Carl Boye Hansen, the tuba soloist, has been with the Odense Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and plays a Hirsbrunner York C tuba and a B&S JBL Classics F tuba on this recording.
Performer Biography
Morten Østergaard, the bassoon soloist, has been solo bassoonist in the Odense Symphony Orchestra since 1998 and won First Prize in an international bassoon quartet competition in Berlin in 1996.
Composer Biography
Andy Pape, the composer, was born in Hollywood but moved to Denmark at age fifteen and has been active there ever since.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Andy Pape's music radiates an elementary joy of creation, characterized by vitality, charisma, and an appetite for life.
Composition History
The tuba concerto Suburban Nightmares uses the concept of 'suburb' to symbolize man's attempt to find security, and 'nightmare' to represent the fear of losing that security.
Compositional Technique
In Traces of Time Lost, the bassoon is the starting point for time, with the orchestra acting as an 'echo valley' where echoes become slower, higher, and sometimes transposed.
Composition History
The piece An Amerikaner in Danmark is a tribute to George Gershwin, featuring quotations from his standards, popular Danish songs, and other composers' music.
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