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July 5, 2016 by Tsoof Baras Leave a Comment

Eight On 3 And Nine On 2 – Graduating Recital 2015

Tsoof and Jamee perform Eight on 3 and Nine on 2

Eight on 3 and Nine on 2 by George Clements and Robert Marino is a multi percussion duet. The piece combines drum corps elements into a challenging formal recital piece for any percussionist. Two players perform the piece facing each other, sharing instruments just as they share in playing almost every rhythm in the piece. The listener is engaged aurally and visually as both performers sound like one in an exciting and captivating percussive showcase.

I've wanted to play this piece for so

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Filed Under: Percussion, Performance Tagged With: drumming, multi percussion, music

June 20, 2016 by Tsoof Baras Leave a Comment

XY – Multi Percussion Piece – Graduating Recital 2015

Tsoof playing multi percussion solo XY by Michael Gordon

The multi percussion piece to rule them all! XY was the challenge of a lifetime and sort of like a movie where the character has to endure through a hard task to find that afterwards everything makes sense. Only in a movie it takes a montage and in real life it takes a lot of time!

XY is a multi percussion composition by Michael Gordon for 5 drums which focuses on the phasing in volume between your left and right hands. A simple idea, though this is done while playing polyrhythms

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May 11, 2016 by Tsoof Baras Leave a Comment

Spankinhide African Drumming – Semester 1 Recital 2015

Elliott Orr, Piers Langford and Tsoof Baras

The debut of Spankinhide in my time at the Conservatorium! I decided to bring Elliott and Piers, my bandmates from Spankinhide, to play some African drumming in my recital and share a part of my musical background. The great thing about being in my final year at uni was being able to choose what I wanted to play and to play some unconventional things.

It was an out of the ordinary experience as well, because I’d never led any pieces in Spankinhide. I was always playing accompaniment parts

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April 4, 2016 by Tsoof Baras Leave a Comment

‘Marimbics’ Marimba Solo – Semester 1 Recital 2015

Tsoof Performing Marimbics by Markus Halt

MARIMBICS by Markus Halt is a four-mallet marimba solo that I have interpreted as the ‘Marimba Olympics’. Each section of the piece challenges the performer to play with different technique and cope with changing ‘tonal worlds’. It is a trip down the rabbit hole involving high technical demand and quirky musical ideas.

This was definitely one of the most challenging marimba solos I had played up until this point in uni, in my recital and just in general. The process of choosing

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March 24, 2016 by Tsoof Baras Leave a Comment

Suomineito – Vibraphone solo – Semester 1 Recital 2015

Tsoof playing vibraphone

Suomineito is a four-mallet vibraphone solo written by Nebojša Jovan Živković. Suomineito in Finnish, in the language of the "Suomi" people (as the Finns calls themselves) means "Finnish girl". This quiet and melancholic composition was inspired by an original folk song from Finland, called "Heili Karjalasta". In Suomi, this means "a friend from Karelia", a region that used to be a part of Finland.

This is a heart wrenching piece and I loved playing it because of the music and the challenge.

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Filed Under: Percussion, Performance Tagged With: mallet percussion, music, Semester 1 Recital 2015, vibraphone, video

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