Duets?!


 

A Duet for Our Time by Eric Ewazen - György Gyivicsan, Brandt Attema & Szeged Trombone Ensemble

This music is for solo tenor & bass trombone with trombone sextet (8 parts total). "Ewazen takes his Palisades Suite (A Trio for Our Time) and fashions a duet for solo tenor trombone and solo bass trombone, with trombone sextet in support." -the publisher

Movements entitled: of Beauty; of Chaos; of Anguish; of Hope.

György Gyivicsan, graduated from the University of Szeged – Faculty of Music in 2001. After this he got admitted to the college of Freiburg as one of the pupils of the famous trombonist Branimir Slokar. In 2003 he won the prestigious International competition in Porcia (Italy). In 2004 he received an invitation from prof. Slokar to become a perpetual member of the Slokar Quartet. Till the end of 2019 they have made numerous CD albums and hundreds of concerts all over the world. In 2015 Gyivicsan started teaching at University of Szeged – Faculty of Music as a trombone professor. He has been regularly invited to give concerts and to host master classes in Portugal, Italy, Austria, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Slovenia, Bulgaria (in 2019 and 2021) and the US. He hosted a master class in Argentina at the spectacular Trombonanza Festival in 2013 and 2015. He earned a DLA at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Doctoral School in 2013. Nowadays he is professor at the same Academy in Budapest, Hungary, founder and leading trombonist at the attractive Szeged Trombone Ensemble. 

Brandt Attema, Brandt Attema is professor for trombone at the University of Music in Karlsruhe (DE). He is a member of the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, the New Trombone Collective and the Slide Monsters with Joe Alessi, Marshall Gilkes and Eijiro Nakagawa. Attema has been playing in a duo with the harpist Astrid Haring since July 2008 and the two have since performed numerous times all over the world.
From 1999 to 2019 Attema was a member of the Radio-Philharmonic Orchestra of the Netherlands. As a guest he played with many Dutch and international orchestras such as the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonics. As a member of the New Trombone Collectives, Brandt Attema is involved in the organization of the Slide Factory Festival, an international trombone festival in Rotterdam that takes place every two years.
As a teacher he taught at both the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and the Codarts in Rotterdam (NL). Attema is currently professor for trombone at the University of Music in Karlsruhe (DE).
THEIN was a great discovery for Brandt at the beginning of his musical career. He says about the instruments: “Sound and flexibility are what make the instruments unique. They surprise every day with new colors and effects.” As well as: “The THEIN trombones support my creativity and are absolutely reliable. ”(Attema Brandt).
Brandt Attema plays exclusively THEIN Trombones.

Five American Sketches for Trombone and Horn by Brad Edwards (2012)
The movements includes :Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair, Soldier Boy, Shenandoah, All the Pretty Little Horses, and Dunderbeck. 
(https://www.hornbonepress.com/ , https://www.trombonezone.org/compositions/ are very nice websites to find resources for brass music.)


Cat Affairs Trombone Tuba Duet with Joseph L. Jefferson

Cat Affairs is composed by Anna Baadsvik. I personally think it works pretty with the trombone and tuba, and the sound is more colorful and clear.

Cat Affairs for two tubas and piano is best summed up as: Samba with an attitude! Tuba duet with piano. Alternative parts for euphonium. Possible to play with only tubas, two euphoniums or any combination of these.




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