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
Anton Stamitz (1750-c.1809) was a German composer and violinist. He was the son of Johann and brother of Carl Stamitz, both notable musicians. His father was his initial violin teacher and undoubtedly influenced his compositions: a number of symphonies as well as smaller works for strings and woodwind. This duet is from book one, of six duets for violin and cello, which have been arranged for the bass clarinet and oboe.
Catherine Underhill is the oboist of Hacha Duo, who are a woodwind duo, dedicated to expanding the repertoire for clarinets and oboes. This duet has been especially arranged Hacha duo’s combination of bass clarinet and oboe. We are delighted to share it with other woodwind duos who are looking for some new repertoire.
Duo Score: 12 pages. Extended-range instrument NOT required for bass clarinet part.
Hard Copy Edition
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About the Arranger
Catherine Underhill is a British oboist and cor anglais player. She graduated with a first class BA Honours in Music from University of Southampton and completed her Masters in Oboe Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she was a Helen Roll Trust and Trinity Laban scholar. She studied with Ruth Bolister, David Thomas and Alan Garner. During her studies, she was a semi-finalist in the Trinity Laban soloists competition and performed with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Performances have taken Catherine across the UK and to Europe, in concert halls and theatres, including Cadogan Hall and the Mayflower Theatre. She has played in France, Spain, the Netherlands and with the Berlin Opera Academy in Switzerland. Catherine has given recitals for the Iris Axon Concert Series, in the Old Royal Naval College Chapel and at Southwark Cathedral. As a soloist, she has performed with the Marcello Oboe Concerto and she is a member of Hacha Duo and Kander Ensemble. Catherine has performed in masterclasses for Juliana Koch and Tom Blomfield and received a scholarship to study with David Theodore at the British Isles Music Festival.
Catherine has played in a number of chamber groups, commissioning new works for oboe and harp, cor anglais and bass clarinet, as well as performing in commissions for ensembles featuring the double bass. Catherine is also co-artistic director of Collective31, UK Contemporary Music and Arts. She enjoys immersing herself in all the arts and collaborating across the art forms.
Catherine plays a Marigaux 2001 oboe and a Lorée cor anglais.
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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