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
Sobre o Contorno for bass clarinet, electronics and video is the result of a collaboration between composer Rodrigo Cardoso and artist Maria Inês Alves. Using vibration as a premise for a joint reflection, a multiplicity of planes emerges that complement each other in different plastic and sound solutions. A reconstruction of the landscape, of contemplation, of listening is proposed, in a sound discourse that gradually thickens, breaking the initial meditative character. The piece appeared in the context of clarinettist Frederic Cardoso's recital "Diálogo a Preto e Branco", which brought together Portuguese works for clarinet inspired by the exploration of a common theme.
Extended-range instrument NOT required. Solo bass clarinet score: 9 pages. Add this item to your cart to online access to the bass clarinet score PDF, video file, the electronic file, the click track file, and the Max XML Patch to display the electronics, click track, and video. If you would rather have the bass clarinet score shipped to you in hard copy, please click here.
About the Composer
Rodrigo Cardoso (1997) is Portuguese composer and music teacher. In 2007 he started studying clarinet with Victor Pereira and composition with Ruben Andrade, at Academia de Música de Castelo de Paiva. He finished his bachelor's in Composition in 2018, at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, studying with composers such as João Madureira, Luís Tinoco and António Pinho Vargas.
In 2015 he received the 1st Prize of the “Concurso de Composição séc. XXI” with “Reflexos”, for solo bass clarinet. In 2018 he received the Golden Prize of the “Oskar Rieding Internacional Competition for Young Musicians” – in Slovenia. In 2019, obtained the 2nd Prize of the SPA / Antena 2 Composition Award. In 2022 he received the 2nd prize in the National Composition Contest of the Portuguese Symphonic Band.
In 2018, he received, from the “Prémio Jovens Musicos” and Antena 2 - RTP, an order to write the mandatory piece of the contest in the clarinet category. Nowadays, he is holding a Master's degree taken at Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Adam Gorb and David Horne.
About the Artist
She was a finalist and honorable mention at the 4th Edition of Sintra's Photography Awards, in 2018, and has taken part in several collective exhibitions: Finalists of Sintra's 15th Edition of Painting and Sculpture prize, in 2020, SGPCM-FBAUL award, in 2019, and Paula Rego Prize in 2017, who took place at Museu das Artes de Sintra, at Secretaria Geral da Presidência do Conselho de Ministros and at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, respectively. Other collective exhibitions include: Painting Graduates FBAUL 18-19/19-20 (Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, 2021); Galerias Abertas das Belas Artes 11ª, 12ª e 13ª Edição (FBAUL 2017, 2018 e 2019); Relógio de Sol; Reflecto (Clube Mercearia Lumiar 2017/ 2018); dba’17 (FBAUL); Laboratório Artístico Residência Educativa MAAT (2017); Erasmus Art Festival Spring Edition (Eka Palace, 2017); 12x12 (Galeria Arte Graça, 2017 and 2018).
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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