Informationen zu "Eric Funk Aria Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM979
EAN: 9790570459797
ISMN: M-57045-979-7
Beschreibung
Aria was composed in 2017, having originally been commissioned for Teppo-Fest
a year earlier, but delayed because of illness. Based on a poem by Finnish
poet Jouni Inkala, the musical line follows the English translation, word for
word, in a free flowing and elegant soliloquy. Atmospheric and evocative,
there are elements of dramatic tension and passion, contrasting phrases of a
more lyrical and cantabile nature. The occasional pizzicato notes ground the
piece, varying the colour and texture, and it ends slowly and quietly with a
short coda-like phrase with an eerily atmospheric sul ponticello effect. Aria
is marked ?contemplative, inward turned? with music of a spare and ethereal
nature. Aria was recorded by David Heyes (double bass) on 25 July 2017 at
Village Studios, Templecombe (Somerset) for Prima Facie Records. A former
student of Tomas Svoboda, Sandor Veress, and Krzysztof Penderecki in the
1970s, Eric Funk's considerable compositional output includes nine
symphonies, four operas, six ballet scores, three large works for chorus and
orchestra, seventeen concertos, several orchestral tone poems, and numerous
works for chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and vocal works. Prominent
premiers of his works include 'From the Dreams of Montana Children' [Carnegie
Hall, NY], his one-act solo opera-ballet for contralto and ballet troupe,
Akhmatova, based on key texts from the Russian poet's life, his Concerto for
the Violin Alone, triple string quartet, and the song cycles Gongora (for
baritone and chamber orchestra, on texts by the Spanish baroque poet) and
Sequentia (contralto and 9-person chamber ensemble, on texts by Paul Celan).
Eric Funk was featured on the Charles Osgood CBS Sunday Morning show in
October of 1998, which followed on the heels of a front page story in the New
York Times 'Arts & Leisure' section (April 14, 1998). Mr. Funk was featured
on the nationally syndicated NPR radio shows Performance Today [LeeAnn
Hanson], Morning Edition, Theme & Variations [Will Everett], The Composer
Next Door, and Of the West [Phil Aaberg]. From 1994-2002 he was conductor of
the Helena Symphony Orchestra in Helena, Montana and from 1994-1999 he was
also the conductor of the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra in Bozeman, Montana.
Past performance venues for his works include Dvorak Hall [Prague],
Lutoslawki Radio Hall [Warsaw], Symphony Hall [Riga], Carnegie Hall [NY], the
Renda Theater, and the Gaudeamus International Interpreters of Contemporary
Music Festival (Rotterdam). His 123 major works have earned him numerous
awards and commissions, including 13 ASCAP Standard Awards, the 2001
Governor's Award for the Arts (Montana), and three Arts Commission
Fellowships. He currently teaches for the School of Music/Montana State
University where he has won numerous teaching awards, serves as Host and
Artistic Director for 11th & Grant with Eric Funk, a four-time Emmy Award
winning show in its 9th season broadcast on Montana PBS & featuring Montana
musicians in all genres, and is Music/Artistic Director for the Big Sky
Classical Music Festival, now in its third season.
