Cat No.JM47975 Price
£95.00 Composer: Oystein Baadsvik Category: SOLOS - Tuba in BC
The piece "Fnugg" is very unique piece for solo tuba. It’s originally an improvisation with elements from the Australian Aboriginal instrument didgeridoo and Norwegian folk music. The techniques in use are multiphonics (to sing and play simultaneously) and Baadsvik’s own invention “Lip Beat” (percussive tuba), Fnugg is a Norwegian word describing something very small and weightless. Like a snowflake.
This is the version with BRASS BAND ACCOMPANIMENT. Brass Band & Wind Band versions are also available.
øystein Baadsvik’s international career began with two prizes at the prestigious Concours International d’Exécution Musicale (CIEM) in Geneva in 1991. Shortly after that his first solo CD was released. It received excellent reviews in international music magazines. His next CD, Tuba Carnival became a tremendous success and was recommended by ClassicToday as one of the six best CD’s in the world for solo instrument and orchestra released late 2003. He is in great demand as a soloist and lecturer all over the world and works constantly to expand the musical aspects of the tuba and, as well as performing solo repertoire for tuba and orchestra, he collaborates with jazz, rock and pop musicians. In all these genres, his desire to communicate with his audience has always been his guiding principle. In consequence, he has also developed new playing techniques that have been used in a number of more recent works for the instrument.
Øysten Baadsvk øystein Baadsvik started playing the tuba at the age of fifteen. He soon decided to explore the tuba’s possibilities as a solo instrument, and at the age of eighteen won 1st prize in a Norwegian national competition for soloists. Within the space of two years he had made his own programs for Norwegian Radio and had been a soloist with most of Norway’s professional symphony orchestras. øystein Baadsvik studied under Michael Lind, John Fletcher, Arnold Jacobs and Harvey Phillips.
Fnugg is recorded by Baadsvik on BIS CD 1285, Tuba Carnival. A version for tuba and brass band is available Performed on a live DVD
