internationally. His compositions include works published by several publishers in the United States, South America and Europe that have been performed extensively throughout the world.
He has been a frequent traveler to Spain since 1993 and has promoted compositions by Spanish composers around the world. He is the only composer who has been commissioned six times by Spanishbands for Certamen competitions, with each band winning first prize.
His compositions are recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and has Composition degrees from the Boston Conservatory and Indiana University. He now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.
The piano transcription was done by Derek Remeš. The Year of the Trumpeter (piano reduction)
The Year of the Trumpeter (piano reduction) # Trumpet, Piano # EASY # Contemporary # Gregory Fritze # The Year of the Trumpeter # Musica
Nova USA # SheetMusicPlus
Composed by Gregory Fritze.
21st Century, Contemporary
Classical, Neo-Classical,
Sacred, Funeral. Piano
Reduction, Solo Part. 14
pages. Published by M...(+)
Composed by Gregory Fritze.
21st Century, Contemporary
Classical, Neo-Classical,
Sacred, Funeral. Piano
Reduction, Solo Part. 14
pages. Published by Musica
Nova USA Year of the Trumpeter (El Año del Trompetista) is a piece for solo trumpet and band. Duration is 5 minutes, Grade for band and soloist is Grade 3. This is the piano reduction. It was composed in 2010 as an homage to four friends of mine who played trumpet and passed away in 2009.
Fred Mills played trumpet with the Canadian Brass for 24 years. I met him when I performed with Harvey Phillips and his Tuba Consort when we joined the Canadian Brass in a Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall. I arranged a piccolo descant trumpet part for Fred that he played with the tuba group. We also worked together in Cordoba Argentina in 2006.
Linares Rodriguez was a member of the La Armonica Band of Buñol. After he retired from playing, hebecame the manager for the society’s buildings. When I first lived in Buñol in 1996 we became goodfriends and sometimes took walking excursions together.
Bill Maloof was my first boss as he was Chair of Composition during my first ten years as a facultymember at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Nedo Pandolfi was considered a great musical force in Rhode Island. His last concert with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983 was my first performance with the orchestra. At that time heplayed French Horn but his original instrument was trumpet.
Year of the Trumpeter was premiered March 8, 2014 by Antonio Cambres Rodriguez and the CIM La Armonica, David Fiuza, Conductor in Buñol (Valencia), Spain. The version for trumpet and piano was premiered in Magallon, Spain, July 2017 by Antonio Cambres with the composer playing piano. The band version was recorded by Cambres and the CIM La Armonica, David Fiuza, Conductor. It is on the CD Music for Wind Orchestraon La Armonica Records.
Gregory Fritze is a prize-winning composer and Fulbright Scholar, as well as an active performer and conductor. He recently retired from Berklee College of Music where he was Professor and Chair of Composition and tuba instructor, serving on the faculty from 1979 to 2016. He has written over ninety compositions for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles and soloists. He has won over sixty composition awards both nationally and internationally, including First Prize in the 1st WASBE (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) International Composition Contest 2017, First Prize Winner of the Reneé Fisher Composition Prize, First Prize Winner in the Concurso Bienal de Composición de Musica para Banda, Ciudad de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), Menzione d’Onore (highest award given) of the Mario Bernardo Angelo-Comneno International Music Competition by the Accademia Angelica Costantiniana Arti E Scienze (Italy), First Prize in the 1991 TUBA International Etude Composition Competition and several others. His compositions include works published by several publishers in the United States, South America and Europe that have been performed extensively throughout the world.
Gregory Fritze is also a very active tubist. He was Principal Tubist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic for thirty-three years as well as performing with many other ensembles in New England and Florida.
He has been a frequent traveler to Spain since 1993 and has promoted compositions by Spanish composers around the world. He is the only composer who has been commissioned six times by Spanishbands for Certamen competitions, with each band winning first prize.
He has thirty-four compositions commercially recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and has Composition degrees from the Boston Conservatory and Indiana University. He now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.