NEXT CONCERT PERFORMANCES:
2023 is an anniversary year of two composers whose works are very important part of my creative activities: František Hertl (50 years death anniversary) and Johannes Brahms (190 years since this giant in music history was born). Tribute to the work of super famous Brahms and less famous, but wonderful Czech composer Hertl will be given this year with three recitals for double bass and piano in total. Following two recitals are still to happen:
SAT 23 September 2023
PRAGUE (CZ), Concert Hall Bohuslav Martinů of the HAMU Praha
Brahms-recital (second half of the concert, ca 50 minutes) with Maria Sofianska (piano)
Programme: Scherzo (1853), Intermezzo in E flat major op.117 N°1, Sonata in F major op.99
Tickets: free entrance
SUN October 22, 2023 - concert beginning time: 11:30
PRAGUE (CZ), Concert Hall Bohuslav Martinů of the HAMU Praha
Hertl-recital with Annalisa Orlando (piano)
Programme: 30 Miniatures for Double Bass and Piano
Link with online tickets: TBA (there will be enough tickets, you can already make your travel plans for a weekend in Prague. While visiting the concert should be no problem, keep in mind that October is still quite popular time for visiting Prague, it is recommended to book the hotel on time)
HISTORY:
APRIL 2023
FREIBURG (D), Chamber Music Hall of the Musikhochschule
Recital dedicated to František Hertl performed with Annalisa Orlando (piano). A video with a less known work by Hertl "Four Compositions" for double bass and piano has been meanwhile released on YouTube (premiere video release of the entire work on YouTube):
JULY 2022
LJUBLJANA (SLO), Križanke Church
Recital shared with Latica Honda Rosenberg. A video with first movement of the seldom performed first version of Piano Trio in B major opus 8 by Johannes Brahms (composed 1853) with Latica Honda Rosenberg (violin) and Annalisa Orlando (piano) has been meanwhile released on YouTube:
AUGUST 2020
LJUBLJANA (SLO) - KNIGHT'S HALL
Recital at the Ljubljana Festival with Hansjacob Staemmler (piano). Programme: A. Pärt: Mirror in the Mirror / J. Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in E minor / L. van Beethoven: Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 5 N°2 / M. Bonis: Sonata F major, Op. 67
Ljubljana Festival has broadcasted this concert as a livestream. Video recording can be watched HERE (Facebook page by the Festival Ljubljana)
JANUARY 2020
MANCHESTER (UK) - RNCM Concert Hall
The most challenging and most exciting solo project of the concert season 2019/2020 with live performance of Vivaldi's Concerto in E minor RV409 has taken place short before outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. The concert was recorded and it is uploaded on YouTube:
MAY 2019
MUSIKHOCHSCHULE FREIBURG (D) - "CONCOURS DE PARIS" 1895-2006
Kammermusiksaal, 19:30
Programme: original pieces for double bass & piano written mainly throughout the 20th century for the competition "Concours du Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris" (1895-2006), read here more about the competition (please take with humor the "English version" on this external site and use a translator instead)
Compositions for double bass & piano by: Eugène Bigot, Henri Büsser, Jacques Castérède, Charles Chaynes, Alfred Desenclos, André Dulaurens, Serge Lancen, Alain Margoni, Marcel Mirouze and Victor Serventi, as well as nearly unknown, fantastic sonata for cello and piano by Mel Bonis performed by Božo Paradžik and Hansjacob Staemmler
READ HERE MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS, ABOUT THE COMPETITION AND ABOUT THE PIECES (only in German)
The concert was recorded and it is uploaded on YouTube:
Most of my double bass students from Freiburg have been performing at least one piece in this concert. All the pieces are composed for the competition of the graduating students of the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris. Common to these works is that they are skillfully composed for the piano and that they are mostly multipartite: they all have a slow part, a fast part and a short cadenza. Some of these compositions contain three parts plus a cadenza. Stylistically, the works are very different, you will find pretty much everything between the purely romantic sounds, then typical impressionist harmonies and whole-tone scales until a bit more "modern" forms and harmonies for that time (albeit still quite conservative from our point of view today) where some pieces experiment with slightly abstract harmonies, jazz and swing elements, half-improvisation, etc. The works also differ very strongly in character, the audience will be able to enjoy pretty much the whole pallet from humorous to profound.
Many of Božo Paradžik's earlier projects and performances have been recorded and can be watched any time on Božo Paradžik's YouTube channel