This site is home to Alea Publishing & Recording, specializing in music for the bass clarinet.
We offer a growing catalog of creative, artistic transcriptions and new works for bass clarinet solo & ensemble.
About the Music
We are delighted to welcome Cypriot composer Artemis Aifotiti to our catalog with the publication of her Bagatelles for solo bass clarinet (2024). Bagatelles was written in 2024 after a Consortium Commission organized by Culturetones. It was premiered by Clarinetist George Georgiou at ARTE Music Academy on June 14th 2024. The piece consists of two contrasting movements, each one presenting the instrument’s unique abilities. The first movement is calm and lyrical demonstrating the ‘vocal’ aspect of the instrument while the second movement is playful presenting the virtuosity of the instrument.
Consortium Members: George Georgiou, Julia Heinen, Lara Diaz, Sarah Watts, Angelos Angelides, Iro Michail.
Solo score: 6 pages; published loose-leaf to facilitate page turns. Extended-range instrument NOT required.
Listen to the premiere recording by George Georgiou:
Hard Copy Edition
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About the Composer
Artemis Aifotiti was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she began her musical training. She is a graduate of City University London (BMus and MA in Instrumental and Vocal Composition) where she studied piano with Norman Beedie at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and composition with Professor Rhian Samuel. She worked with several organisations, ensembles and performers and her pieces have been performed by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Avaton Contemporary Music Festival, Commandaria Orchestra, Center of Cypriot Composers, Chronos Contemporary Music Ensemble in several countries such as Cyprus, Malta, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Belgium, UK and USA.
Kim Davenport
President
Duo Alea, the father-daughter duo of Michael and Kimberly Davenport, began performing music for bass clarinet and piano in 1996. As performers searching for new repertoire and teachers working with students eager to develop as performers, it quickly became clear that there was a need for more repertoire featuring the bass clarinet. Filling this need became the mission of Alea Publishing & Recording.
Since our first publication in 1997, the Alea catalog has now grown to include over 300 titles. We pride ourselves on the accuracy and quality of our sheet music, as well as our ability to ship directly to customers around the world.
We are proud of the diversity of our catalog in terms of the inclusion of works by composers and arrangers from around the world. We are interested in continuing to expand this diversity, representing musical ideas from around the world.
Following Michael's passing in 2019, Kim has taken over solo management of Alea Publishing. In 2020, Alea established the Dolphy Prize, an annual composition award for new works for bass clarinet by black composers.
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