Download 15 one-minute selections for Wonki Lee and Riko Higuma

15 one-minute selections for Wonki Lee and Riko Higuma
Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a collection of 15 one-minute acoustic works composed specifically for a specific performer or
ensemble. Vox Novus places a call-for-scores and 15 pieces are chosen from the works submitted.
Korean saxophonist Wonki Lee was born in Tokyo and began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. He has
distinguished himself as a remarkable saxophonist with his instrumental prowess and keen artistic grasp. He was the first Korean
selected as a semi-finalist in the Adolphe Sax International Competition.. Wonki made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 2008 and
has performed at the Metropolitan Museum, Merkin Concert Hall, Time Warner Building, and Macys. His concerto recording was
broadcasted on a WQXR. He won 1st prize for MTNA Young Artist NY State Competition, and 3rd prize for the LISMA
International Music Competition. Wonki exclusively uses YAMAHA Custom EX saxophones.
Pianist Riko Higuma has performed and collaborated with legendary artists such as Albert Markov, Neil Rosenshein, Aaron
Rosand, Cho-Liang Lin, Alan Gilbert, Steven Tanenbom, Dora Schwarzberg, and Timothy Eddy. She was a top-prize winner at the
Jacob Flier International Piano Competition and was one of the Young Artists at the Van Cliburn Piano Institute, where she appeared
with the Fort Worth Symphony. Individually and as the pianist of the acclaimed Zodiac Trio, Ms. Higuma has performed around the
globe, including the LaJolla Music Society Summerfest, Summit Music Festival, Russian River Chamber Music, Festival c'est pas
classique, and the Festival Radio-France Montpellier.
La necesidad de crear
Guido Bisocoli
Composer, drummer and programmer from La Plata, Argentina, Guido Bisocoli (born 1982) studied composition 5 years with a private teacher covering
counterpoint, classical harmony and XX century trends. He creates musical works ranging from Electroacoustic through contemporary, to Progressive Rock. He's
always searching for innovation and looking for new sounds on every composition."La necesidad de crear" is a piece for Soprano Sax and Piano, it starts with a
sustained note by the sax, then imitated by the Piano followed by a sudden agitation to return again to the, now, uneasy calm. Chaos again takes control until gradually
all stabilizes again.
1947
Gordon Francis Blaney Jr.
Gordon Francis Blaney Jr. (b. 29 November 1982) is an American writer, performer, educator, and theorist with an extensive background in classical and
jazz. He studied at Berklee College of Music where he received a BM in Composition. He studies composition with Berklee College of Music composition department
professor Dennis LeClaire. "1947" is dedicated to Liana Alexandra, a colleague in composition. She chose the profession of composer, because she loved it. It didn't
matter that her passion became her job, for what's work when it's love? It didn't matter that her job became her career, for what amount of time, space, and resources can
compare to living the dreams one dreams?
He couldn't Boogie Woogie Worth a Damn
Scott Brickman
Scott Brickman (b. Dec. 28, 1963, Oak Park, Illinois) was educated in the Chicago Public school system and holds music degrees from the University of
Wisconsin and Brandeis University. Since 1997 he has taught at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, where he is Professor of Music and Education.He couldn't Boogie
Woogie Worth a Damn (2012) takes its title from a short story of my favorite author, Nelson Algren. The piece is in a simple ternary form. Written using the 12-tone
technique, the initial idea is based on the octatonic scale.
Consonances
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen did the classical-music-studies thing at Oberlin and Manhattan School of Music, and enjoys revisiting that universe from time-to-time. For the most part,
he is keeping busy doing sound, original music, and musical direction for theater shows. For more information, visit him at www.andycomusic.com. The musical
materials for Consonances (for Liana) are derived and developed from a short section of the third movement of Liana Alexandra's Fourth Symphony. Liana wrote many
pieces of chamber music with the title "Consonances"; here is one dedicated to her in return.
crashing into the sun
David Heuser
David Heuser's music has be hailed as "all-American music at its most dynamic and visceral," "thoughtful, beautiful and wonderfully made," and "just the
sort of music classical music needs more of." A native of New Jersey, Heuser now lives in Potsdam, New York. "crashing into the sun" uses the jarring loud clusters
which begin the third movement of her Symphony No. 4 as an ending point, with the piece an exercise in figuring out how to get there.
Shadowthoughts
Ching-chu Hu
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Ching-chu Hu earned his DMA from the University of Michigan. His music has been performed around the world at various
festivals and venues and recorded on Albany Records, ERM Media, and Capstone Records. He is Associate Professor of Music at Denison University at Granville,
Ohio. Shadowthoughts was inspired by Liana Alexana's Cadenza for piano. The soprano saxophone melody is "protected" by the piano, as if its lines are a shadow of
Alexana's work.
Melody Drops
Jose Mora-Jimenez
Jose Mora-Jimenez was born in Costa Rica. He studied the majors Classical Guitar and Music Composition at the University of Costa Rica. He completed his
composition studies at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague under the guidance of Gilius van Bergeijk and Cornelis de Bondt. He is currently living in the
Netherlands. While listening to music by composer Liana Alexandra I came across a short work called "Melody", a melodic and slow piece for cello and piano. Thus, I
decided to make a slow melodic piece as well. For this piece I used the concept of how circular waves are formed after dropping a single drop of water into a liquid
surface. In my piece, the notes of the melody played by the sax are like drops producing "waves" of sound in the piano.
Meditation on Liana Alexandra
Wade Meyers
Wade Meyers is an active pianist and composer currently in the Washington - Baltimore metropolitan area. He holds degrees in piano performance from
Stetson and George Mason Universities, where he studied piano with Michael Rickman and Anna Balakerskaia; improvisation with Harold Blanchard; and, composition
with Manuel de Murga. "Meditation on Liana Alexandra" is written as a pensive, somewhat impressionistic reflection on Liana Alexandra's life, work, and legacy.
Though the piano sets the tone for the tenor saxophone's entrance, it is also the piano's descending bass line that provides the structure of the piece.
Broken Waltz In Memoriam LIANA ALEXANDRA
Daniel Mihai
Daniel Mihai studied with the Maestro and teachers like Serban Nichifor, Stefan Gheorghiu and a lot of great teachers of Romanian School of Music! He has
attended MBA courses in the Faculty of Performing Art, with the objective of improvement and assimilation of all knowledge related to contemporary music. This
composition attempts to reach the soul of Liana Alexandra by choosing one of her feelings in 60 seconds, “My personal advice to the soloist is to be more relaxing.”
Do Not Kill A Mockingbird
Serban Nichifor
Serban Nichifor, composer. Married to Liana Alexandra, composer. This miniature is trying to express the contrast between the purity of Liana's Spirit and
the deadly blows received from her so jealous Romanian colleagues... The melody is a quote from Barcarola by Liana Alexandra Serban, Liana's husband.
A Desire
Mike Perdue
Mike Perdue is an improvising percussionist and composer of experimental chamber music. Originally from rural south Alabama, Perdue is a product of
competitive marching bands, church music, the symphony orchestra, the Internet, and the 20th Century avant-garde. Perdue has been a featured solo improviser at the
Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Festival Internacional de Percuson in Puerto Rico, and with the ensemble Tactus in New York. The thematic
material in this short duet is derived from a quote by the late Romanian composer Liana Alexandra, which reads as follows: "I chose the profession of composer
because I like that and probably was the vocation of my life. Sure, that becomes a job, but becomes a job after that stage overcome by passion and creative, a desire, the
need to create."
Susura
Kala Pierson
Kala Pierson is an American composer and sound artist. Her works have been performed and installed in 22 countries. Her long-term projects include Axis
of Beauty (setting texts by Middle Eastern writers since 2004, in an ongoing response to her government's "Axis of Evil" propaganda) and Illuminated (setting texts
about sex and sexuality from a broad range of cultures). "Susura" is Romanian for murmur. The piece is similar in style to a Romanian doina -- a rhythmically free,
delicately ornamented mourning song played by a single melody instrument (here, soprano saxophone) and sometimes accompanied by one or more drone instruments.
Mystic Dances
Josh Ransom
Josh Ransom is an Australian composer and musician residing in his hometown of Sydney. He currently is studying his Bachelor of Music degree majoring
in Composition under the guidance of composers Matthew Hindson and Damien Ricketson. Josh has composed symphonic works for both symphony and Wind
orchestras which have been performed throughout the state at contest and festival level."Mystic Dances" is a brief encounter of effect when one walks through a dimly
lit, fog bound park in the dead of night. Presenting both a calm and uncertainty of what lies ahead. This brief dance begins with a music box idea portraying a
dreamscape which quickly develops into a raucous festivity of fog bound fret.
Waltz for Alexandra
Corina Alexandra Tirziman
My name is Corina Alexandra Tirziman. I am 20 years old, and I have been studying Contemporary Classical Music Composition for two years at the
"National University of Music from Bucharest", Romania. By participating in numerous workshops and competitions, I can describe myself as a perseverant, tenacious,
and ambitious student. "Waltz for Alexandra" is a piece for soprano saxophone and piano, written in Neo-Consonant style, which is one of the composing directions
approached and promoted by Liana Alexandra. The piece is built from a generating motif, which consists in the succession on the following keys: AEADA. The keys
represent Alexandra's melogram: ALEXANDRA.
Dance
Georgiana Trandafir
Born in 1989 in Bucharest (Romania), GEORGIANA TRANDAFIR studied performing arts (violin, chamber music) and composition at the National
University of Music Bucharest, and legal sciences at the "Nicolae Titulescu" University. "DANCE" for Bb Tenor Saxophone and Piano This piece is written In
Remembrance of the great composer LIANA ALEXANDRA ! The music is directly inspired by the marvellous "CLARINET QUARTET" by LIANA ALEXANDRA.
I dedicate this work to the wonderful Duo WONKI LEE, saxophone and RIKO HIGUMA, piano.