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Width : 4.9 inch
Height : 0.4 inch
Length : 5.6 inch

Item Weight: 3.2 ounce (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounce (View shipping rates and policies)

ASIN : B002UFWYFC

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Robert Baksa is a composer of distinct personality. His music''s broad, passionate intensity shimmers with transparent textures and melodies that exploit the full beauty of an instrument''s sounds. One wants to hear it over and over. Baksa rejects experimentation, cliche and gimmickry. Critics have described his work as resolutely and stubbornly tonal, embarrassingly attractive, and unconventionally conventional. They acknowledge that he is a superb melodist, and that his works possess impressive contrapuntal effectiveness. Baksa honors traditional musical approaches, yet the music overflows those forms and vocabularies. His undeniably modern music is rewarding to perform and elicits enthusiastic audience response. The chamber works presented here are chamber music concertante in the very best sense. The guitar is prominent, participating fully in the important thematic material in substantive and sophisticated ways. The music requires the same dexterity and expressive palette from the guitar that it does from the flute and viola.
The HEIM DUO has been featured on the internationally syndicated program Classical Guitar Alive. Pan Magazine of the British Flute Society called their performance of Robert Baksas Celestials a dazzling performance of a dazzling work! The Duo was invited to perform at the 2004 National Flute Association Convention in San Diego, California, and presented a series of concerts of American and British works for flute and guitar in London and the surrounding area in summer of 2006. Annette Heim holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Robert Cole. She also studied with Thomas Perazzoli and Max Schoenfeld, and has performed in master classes with Paula Robison and Eugenia Zukerman. Annette is currently a flutist with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in Alabama. Bret Heim holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Arizona where he studied with Thomas Patterson. He has performed in master classes with Eliot Fisk, Pepe Romero, David Leisner and David Tanenbaum. Mr. Heim has performed concertos of Rodrigo, Brouwer, Villa-Lobos, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Giuliani with orchestras across the United States, and is currently an Associate Professor at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.
CHRISTINE BOCK enjoys a reputation as one of the Midwest s most sought-after violists. She has appeared as soloist with the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Symphony, and South Bend Symphony, and has performed at New York''s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. Ms. Bock is current principal violist of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Chamber Orchestra. Also active as a pedagogue, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Millikin University for 18 years, has been on the faculty at Knox College and Andrews University. As a member of the South Bend Symphony String Quintet, she performed in numerous concerts for young audiences. Ms. Bock holds a Master of Music degree in performance from Northwestern University and is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois where she studies with Rudolf Haken.
ROBERT BAKSA was born in New York City to Hungarian parents but grew up and was educated in the Southwest, graduating with a BA in Composition from the University of Arizona. Mr. Baksa has composed nearly 600 works in a variety of forms, including two operas, numerous art songs, choral music, keyboard works and much chamber music. His sonatas for woodwind instruments have been particularly widely performed and his choral works have long been a part of the repertory. Baksa s one-act opera Red Carnations has been performed as an introduction to opera by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Opera and St Luke''s.

Track Listings
1. Baksa: Sonata for Flute and Guitar, Brightly
2. Baksa: Sonata for Flute and Guitar, Very smoothly
3. Baksa: Sonata for Flute and Guitar, Lively
4. Baksa: Sonata da Camera for Solo Guitar, Strongly rhythmic
5. Baksa: Sonata da Camera for Solo Guitar, Dreamily, but not too slow, rather freely
6. Baksa: Sonata da Camera for Solo Guitar, With great rhythmic vitality
7. Baksa: Journeys for Flute, Viola and Guitar, Striving
8. Baksa: Journeys for Flute, Viola and Guitar, Arriving
9. Baksa: Sonata da Giardino for Solo Guitar, Rather fast
10. Baksa: Sonata da Giardino for Solo Guitar, Gently rocking, not too strict
11. Baksa: Sonata da Giardino for Solo Guitar, Lively
12. Baksa: Celestial for Flute and Guitar, Moon Drifts
13. Baksa: Celestial for Flute and Guitar, Sun Tones
14. Baksa: Celestial for Flute and Guitar, Rain Shapes
15. Baksa: Celestial for Flute and Guitar, Star Drops
16. Baksa: Celestial for Flute and Guitar, Wind Hues