

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 thank Koby Slavin for sharing the following program note for his arrangement of Nadia Boulanger's Three Pieces for bass clarinet and piano. Please note that our catalog also includes another arrangement of this same piece.
Nadia Boulanger is one of the most influential pedagogues in the contemporary Western canon. Equal parts delicate and brusque, her Three Pieces for cello and piano shine as an example of her mastery of the compositional artform. This arrangement is one of very few works for the advanced bass clarinetist that can be performed on a short range (low Eb) bass clarinet.
Piano score: 11 pages, spiral bound; bass clarinet part: 4 pages, booklet. Extended-range instrument NOT required.
Listen to Slavin's premiere performance of his arrangement:
Hard Copy Edition
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About the Arranger
New York native Lucas Koby Slavin is a clarinetist and saxophonist pushing the boundaries of the bass clarinet. Before beginning his graduate studies at Arizona State University, Koby served as bass and contrabass clarinetist with the venerable Eastman Wind Ensemble, and was a founding member of the award-winning Sequoia Reed Quintet. With Sequoia, Koby has been recognized by national institutions of chamber music, such as the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association, MTNA Chamber Music Competition, and the American Prize in Chamber Music. Koby has regularly collaborated with OSSIA New Music Ensemble, Empire Film and Media Ensemble, and the Driftwood Quintet. Guest performances include The Phoenix Symphony, Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra, ISO at Third Street (formerly InterSchool Orchestras of New York), Westchester Symphonic Winds, and indie folk band Einstein’s Dreams. Koby earned his master's degree from Arizona State University, his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and his PC from the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.
Kim Davenport
President
Alea Publishing & Recording was founded in 1997 by Michael and Kim Davenport, the father-daughter bass clarinet/piano duo. 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.
The Alea Publishing catalog has now grown to include over 400 titles. We pride ourselves on the accuracy and quality of our sheet music, as well as our ability to reach customers around the world with both hard copy scores and PDF downloads.
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 award for Black musicians who are engaged in composing and performing works featuring the bass clarinet.
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