About the Music

Intrada & Bourrée is a brief, charming two-movement work for reed quintet, specifically: clarinet, oboe, alto saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon. Baroque in form and inspiration but modern in its language, the work would make an excellent addition to a concert program. All five parts are quite accessible, making this work a good choice for teachers searching for this unique instrumentation for their students to perform!

Score: 15 pages, spiral bound. Parts: 4 pages each, booklet format. Extended range instrument NOT required for bass clarinet.

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About the Composer

Anna Vriend (1961) started playing the recorder at the age of 9 and went on playing the modern flute and later the baroque flute. As a multi-instrumentalist, she has written music for a broad range of instruments including recorders, reed quintet, strings, mandolins, reed-organ, piano and choir.

Her piece “My heart is like a singing bird” for flute and soprano was selected as one of the runners-up for Anima Vox’s call for scores and competition “O Blissful Loss of Self” (USA). It will be performed in Anima Vox’s concert at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts in March 2021 and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the 2021- 2022 academic year.

Anna won the third prize in the VIII International Composition Competition Opus Ignotum (Czech Republic) with “Což ten slavíček”, a work for women’s choir and obligato flute.

Performances of her work include her carol “A child this day is born” by the SRP (Society of Recorder Players) Essex Branch, the Mellow Tones Recorder Orchestra, and St. John’s Singers in Loughton (UK).

She is active in attending masterclasses at the London music colleges. As a choral singer, she has sung in choirs such as the Koor Nieuwe Muziek in Amsterdam, the Schola Cantorum in Florence, the Kammerchor der Kreuzchirche in Bonn. She is a member of the Meljon Singers, and she sings in her local church choir. She is studying composition privately with Alexander Campkin.