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A Selected List of Sonia Jacobsen's Compositions as of January '99   [orchestral_music], [chamber_music], [jazz_big_band], [jazz_small_ensemble]

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Orchestral:

• Chamber Concerto N° 1 (1997) alias 'Chamber Concerto for Strings'

  For string orchestra with three improvising soloists (violin, cello and bass).

   

  Recording available with Philharmonia Virtuosi, featuring soloists Gregor Huebner - violin, Tomas Ulrich - cello, Johannes Weidenmueller - bass, conducted by Bernd Ruf.

  RealAudio exerts:

  first movement (99k) , download time at 28 K: approx.: 34 seconds

  second movement (170k) approx.: 55 seconds

  third movement (259k) approx.: 84 seconds

   

  Duration: ca. 17:30 min.

   

  Commissioned by Bernd Ruf

   

  Premiered by Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra October 1998

   

  Preview a perusal score: Chamber Concerto N° One

   

• Chamber Concerto N° 2 (1998)

  For string orchestra with featured improvising violin soloist.

   

  Arranged from Tryzone Suite for string quartet.

  Duration: ca 20 min

   

  Preview a perusal score Chamber Concerto N° 2

   

in progress:

• Concerto for Jazz Orchestra, Percussion and Strings (1998)

  Commissioning grant received from American Composer's Forum (1997)

   

• Saxophone Concerto

  For strings and tenor saxophone

   

  To be premiered 1999 by Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with Peter Lehel on saxophone conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

   

See also From First To Fifth for Jazz Orchestra and Strings

Chamber music:

• String Quartet N° 1 : The Tryzone Suite (1996)

  for 2 violins, cello and bass, all improvisers.

  Recording available with No Strings Attached.

  Duration: ca. 30 min.

  Preview a perusal score Tryzone Suite score

• White Nite Song (1996)
  • for 2 violins, cello and bass, all improvisers.

    Recording available with No Strings Attached

• Avalanche (1993)
  • for 2 violins, cello and bass, all improvisers.

    Recording available with No Strings Attached

• Weavers Of Wonder (1992)
  • for 2 violins, cello and bass, all improvisers.

    Recording available with No Strings Attached

    Weavers Of Wonder (complete) (516k) approx. download time at 28.8 K : 3 minutes

• Everybody's Seen The Moose But Me
  • for violin (soloist), cello, soprano saxophone, trombone, guitar, bass and percussion

    Recording available on CD "Avalanche"

    Description: "chamber jazz" crossover

  String quartet version also available (First movement of Tryzone Suite )

• Textures Of Time
  • for 2 violins, cello and bass

  This piece has an interesting history. It was recorded before it was composed! Impossible? No, the musicians were given a tempo and the instructions to improvise percussive sounds on their instruments for 20 seconds. Out of this raw and incoherent material, Sonia used cut-and-paste techniques on ProTools software to create a new composition.

   

  Textures Of Time (142k) approx. download time at 28.8 K : 46 seconds

   

• Rust
  • for 2 violins, cello and bass

  Another example of creative editing. This time it is Gregor Huebner who is the victim. His solo has been torn apart and a new piece has been reconstructed with the material.

  Rust (264k) approx. download time at 28.8 K : 85 seconds

Jazz, big band:

• Melting Pot (1995)
  • for Jazz Orchestra

    Recording available with Mosaic Orchestra

    (4 WW, 3 high brass, 3 low brass, marimba, guitar, bass, drums and percussion)

    Recording also available with the French L'Orchestre National de Jazz (Radio France broadcast)

    Description: strong afro feel in 15/8

    This piece won the votes of both the jury and the audience in L'Orchestre National de Jazz's composition contest, December 1996.

    Preview a perusal score Melting Pot score

  Melting Pot complete (885k) approx. download time at 56 K : 2 minutes

• Not Yet (1996)
  • for Jazz Orchestra

    Recording available with Mosaic Orchestra

    Description: funk inspired

    Small combo version also available

    Preview a perusal score Not Yet score

    Not Yet complete (550k) approx. download time at 56 K : 96 seconds

• Anyone Got One? (1997)
  • for Jazz Orchestra

    Description: afro-inspired 6/8 groove, features a drum solo and an out'ish energy tenor solo, has a fun metric modulation (with a quarter-note triplet becoming an eighth note in the following section)

    Anyone Got One? score

     

• Avalanche (1995)
  • for Jazz Orchestra

    Description: rhythmically challenging with metric modulations, cross rhythms and poly rhythms

    Version for string orchestra, string quartet and small jazz ensemble also available. Title track of CD Avalanche in a small combo version.

• From First To Fifth (1998)

  For Jazz Orchestra and String Trio (or larger string section)

  Duration: ca. 10'35

   

  Commissioned by IAJE / ASCAP (International Association of Jazz Educators; and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) in honor of Benny Carter.

   

  Premiered by the Kim Richmond Jazz Orchestra in Los Angeles at the opening of the IAJE convention January, 1999.

   

  Description: changing meters, funk inspired 5/4 time signature. The rhythm is playing around with the 5/4 meter subdivided in 5/8 and enlarged to a 10/4 (written out in 6/4 + 4/4 for simplicity).

  Solos are for trumpet and tenor or soprano saxophone, but there is a large mallet feature (marimba and vibes)

   

  Preview a perusal score From First To Fifth

Jazz, small ensemble:

• Skyline

  Description: blues in 7/8

  for quartet

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

• Avalanche

  for 3 horns plus rhythm section

  Composed 1992, NY

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

   

• Everybody's Seen The Moose But Me

  for soprano saxophone, trombone, guitar, violin, cello, bass and drums

  composed 1994, Sandpoint, Idaho

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

   

• There Will Be One

  for jazz quintet: soprano saxophone, trombone, piano, bass and drums

  Description: dramatic ballad

  Composed 1992, NY

  Recording available on CD Avalanche (see Discography)

  Preview perusal score There Will Be One score

   

• Mood's Mode

  for 2 horns plus rhythm section

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

  description: "medieval rock" - free modal thing

  Composed 1990, Grenoble, France

   

• Expectations

  for 2 horns plus rhythm section

  Composed 1992, NY

  description: jazz waltz feel with a few 2/4 bars thrown in here and there. Simple, standard-like form: head, blowing (in 3/4), head

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

  Preview perusal score Expectations score

   

• Ocean

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

  Description: "chamber jazz"

  Composed 1988, Grenoble, France

   

• Weavers Of Wonder

  for 2-3 horns plus rhythm section or quartet

  Composed 1992, NY

  Recording available on CD Avalanche

  Preview perusal score Weavers Of Wonder score

• Melting Pot

  for soprano and alto saxophones, trombone, guitar, bass and percussion

  a small combo version of the award-winning big band arrangement  Melting Pot Big Band version

• Not Yet

  for 3 horns plus rhythm section Not Yet Big Band Version

  Composed 1994, NY

   

• Number Nine

  Composed 1989, Grenoble, France

   

• Train To Spain

  Composed 1990, Grenoble, France

   

• Fifth Avenue

   

• Motorino

  Composed 1993, NY

  Recording available by S.J's Quintet 1994

   

• Fata Morgana

  for 5 horns plus rhythm section

   

• No More

  for 5 horns plus rhythm section

  Composed 1989 Grenoble, France

   

• From First To Fifth

  composed 1996-98

   

• Needless To Say

  for 3 horns (soprano and alto saxophones, trombone and rhythm section)

  Composed 1989, Grenoble, France

   

• Come On

  Description: ballad

  for 3 horns (soprano and alto saxophones, trombone and rhythm section)

   

• Odd Blue

   

• Mon Quartier

  Composed 1989 Grenoble, France

   

 This list is currently being completed - soon there will be many more audio samples and perusal scores.

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