Informationen zu "Simon Garcia Northern Lights Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM868
EAN: 9790570458684
ISMN: M-57045-868-4
Beschreibung
Simon Garcia writes: 'Finland is a beautiful country where people are still
closely related to nature. One of the atmospheric phenomena that fascinates
me are the Northern Lights. People can spend hours looking at the sky as if
bewitched, this magical effect is what I try to describe in this small
pizzicato work. Northern Lights is a reworking of Polar Lights, composed
for Teppo-Fest 2016 and originally for unaccompanied double bass, also for
double bass duet, and has been extended and developed retaining a simple and
evocative serenity which captures the magic and mystery of the northern
lights in all their beauty and majesty.' Bassist and composer Simon Garcia
was born in Mugardos (Spain) in 1977 and graduated in double bass from the
Conservatorio Superior of Salamanca. He has worked as a double bassist in the
Royal Orchestra of Galicia, having also performed in many orchestras
throughout Spain, and is the bassist in the Symphony Wind Orchestra of A.
Coruna. He has collaborated with many musicians and ensembles, particularly
in the field of contemporary music, and has recorded and performed on many
commercial recordings and for television and radio broadcasts. Simon Garcia
has composed more than twenty works for double bass, ranging from two to six
players, alongside transcriptions of these pieces for various chamber
ensembles. His music has been performed in Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay,
Denmark, Spain, Japan, Italy, Austria, Germany, Canada, USA and UK by The
Bass Gang, Bass Instinct and Il Quint-etto amongst others, and some of his
music was used as teaching material in the 2011 ISB Year of Collaborative
Music. Simon Garcia's music is livly, jazzy and rhythmic with great forward
momentum and drive. Accessible for players and audiences alike, he writes
colourful music of distinction and energy, employing the entire range of the
double bass.
