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Tania Gabrielle Composer
Tania Gabrielle has enjoyed performances and radio broadcasts of her music on at least four continents to date featuring some of today's finest artists. Critical acclaim for her works has been as consistently enthusiastic as audience response. Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has written, "Tania is a creator who melds clarity of design with emotional depth. Her writing is as concise as it is compelling." And from the Los Angeles Times, "One senses the composer's technical mastery—the piece abounds in unlabored counterpoint and imaginative, unforced sonorities—and her ability to say what she means and stop. Her music is at once accessible, engaging and smart."
Among the artists who have featured Ms. Gabrielle's music are the Artis Quartet Vienna, the New Hollywood, Da Vinci and Grammy-Award-winning Angeles String Quartets; cellists Bion Tsang, Jeffrey Solow, Ronald Leonard and Alexander Baillie; the Altenberg Trio Vienna; Tchaikovsky prize-winning pianist Stephen Prutsman; oboists Allan Vogel and Helen Jahren; principal players from the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; and the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Her music was used extensively in the award-winning independent film "Glass".
For the 2006/07 season Tania was commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music to compose her third string quartet. After performing the world premiere in Tuscon, the Artist Quartet Vienna will perform "Luminescence" on tour including the Library of Congress and the Musikverein in Vienna in March, 2007. The Washington Post writes, "Few modern composers try to depict happiness in their music, perhaps because their often stringent materials suit darker topics better. But Alexandria-born Tania Gabrielle found an intriguing vocabulary to evoke various flavors of happiness in her String Quartet No. 3, which received its East Coast premiere from the Artis-Quartett Wien on Wednesday night in the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium. Gabrielle subtitled the quartet "Luminescence," and her harmonies indeed glow brightly throughout."
Tania recently received the first performance and radio broadcast of her music in Sweden at the Bastad Music Festival by the renowned Altenberg Trio Vienna with Swedish oboist Helen Jahren. New commissions include a revised version of To the Nightingale for tenor Jonathan Mack, Alice Meets the Queen for the New York Chamber Soloists, Bouquet for viola and organ premiered in the Saarbrücken Basilika, Germany and the "Orgelfest" in Graz, Austria, and Rhapsody based on themes from the film "Vertigo" premiered by the New Hollywood String Quartet at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. A new clarinet concerto is also in the works.
Gabrielle's String Quartet No. 2 "Communications", which was praised by the Los Angeles Times for its "Haydnesque variety in a vivid contemporary language", was taken on tour in Europe and North America by the prestigious Artis Quartet, who gave the European premiere at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria on December 5, 2002. In 2002 Tania was awarded top honors at the Oregon Bach Festival's "Waging Peace through Singing" for her work In Paradisum for mixed chorus and strings, a commission from the San Francisco Solano Church.
Tania Gabrielle's critically acclaimed Four Illuminations for oboe and piano trio, commissioned by Allan Vogel, principal oboe of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, received its New York premiere by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and is included on a CD for Centaur Records (CRC 2395) with four other chamber works, recorded by members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Piano Trio. Townhall Records has released a CD by the Haslop/Sanders Duo, featuring both her Harbors of Light and Three Landscapes for violin and guitar. The Guitar Foundation of America's Soundboard Magazine writes that these are "two substantial and engaging sets of pieces: haunting, evocative, strongly romantic with an impressionistic flavor."
Ms. Gabrielle graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College where she studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Lewis Spratlan. She continued her studies with another Pulitzer Prize-winner, Bernard Rands, at the Aspen Music Festival's Center for Compositional Studies, as well as with Oliver Knussen at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in England. Additional commissions have come from Chamber Music Palisades, the XXI International Viola Congress, the Guitar Foundation of America Festival, the Interlochen Arts Academy Choir, the "Music in Deerfield" series in Massachusetts, the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, the Corona del Mar Baroque Festival, Pacific Serenades (two commissions), the Union Theological Seminary Choir (New York), British cellist Alexander Baillie, the Smith College Glee Club, Bard College and noted arts patron Frank Taplin (former President of the Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center)
Selected Reviews
From The Los Angeles Times:
"One senses the composer's technical mastery — the piece abounds in unlabored counterpoint and imaginative, unforced sonorities — and her ability to say what she means and stop. She favors granitic textures and exhilarating rhythms. Yet, for all the familiarity of the style, the themes are refreshing, the effect convincing and the result immediately accessible."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer:
"Tania Gabrielle is a creator who melds clarity of design with emotional depth. Her writing is as concise as it is compelling. Gabrielle is well-versed in string techniques, which she always uses to superb dramatic effect. There is no fat or ambiguity. She takes the strings through a poetic and suspenseful odyssey that bears a distinctive stamp."
From the Orange County Register:
"She believes music should be clear and communicative on first hearing. She feels music can put humans in touch with a notion of beauty and that it can be a path to understanding an inherent balance in the universe. Gabrielle not only pursues these ideas but succeeds at making them tangible and persuasive, which is a goal of any art form."
The American Record Guide writes:
"Tania Gabrielle's music is urbane and sophisticated. Neo-classical in style, with attractive melodies, forward-moving rhythms, and idiomatic instrumental writing, Gabrielle occupies a space where balance is everything. While her music is always expressive, it is never overwrought; the emotions are not on the sleeve. Each instrument is given its chance to shine in the constantly shifting textures."
From the The Los Angeles Times:
"Gabrielle makes abundant use of rhythmic repetition and ostinato figures to convey insistent, even frenetic energy, or to set up hypnotic figures over which mournful melodies can soar. She favors granitic textures and exhilarating rhythms. Yet, for all the familiarity of the style, the themes are refreshing, the effect convincing and the result immediately accessible."
To learn more about Tania's classical music please visit her website
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