

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
The Serpent (2020) is an outstanding single-movement work for solo bass clarinet which would provide excellent challenges for the advanced high school or collegiate performer. There is no use of extended techniques, but very effective use of the full expressive and technical range of the instrument. The piece has a duration of about 6 minutes.
Solo score: 4 pages, loose-leaf to facilitate page turns. Extended-range instrument is required.
Hard Copy Edition
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About the Composer
Elise Winkler was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Born to a family of musicians, Elise grew up constantly surrounded by the sounds of flute and classical saxophone. Throughout her life, Elise has had a variety of musical experiences, including piano lessons, choral ensembles, and musical theatre. Because of her wide background, she has strong artistic influences from a number of sources. Elise recently finished her senior year at Emerald Ridge High School and is currently studying music composition at the Juilliard School with Dr. Melinda Wagner. Her works have been performed by members of the Seattle Symphony and the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated in Symphony Tacoma's Cascade Composition Workshop and the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artists’ Summer Program.
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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