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http://davidsartor.com
Composer David P. Sartor has been honored with prestigious awards
which include the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald
Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts
Award, a New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, and fifteen
consecutive ASCAP awards. The recipient of multiple commissions from
a variety of ensembles, his works have been performed by noted artists such
as the Minneapolis Vocal Consort, bassist John Deak, soprano Cheryl Studer,
organist Peter Fyfe, and the "President's Own" United States Marine Corps Concert Band in
Washington, D.C. In late 2000, he received a commission from Kirk Trevor and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
to compose a work in celebration of the new millennium which opened
the KSO's October 19th and 20th subscription concerts to critical acclaim. Other compositions by Sartor
have been featured nationally and internationally at the Tanglewood Music
Festival, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, the International Double Bass
Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, The World's
Largest Organ Concert, and Carnegie Hall, with broadcast performances on
Public Radio International, National Public Radio, and local affiliates. He has
been named to Who's Who in American Music, The International Who's Who
in Music, and 2000 Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century.
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These and many more works are available for listening, perusal and sheet music purchase at
the composer's website,
davidsartor.com.
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| Cat's Eye is a brief and virtuostic jewel for brass, and an ideal opener for any brass choir or band concert. The striking fortissimo opening fanfare rapidly gives way to an Allegro festivo, featuring a engaging rhythmic figure that permeates the work. Although the figure stands on its own, it also serves as backdrop for the primary theme in the exposition and for both the primary and secondary themes in the recapitulation. The return of the opening fanfare leads to a Vivo coda that concludes the work in a brilliant fashion that's sure to please audiences.
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| When the composer was 7 years of age, his maternal grandmother presented him with a bagatelle game called Wing Shot. The object of the pinball-like game was to launch small marbles using a spring-loaded plunger, causing them to land in semicircular cups with associated point values. Across the bottom of the game was inscribed the phrase "Black Ball Counts Double." The title and concept of this single-movement work for string quartet were suggested by the pleasant memories of the perpetually flying marbles and the almost mystical significance of the single black ball.
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| Concerto for Orchestra offers an emotional and colorful journey which springs from a motto found in the opening five measures of the work. The motto is introduced by unison flutes and passed to bassoons; the consequent phrase presented by violins in octaves serves to establish the tonal centers of G and Db as cornerstones of the composition. Thus is presented all the raw material necessary for the far-ranging exploration that is to come. | |
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