Soprano voice

SKU: OT.28101

Composed by Daniel Akiva. For mezzo-soprano and piano. Classical, Jewish. Performance score. OR-TAV Music Publications #28101. Published by OR-TAV Music Publications (OT.28101).

ISBN 9789655050752. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Song cycle in Ladino for mezzo-soprano and piano.
The song cycle Sarina kanta is sung in Ladino and was inspired by Sephardic folk songs. Various folk songs are quoted in the work. The first movement is a fantasia based on a poem by Avner Perez, Sarina kanta romansas, (Sarina sings romances). Sarina is Perez' grandmother, whose memory is recalled in this cycle of poems. The remaining movements are based on songs from the Ladino repertoire. Sarina kanta is also published for soprano and piano, and in the original version for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra.
Contents:
Sarina kanta
Una matika de ruda
Ya abasha la novia
La Estreyas
Ya salio de la mar
Daniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. FOr many years he chaired the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-1019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he has developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.
Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014.
A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shamash, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.

Soprano voice

SKU: ST.Y341

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Vocal music. Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y341. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y341).

ISBN 9790220225208.

The anonymous 14th-century poem Yr Alarch ('The Swan') is a striking portrait of 'this being without blemish', conveyed in terms of memorable imagery which has inspired Rhian Samuel's short setting for unaccompanied voice, a true solo song and vocal showcase.

This solo soprano version was first performed by Elin Manahan Thomas at Powis Hall, Bangor University, on 3 March 2016, as part of the Bangor Music Festival.

Soprano Voice

SKU: BT.MUSM570200207

Composed by David Lumsdaine. Vocal Score. 7 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570200207. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570200207).

English.

For solo Soprano. Published in 1974. Text from Tamil love poems. Commissioned by Camden Festival. First performance by Jane Manning, London 1975. Score.

Soprano Book with Online Audio. Edited by Richard Walters. Vocal Collection. Piece for the NFMC Vocal event with the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) Festivals Bulletin 2008-2009-2010. Instruction, Classical. Softcover Audio Online. 224 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Various. Edited by Richard Walters. Vocal Collection. Piece for the NFMC Vocal event with the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) Festivals Bulletin 2008-2009-2010. Broadway, Instruction. Softcover book and online audio. 232 pages. Published by Hal Leonard