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 Work
Notes courtesy of the composer:
Espiral (in english Spiral) for clarinet quartet, is based, as its name implies, on the sensation that it is trapped in an endless vortex. Where you do not see concrete light and do not feel that you can see an end. Where you do not know if time passes you or if you are going through it. In this way, the beginning and the end is the edge of the entrance that takes you back to the core of the spiral.
Quartet scoring: E-flat clarinet, 2 B-flat clarinets, bass clarinet (extended-range instrument NOT required). Score: 10 pages, spiral bind; Parts: 3 pages each, booklet.
About the Composer
Christian Guerra was born in 1994 on the Island of Margarita, Nueva Esparta State, Venezuela. He began his studies as a percussionist in different schools of music and orchestras of the country belonging to the System of Orchestras and Choirs of Children and Youth of Venezuela and receives classes of percussionist teachers belonging to the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolivar de Venezuela. At the moment he receives classes in the Latin American academy of percussion and has been able to participate in different international festivals in his country as a performer of his compositions for percussion.
He is currently studying composition at the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) in Caracas. His composition works focus mainly on percussion, but he has also written works for orchestra, choir, small ensembles of chamber music, clarinet quartet, among others.
Listen to a portion of a live recording by students at the Conservatory of Music Simón Bolivar:
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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