Bent Frequency
 from USA Bent Frequency is a professional contemporary chamber music ensemble based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 2003, the group brings the avant-garde music tradition to life in Atlanta through adventurous programming, the promotion of New Music, and a creative synthesis of music and media. Saxophonist Jan Berry Baker is a native of Alberta, Canada. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout North America, France, Ukraine, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic. As an orchestral saxophonist, she regularly performs with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic and the Atlanta Opera. Dr Baker is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Georgia State University. She holds a Doctor of Music degree in saxophone performance from Northwestern University and is an endorsed Selmer performing artist. Violist, Tania Maxwell Clements studied with James Durrant at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and with Alberto Lysy and Johannes Eskar at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland. She has held positions with the Camerata Lysy, Switzerland, the Seville Symphony Orchestra, Spain and was the assistant principal violist with the BBC Philharmonic in England. Since 1998 she has taught at Georgia State University where she currently holds the position of Lecturer in Viola. |
Filigree and Shadow - Robert Scott ThompsonFiligree and Shadow is inspired by the intricate metalwork of twisted threads and also the notion of "shadowed narrativity" - the context shared by the two instrumentalists as they explore often similar materials but also diverge from each other to provide commentary and elaborations. Various approaches to the duo context are explored in the work ranging from direct opposition to unification. Composed at the invitation of Jan Berry Baker and Tania Maxwell Clements, the form of the composition is a kind of suite divided into two large sections. The first of these is comprised of a series of gestural fields that emphasizes formal separateness and compartmentalization while the second is more continuous in sound and provides a context for virtuosic interplay between the instruments.
Coil, Recoil - Carolyn O'BrienCoil, Recoil, for alto saxophone and viola, was composed with a spiraling formal structure. The viola and saxophone often act as one combined voice employing wild gestures that either trigger an equally violent reaction, recoil away from that trigger, or slowly relax into more lyrical phrases. If the piece were sliced into its segments, each one would nest snugly inside the last, with the largest portion heard first followed by subsequent shorter sections that gradually coil into a tightly packed bundle. |
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