

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
Jeff Anderle's thoughtful and artistic edition of the Bach Cello Suites in the original written key. This volume provides bass clarinetists with a wonderful new alternative to our original transposed edition of the Suites, our first publication from back in 1997!
Quoting from Jeff's notes about this edition:
The Bach cello suites are among the most popular pieces to play on bass clarinet: they are challenging but not excessively so, there is no accompaniment needed, and they are among more well-known unaccompanied pieces in the classical music canon. As bass clarinetists, we need to confront both the challenges of translating cello techniques onto the bass clarinet, as well as the challenges every cellist faces when engaging with these pieces. My goal with this edition is twofold: to optimize them for ease of playing on the bass clarinet, and to create opportunities for performers to utilize curiosity and critical thinking as they prepare their interpretation.
Solo score: 64 pages.
PDF Edition
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About the Arranger
A pioneer in the world of clarinet and bass clarinet, Jeff Anderle is exploding the boundaries of classical music through innovative performances, recordings, commissions, and mentorship. Anderle has augmented the sonic and musical possibilities of the clarinet as a soloist with orchestras and music festivals across the country and as a member of several cutting-edge ensembles including Sqwonk and Splinter Reeds. In 2024, Anderle was appointed as the Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Arizona State University after sixteen years of teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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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