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1 2012 Works Catalog Composers bios Information 20 Kranias Str. - Gerakas Greece

2 Preface This Editions Musica Ferrum 2011 catalog is the first to emerge from the newly founded music publishing house. It contains information about all the works that are currently in print, the composers and any other information available at this point. The catalog is divided into four sections. The first section includes technical information about the scores, the use of this catalog, abbreviations used in the text and other. The second section contains a register of all the works currently in print, alphabetized by the composers last name. The register of the works offers the basic data of each individual work (title, number of pages, instrumentation, price and year of composition if known). The third section includes all the composers' biographies. Lastly the forth section holds all the information available for Editions Musica Ferrum. Nikolas Sideris Editor in Chief 20 Kranias Str. - Gerakas - Greece info@musica-ferrum.com Telephone: For more information please visit All information in this catalog is subject to change without notice.

3 I Technical Information

4 Technical Information Using the Catalog Symbols This digital catalog contains clickable links, which will guide you to the Editions Musica Ferrum website. The title of each work is a link which if clicked will take you to the right url in order to buy the score, read more info, hear the recordings, watch a related video, etc. The following signs can be found in the works' catalog: This was made for your convenience and as such, despite the added elements in the digital format, you are not forced to use any of these features. It should be noted that the catalog, as a PDF file, does not copy any information to and from the Internet and does not create any cookies from your computer. : Recording available : Portrait layout : Landscape layout : Large Size Score : Youtube video available Quality of Scores The paper colour and weight are ideal for the everyday use of every musician. All the scores are saddle-stitched so that they can lie flat on a table or the music stand without the pages turning on their own. Score sizes, unless otherwise noted are 23,5x31cm (9,25x12,2 ) and the layout is portrait, again unless otherwise noted.

5 II Works Catalog

6 Works Catalog Anastassiou, Christos Sp. Diastasis for chamber orchestra 80 pages ISMN: Intermezzo for solo piano 28 pages ISMN: Monologue for solo clarinet in Bb 12 pages ISMN: Nomos for string quartet 28 pages ISMN: Nomos (with parts) for string quartet 28 pages & 8 pages each part as an insert ISMN: Stochasmos for solo flute 16 pages ISMN: String Quartet No. 2 (with parts) 24 pages & 8 pages each part as an insert ISMN: Drelas, Nikos And... it's gone for solo guitar 8 pages ISMN: Fragments for clarinet, bassoon, soprano and violin 16 pages ISMN: Memories... they always find their way for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and violoncello 8 pages ISMN: Repetition is no crime for violoncello and piano 12 pages & 6 pages the part as an insert ISMN: String Quartet No pages ISMN: Searching for guitar duet 12 pages ISMN:

7 The past strikes again for piano duet 12 pages ISMN: Metamorphosis for percussion and piano 16 pages 4 pages the part as an insert ISMN: Hollington Banaby A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia for symphonic orchestra 92 pages ISMN: Bagatelle for string quartet 24 pages ISMN: Mood Music For Wind Trio for flute, oboe and bassoon 20 pages ISMN: Mood Music for Wind Trio (with parts) for flute, oboe and bassoon 20 pages & 8 pages each part as an insert ISMN: Bagatelle (with parts) for string quartet 24 pages & 8 pages each part as an insert ISMN: Mechanical Avunculogratulation for chamber orchestra (14 performers) 116 pages ISMN: Sideris Nikolas Le hasard et la nécessité for string orchestra 16 pages ISMN: Non-Unique for flute and piano 20 pages & 6 pages the part as an insert ISMN: Sahar G. Christopher Crossing the Strats for soprano, tenor, clarinet and piano 32 pages & 8 pages the cl. part as an insert ISMN: Perniciosus for solo piano pages ISMN:

8 Sketch Music for solo piano 28 pages ISMN: Superabimus for string orchestra 20 pages ISMN: Woodruff A. Jason Falling Ash for solo flute 8 pages ISMN: Permutations for solo piano 12 pages ISMN:

9 III Composers' Biographies

10 Composers' Biographies Anastassiou Sp. Christos Christos Sp. Anastassiou was born in Athens, where he studied and got degrees in harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and fugue. He also studied the art of conducting with Lefteris Halkiadakis. He carried on studying composition with Theodoros Antoniou with whom he got a diploma in composition and orchestra conducting. He has participated in a number of seminars about contemporary concert hall music in Greece and Abroad. His studies in composition, analysis and conducting were concluded in the university of Belgrade with Professors Srdjan Hofman, Zoran Eric and Raiko Maksimovic with whom he got a Masters of Arts in He has been honoured in several competitions, like being a finalist of the "ALEA II" International Competition of Composition of the University of Boston, with his work Anakyklisis, finalist in the final of the "OLYMPIA" International Competition of Composition in Athens, with his work Nomos for string quartet, finalist in the 3rd Festival of contemporary music of Belgrade with his work Variations for solo guitar and finalist of the "Taukay" International Competition of Composition in Italy, with his work Anima Mundi for electronic media. As a composer he has composed for a wide variety of media (more than 60 works), including solo, chamber orchestra, symphonic orchestra, string quartets, works for voice, choral music, music for the theatre and television and works for electronic media. His works have been performed by important ensembles of the international contemporary music scene. Many of his works are commissioned by musical organizations and institutions in Greece and abroad (ALEA III, Taukai Edizioni Musicali, Megaron of Athens, etc). Currently he lives in Athens. He is Professor of Composition and director of studies in various Conservatories in Athens. He has also repeatedly lectured and taught in seminars on the music of the 20th century. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Greek "Composers Union".

11 Drelas Nikos Nikos Drelas was born in Athens in From 1977 up to 1982 he lived in Thessalonica, Greece studying Mathematics at the local University and Harmony with Yiannis Mantakas at the "Neo Odeio" Conservatorium. He took classes in Counterpoint and Composition from Michalis Travlos at the Nikos Skalkotas School of music in Athens and in 1984 he commenced his studies at the department of Composition of "Hochschule der Künste - Berlin" under Witold Szalonek while he also attended seminars in Conducting from Friedrich Goldmann. His music has been performed in Greece and abroad and he's participated in "Gaudeamus International Music Days" in Amsterdam with his work Strophes for mixed choir. The same work was selected to represent Greece at the "Music Days" of ISCM. He was granted a studendship by the "Moysigetis" society, whereas the Department of Culture of the then West Berlin granted him a scholarship in the form of a commission for a composition. He's also participated in the "Conferenza Musicale Mediteranea Palermo" with his work Thetia for 4 voices, guitar, percussion and piano. His compositions hold elements of traditional music due to his experiential relationship with it. Pitch material, melodic fragments, rhythms and gestures in his compositions can reveal this relationship, although not in an apparent way. He lives and works as a teacher and a composer in Athens since Hollington Barnaby Barnaby Hollington was born in Norwich, Great Britain, in He grew up mainly in Australia and France, but returned to Britain in 1993, and now lives in London. He studied music at New College, Oxford and composition with Timothy Salter at the Royal College of Music. He then worked briefly as a violinist, before training as a teacher. After initially giving up composition altogether to concentrate on his teaching work, Barnaby then returned to composition, this time adopting a radically different

12 approach. The new approach proved successful. Since 2004, his music has begun to gain recognition internationally, with several awards, including 1st prize and a special prize in the International Composition Prize Luxembourg (2006) for Mechanical Avunculogratulation, 2nd prize in the First Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Composition Competition (Japan, 2006) for Con Brio, 3rd prize in the Chamber Category of the First Alexander Moyzes International Competition for Composers (Slovakia, 2006) for Magnificent Octopus, 2nd prize in the Zeitklang International Composition Competition (Austria, 2005) for Jeux de Miroirs and 2nd prize (shared) in the First Uuno Klami International Composition Competition (Finland, 2004) for A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia. In Japan, after the success of Con Brio, Barnaby was commissioned to write a further work for the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Inventions (2007). In the UK, Barnaby was selected for the Sound and Music Shortlist (formerly Society for Promotion of New Music (also known as SPNM)), in 1999 and He was also a finalist in the University of Aberdeen Music Prize in 2007 with Bagatelle for String Quartet, and has been shortlisted for other awards. Sahar G. Christopher Born August 7, 1966, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. Christopher Sahar s love of music began when he took his first piano lessons at 7. Although he composed on his own since a child, it was not until his late 30 s he began serious study of music composition, due to a fortuitous meeting between one of Mr. Sahar s good friends, a choir director, and an opera composer, Kristin Hevner, at the department store counter where his friend was earning extra income. Upon the choir director s recommendation, Mr. Sahar commenced composition studies with Ms. Hevner. Later, Mr. Sahar continued his composition studies with Conrad Cummings at Juilliard s Evening Division. Mr. Sahar received and completed his first commission for a New York City performance in April 2008, when his solo organ work Volcano was performed. In 2011, Mr. Sahar s one-act opera Crossing the Straits was performed in New York City by the Metropolis Opera Project, a young opera company committed to promoting and performing new musical dramas by Broadway and classical composers. Mr. Sahar resides in Astoria, NY, home to one of the largest Greek communities in the U.S. He has studied abroad in Sweden and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize, Central America.

13 Sideris Nikolas Nikolas Sideris was born in Athens, Greece in He has been studying music since the age of 5, and holds a PhD in Composition from Royal Holloway, University of London, under the joined supervision of Brian Lock and Phillip Cashian. He received his Masters in Composition from the same university in 2005 with distinction and he also has a diploma in Piano with honors, and degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue. His studies in the UK were funded by the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY). Nikolas, as a pianist has performed in concerts all over Greece, in cities such as Athens, Ag. Paraskevi, Holargos, and Ioannina, and has also appeared in Damascus, Syria. His works have been performed in the UK, USA, Germany and Greece and range from small works for solo instruments, to large works for string orchestras. His work for string orchestra Exeliksis won the first prize in the Royal Holloway Composition Competition in 2005 and was performed live the next year in Egham, UK. He's received commissions by orchestras and soloists from around the world and his work The City Under Different Eyes for Solo Piano and Audio Manipulation was featured in an adaptive audio playback software system. He is also active in the computer games industry, as a composer and sound designer and recently the game that he scored, Privates by Size Five Games won a BAFTA for best Educational - Secondary Game. He co-owns North by Sound, an Audio Production company based in Norway and Greece. He is currently living in Greece where he works as a composer and teacher of piano and composition. Woodruff A. Jason Born 5 May 1980 in Bloomington, IN., USA. Jason began studying music at the age of 9, taking up instruction in piano, trumpet, and then eventually viola. As a violist, Jason has been first chair of his middle school, high school, and collegiate orchestras. He has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis and the Great Lake Music Camp advanced orchestra. He began studying music composition at the age of 10. He has studied counterpoint and

14 composition with Christopher Rutkowski at the University of Indianapolis and with Kyong Mee Choi and Stacy Garrop at Roosevelt's Chicago College of Performint Arts. In 2011, he received a scholarship and invite to study in Chicago. As an emerging composer, Jason has received several performance in Indianapolis, Chicago, and elsewhere. His work has been read by Chicago's Gaudete Brass and Eighth Blackbird flautist Timothy Munro. He considers intimacy in music an important facet. Interwoven in his music is his interest in archeology, science, mathematics, philosophy, mortality, natural observation, spirituality, and ancient musical systems. His most recent performance in December of 2011 was of his work, Silence (for mezzo-soprano, horn, oboe, and violoncello). The work explored an individuals grappling with mortality through the various developmental stages of life. The work has been described as being hauntingly beautiful and somber.

15 IV General Information

16 General Information It is said that contemporary concert hall music is sometimes difficult to approach and remains inaccessible in some ways, not only limited to pricing and the commercial sense. Editions Musica Ferrum addresses those issues by funding interesting composers and publishing fascinating and accessible works; works that are beautiful, handsome scores that are worth owning, (with approachable prices) and materials that are readily available online or in music stores. Founded in Greece by award winning composer and performer Nikolas Sideris, EMF has a deep understanding of the needs and rights of the composer as well as the demands of performers in terms of score quality and clarity. Drawing on decades of experience in score development and preparation, all the elements of production, from physical elements such as paper selection and binding to visual elements such as layout and spacing, have been taken into account to be sure that every score that reaches our customers is of the highest order. Previews of each score are available on our website, and where available excerpts of recordings are also available, along with videos of the whole scores of selected works. Editions Musica Ferrum hopes to reach out to every performer, teacher, student, conductor, producer, composer and other music lover to help them to discover this treasury of new concert hall works.we are open to any questions, comments, or feedback you may have, and we strive to be always available to our customers and interested parties. 20 Kranias Str. - Gerakas Greece