Informationen zu "David Heyes The Great Wall of China Violin Quartet / Ensemble"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM991
EAN: 9790570459919
ISMN: M-57045-991-9
Beschreibung
The Great Wall of China is originally for double bass quartet was composed on
21/22 July 2016 and premiered by a massed bass orchestra at the Purcell
School (Bushey, Herts) on Sunday 24 July 2016. In one movement and lasting
around three minutes, it is aimed at the intermediate ensemble employing a
number of effective and evocative playing techniques including arco,
pizzicato, harmonics, sul ponticello, percussion, col legno and Bartok pizz.
It was designed to introduce younger musicians to a number of playing
effects, alongside accessible musical and technical skills, offering solo and
ensemble opportunities for each player. The music begins with a slow and
stately unison theme, which is repeated pizzicato, before the main theme is
introduced against a lively and driving percussive accompaniment. The music
has a drive and momentum which is eventually interrupted by a series of
dramatic chords to emphasise the amazing history and grandeur of the Great
Wall, with a recapitulation of the opening theme ending with a strong,
dramatic and sudden unison chord playing Bartok pizz. David Heyes studied
double bass with Laurence Gray and Bronwen Naish and later at the Royal
College of Music in London. He completed his post-graduate studies in Prague
with Frantisek Posta (Principal Double Bass, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra).
He has given recitals and masterclasses in 13 countries over the past few
years and has been a juror at a number of international competitions, twice
as chairman. David has been Specialist Double Bass Tutor at Wells Cathedral
School for 19 years and received a prestigious award from the David Walter
Charitable Trust of New York for his pioneering activities as a soloist,
teacher, publisher and commissioner of new music for double bass. He works
with composers throughout the world and is particularly interested to expand
the double bass repertoire, by commissioning new works and by rediscovering
forgotten ones. Over the past 30 years he has commissioned more than 500
works, from beginner to virtuoso, and from one to twenty basses. David has
transcribed more than 200 works for double bass, many published by Recital
Music, and in recent years has also composed a number of original works for
double bass which have been performed in Britain, America, Spain, Germany,
Turkey, Mexico and Czech Republic. David is self-taught as a composer and his
music has been described as lyrical and accessible, but certainly of the
21st-century. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ituqPaQNo
