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REPERTOIRE SESSIONS
Session 6: Saturday, July 18
Amador Valley High School
Jonathan Grantham, Director
Pleasanton, California
Champ de Mars Par Jour de Lumere - Eric Champagne
Fanfarria - Javier Perez Garrido
On This Bright Morning - David Maslanka
Persian Dances No. 2&3 - Amir Molookpour
Arcana - Kevin Houben
Champ-de-Mars, Par Jour de Lumiere (2004)
20’ Grade 5.5 Editions GAM, Canada
The symphonic band work Champ-de-Mars, Par Jour de Lumiere (Champ-de-Mars, By Day
of Light) was inspired by a large, abstract stained-glass design that was integrated into the sta-
tion above Montreal's Champ-de-Mars metro stop in the 1960s. The composition won the Mi-
chael Hennigan Memorial Composition Prize at Oklahoma State University. Written in 12
continually connecting tableaux, Champagne's colorfully orchestrated composition captures
the impressions of light refracted by Marcelle Ferron's fresco.
Eric Champagne (b. 1980)
Born in Montreal, Eric Champagne began his musical
training in 1992, studying both the clarinet and the bass
clarinet. As an instrumentalist, he played primarily in
wind ensembles including Grande Fanfare Classique
and Harmonie Laval. He studied composition with
Michel Tétrault at CÉGEP de Saint-Laurent and then
with Michel Longtin, Hugues Leclerc and Robert Nor-
mandeau at the University of Montreal. He completed
his Baccalaureate in 2002 and his Masters in 2003 un-
der the supervision of Hugues Leclair. As part of his
graduate level studies, Eric composed his first opera,
Miss Julie, based on the work of August Strindberg. His
compositions focus mainly on instrumental music, with
an interest also for the human voice and wind instru-
ments.
Fanfaria (2013)
3’ 30” Grade 4 Molenaar Editions, The Netherlands
Fanfarria is a short fanfare commissioned by the Municipal Symphonic Band of Alicante for
the centenary of their founding. The main epic theme is introduced by the trumpets in a style
reminiscent of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. The theme is developed through the
appearance of the different band sections in counterpoint. Finally, a brilliant coda that builds
to a final apotheosis ends the composition, which was also written to celebrate the
completion of fifty compositions in Perez Garrido´s opus collection.
Javier Perez Garrido (b. 1986)
Composer, conductor, clarinetist and teacher, Javier
Pérez Garrido has studied with many renown
musicians in Spain and other countries, and holds
an Advanced Degree in Clarinet Performance and
Composition from the Conservatory of Murcia,
Spain. He has been given performance and
composition awards in several national and
international music competitions. Pérez Garrido has
played as soloist with many of the most important
youth wind and symphonic orchestras around
Europe. Since 1998, he has composed nearly 80
works including solo, chamber music,
ensemble, choir, concert band and orchestra pieces.
He has both conducted and performed as a solo
clarinetist with numerous bands and orchestras
across the country. Currently he continues
composing, conducting, playing and teaching
master classes in various music schools and
conservatories in Cartagena, Spain.
On This Bright Morning (2013)
10’ Grade 4 Maslanka Music Press, United States
There are times of stability in life, and times of significant transition. Transitions can be
upsetting, often provoked or accompanied by physical or emotional troubles. They are times
of uncertainty and unknowing, but also the times of greatest creative change. On This Bright
Morning acknowledges the struggle, and the feelings of pain and loss in times of transition,
but embodies the pure joy of realizing the bigger life. On this bright morning, life is new, life
is possible.
David Maslanka (b. 1943)
David Maslanka was born in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. He attended the Oberlin College
Conservatory where he studied composition with
Joseph Wood. He spent a year at the Mozarteum in
Salzburg, Austria, and did masters and doctoral
study in composition at Michigan State University
where his principal teacher was H. Owen Reed.
Maslanka’s music for winds has become especially
well known. Among his more than 130 works are
forty pieces for wind ensemble, including seven
symphonies, fifteen concertos, a Mass, and many
concert pieces. His chamber music includes four
wind quintets, five saxophone quartets, and many
works for solo instrument and piano. In addition, he
has written a variety of orchestral and choral pieces.
Persian Dances Nos. 2 & 3 (2014)
3’ (each movement) Grade 3.5 Hafabra Music, Belgium
In these four Persia Dances commissioned by Louis Martinus, the Iranian composer uses some of the peculiar-
ities of the Persian traditional and folkloristic music with a mixture of various rhythmic and structural ap-
proaches. Each of the dances is written in a different traditional Persian scale and there is a very strong ten-
dency towards the creation of the melodies almost in the same way used by the Iranian composers of the tradi-
tional music in the past centuries. Furthermore, Molookpour on the one hand tries to create these dances with
this kind of intention toward the melody structures, and on the other hand, he uses the western musical tech-
niques of composition in a very simple manner to bring these two cultural diversities more close. The four
dances are each published separately.
Amir Molookpour
Amir Molookpour began to study the traditional
Persian music at the age of nine. After some years he
began to study the Western music as an autodidact
and since 1994 followed specialization classes with
Hassan Riahi, the composer of the last Iranian
National Anthem. In 1995 he began to collaborate
with the symphony orchestra of the Iranian radio and
television as a composer and arranger, writing
several pieces for symphonic and chamber orchestra,
including a Fantasy for Tar and Orchestra and the
Short Suite for small orchestra, which was elected as
one of the best composition of the Iranian National
Radio in 1999. He was one of the first members and
co-founders of the Association of Young Iranians
Composers who has had a considerable success at
national level. In 2001 Molookpour moved to Italy to
study Musicology at the University of Pavia (in
Cremona) continuing to work with the Symphony
Orchestra of the Iranian Radio as a composer. He did
researches on the role and functions of music in the
religious rituals of the Zoroastrians of Iran, which
later became the subject of his thesis in the Faculty
of Musicology in Cremona.
Arcana(2004)
10’” Grade 5 Dehaske Publications, The Netherlands
Arcana is the plural of the Latin word “arcanum”, meaning secret. In the title, it is used in the
sense of unraveling the rich past of the Royal Fanfare Sint-Jozefsgilde Mol-Sluis (Belgium)
and opening up perspectives for its future. During the misterioso beginning of the work, a
historic atmosphere is created to reflect the founding of the society. Then follows a bustling
middle part, which provides a challenge for each musician because of the difficult rhythms
and combined play. After this energetic passage, a very melodious part follows that makes
people overlook earlier problems, and that offers new possibilities by means of the musical
reflection of a consequent youth policy, which determines the future of
each society. Finally, there is a broad build-up to the festive finale, once more symbolizing the
strength and energy of youth.
Kevin Houben (b. 1977)
Kevin Houben was born in Peer (Belgium) in 1977. From a
young age, Kevin had a strong fascination for music. After
high school in Peer, he studied at the Lemmens Institute in
Leuven. He obtained a master in Concert Band conducting
(with Jan Van der Roost), Symphonic Band conducting
(with Edmond Saveniers), composition and orchestration
(with Jan Van der Roost), chamber music and solfege.
Kevin Houben's oeuvre, from 2001 composed only on
commission, comprises works for solo instrument, brass
quintet, brass ensemble, percussion ensemble, wind
orchestra, fanfare orchestra, brass band and symphonic
orchestra. Kevin is also conductor of the Youth Wind
Band of the Koninklijke Harmonie van Peer and the
Fanfare Orchestra St. Jozefsgilde Mol-Sluis. He is
assistant conductor at the Koninklijke Harmonie van Peer.
With the Youth Wind Band of the Koninklijke Harmonie
van Peer, he won first prize at the International
Competition for Youth Wind Bands of the Mid Europe
festival in Schladming (Austria) in July 2010.
All works on today’s reading
session are available for sale from:
Midwest Sheet Music
2616 Metro Blvd
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
Ph. 314-942-1522
Instrumental@MidwestSheetMusic.com
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