ISBN 9781491110645. 9 x 12 inches.
Sonata for E-Flat Clarinet and Piano Sean Osborn is both a virtuoso clarinetist, and an elegantly fun composer of "neo-populist" concert and recital music. In creating a sonata for his own performance on Eb Clarinet, Osborn's charm, dynamic energy, depth, and folkloric sense all culminate in a must-have major addition to the Eb Clarinet repertoire, already celebrated on state lists prior to publication. The three movements are subtitled April Morning, Night Music, and Jig. For advanced performers. Composer and clarinetist Sean Osborn has toured North America, Europe, and Japan as a soloist, and traveled the world during his eleven years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has performed as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra. The New York Times dubbed him an excellent clarinetist, and Gramophone Magazine called him a master clarinetist. A winner of the 2017 International Clarinet Associations Composition Competition for Meditation and Funk, and recipient of an Accomplished Musician award from the IBLA Grand Prize for his Symphony No. 1, September 11th, Sean has also received multiple ASCAP Plus awards. He has been commissioned by multiple performers, ensembles, and institutions, including the Cornish College of the Arts, the Seattle Bass Clarinet Project, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Woodwind Quintet. His compositions have been widely performed by amateurs, students, and professionals, including the London Philharmonic, Auburn Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Saxophone Quartet, Boston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Marlboro Music Festival. Osborns music has been recorded on the Cambria and Albany labels, and reviewers have called his music full of ingenious antiphony and counterpoint (ClassicalNet), fun-to-play (The Clarinet), engaging (Fanfare), and impetuous (Hoffner Volksblatt). Combining multiple styles and genres (Modern, Gregorian, Rock, Folk, Post-Minimal, etc.) with the styles of his Celtic and Native American heritage, Mr. Osborn achieves a synthesis like no other. Complex overlapping rhythm and ostinati often combine with multiple simultaneous tempos and free melodies. Extended techniques, game pieces, and various degrees of free improvisation make up his wide and colorful palette, with each unusual sound always in service to the musical expression.
