Andrew Kohn
Komitas Suite: Five Songs for double bass and piano (arr. Andrew Kohn)
Komitas Suite: Five Songs for double bass and piano (arr. Andrew Kohn)
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About the Arrangement
Komitas Suite is a collection of five Armenian folk songs arranged by Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Komitas. This special work showcases the full range of human emotion, from melancholic longing to unbridled joy. "Chinar es" is a tender love song that pleads "Don't forget me, even though you are far away," while "Kak'eri erg" (The Partridge Song) imitates the mountain-dwelling partridge with lively arpeggios that depict the bird's cheerful character. This arrangement is expertly adapted by Andrew Kohn for double bass and piano.
This purchase includes a bass part and piano accompaniment in orchestral and solo tuning.
About the Composer
Komitas (1869-1935) was an Armenian monk and musician, considered to be the founder of the Armenian national school of music. It is easy to hear, in his arrangements of the haunting folksongs of Armenia, the bedrock of later Armenian composers such as Khachaturian. His spirit crushed by the Armenian genocide of 1915-17, he spent his last sixteen years in a mental asylum in Paris.
About the Arranger
Andrew Kohn teaches string bass, music theory, and Music in World Cultures at West Virginia University. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and received the only AD in double bass awarded by the Peabody Conservatory. His principal teachers included Eric Moe, Pablo Ortiz, Eugene Levinson, Eldon Obrecht, and Barry Green.
The former principal bassist of the National Chamber Orchestra and Harrisburg Symphonies, he is a member of the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestras and an active soloist. His publications have appeared in the book On the Music of Stefan Wolpe (ed. Austin Clarkson) and the journals American String Teacher, Bass World, Double Reed, Fulcrum, Musica Hodie, Muzyka, and Perspectives of New Music; he has read papers at Wolpe Symposia and AMS and SEM conferences and has performed, lectured and adjudicated at international bass conventions.
He has recorded and edited for Music Minus One. His compositions have been broadcast nationally.



