Aura

for clarinet solo (2011)

Greek in origin, the word "Aura" has multiple meanings, which stand for "air; atmosphere; sensation..." These meanings are interpreted in the piece through the use of extended techniques.

Program Notes:

The idea of this piece came to me in conversation with the clarinetist Virginia Costa Figueiredo, who asked me to write a piece for clarinet. Another clarinetist, Andrew Leonard, made a lot of suggestions on notation and extended techniques and gave the first performance of Aura.

The word aura has multiple meanings:
au·ra [awr-uh]:
1. a distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere: an aura of respectability; an aura of friendliness.
2. a subtly pervasive quality or atmosphere seen as emanating from a person, place, or thing.
3. Pathology. a sensation, as of lights or a current of warm or cold air, preceding an attack of migraine or epilepsy.

Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < >-Quoted from Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.

Instrumentation: clarinet
Duration: c. 7-12 minutes
Premiere: 2012, Synchromy concert series, Andrew Leonard (clarinet)

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Performances:

February 8th, 2024

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Ariana Warren

Cuyamaca College, Samuel M. Ciccati Theatre (El Cajon, California)

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November 9th, 2023

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Ariana Warren

The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (San Diego, CA)

This performance is a part of "Made in California" festival by San Diego New Music.

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Exhibition

July 12th, 2021

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Oleg Tantsov, MCME ensemble

Ground Solyanka (Moscow, Russia)

This ongoing recorded performance of "Aura" was a part of "Solo Exhibition" at Ground Solyanka from July 12-August 22, 2021. The recording was made for the SoundReview CD Project by Melodya.

June 10th, 2021

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Oleg Tantsov, MCME ensemble

Siberian State Institute for the Arts, Chamber Academic Concert Hall (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

November 16th, 2020

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Brooke Miller

Voertman Hall, UNT College of Music (Denton, TX)

November 6th, 2017

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011) - Francois Houle

The Annex (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

This performance is a part of the 2017 World Music Days festival in Vancouver, for which my piece was selected to represent Russian ISCM section.

March 4th, 2016

Aura, for clarinet solo (2011)