The piece "Mix Five (a) for solo clarinet" (2006) by Dennis Kam systematically mixes five distinct musical ideas with lengths governed by the Fibonacci number series.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Dennis Kam's "Lokahi" ('unity'), composed in 2003, is a musical homage to his Hawaiian roots, consciously trying to represent qualities associated with Hawaiian music and culture, like simplicity, beauty, and gracefulness.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Dennis Kam's "Ontologies: Pre-Socratic Etudes" (1979) aims to create musical analogues to philosophical notions of significant philosophers, such as Heraclitus (change), Democritus (atoms), and Parmenides (permanence).
Composer's Artistic Vision
A recent interest of composer Dennis Kam has been creating works that can be performed separately or together with a 'companion' work, such as the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2004) which adds a clarinet part to a solo piano sonata.
Composer Biography
Dennis Kam, the composer, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1942 and is currently Music Director/Conductor of the Old Cutler Community Orchestra and Composer-in-Residence/Conductor for the South Florida Youth Symphony.
Performer Biography
Ross Harbaugh, Professor of Cello at the University of Miami and cellist of the Bergonzi String Quartet, has appeared on recordings with pop artists Michael Jackson and Busta Rhymes.
Performer Biography
Dimitri Ashkenazy, a clarinetist born in New York in 1969, grew up in Iceland and Switzerland, holds an Icelandic passport, and officially renounced his U.S. birthright in 2012.
