Informationen zu "Bernard Salles A Little Suite for Frantisek Posta Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM974
EAN: 9790570459742
ISMN: M-57045-974-2
Beschreibung
Bernard Salles writes: 'My single idea was to compose these little pieces
lasting around one minute each, like David Heyes wanted. When I compose I
have no fixed idea I simply follow my pencil! The style came little by little
in this case, quite close to the Bach Cello suites, and I composed the entire
suite in one day - like the grand master Johann Sebastian Bach! To interpret
I think it's very open and, like the Cello suites, you can choose Baroque, or
Romantic or modern style, with or without vibrato. Also you can change the
tempo (slower or fast), bowings or dynamics.' A Little Suite for Frantisek
Posta was premiered on Sunday 3 September 2017 at Village Hall, Templecombe
(Somerset, UK) by David Heyes. American premiere - Sunday 17 September 2017
at Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (USA) by
Chris Clark. Irish Premiere - 24 February 2018 at Triskel Arts Centre (Cork,
Eire) by David Whitla. Bernard Salles was born in 1954 and began his musical
education in his home town of Perpignan (France) where he studied double
bass, organ, composition and orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire. In
1973 he want to the Conservatoire of Versailles and in 1976, at the age of
22, he was awarded a double bass teaching diploma. Since then he has taught
at the Conservatoire of Pau (South-west France) and played with many major
French orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris and the National Orchestra
of France, under the direction of conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre
Boulez, Zubin Metha and Lorin Maazel. In 1983 he began a parallel career as
a conductor and was Music Director of the Orchestra of Pau from 1996-2001. He
has directed the Orchestra of Pamplona (Spain) and is currently Music
Director of the OSSO (Orchestre Symphonique du Sud-Ouest). As a composer and
member of SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Editors of Music), he has
written over 30 works including two symphonies, a cantata, a psalm for bass
and orchestra, a concerto for double bass and small orchestra, Rhapsody for
viola and orchestra, Triptych for orchestra, Prelude for cello and orchestra,
a symphonic poem for soprano, cello and orchestra, as well as works for
chamber groups, and for choir and organ. His pedagogic works are published by
G.Billaudot in Paris and his works for double bass are published by Recital
Music (England). In 2010 he began a series of short pieces for unaccompanied
double bass - Portraits for Friends - dedicated to his double bass playing
friends.
