Andrew Beall
TESTAMENT: Symphony for Marimba and Orchestra
© 2004 Bachovich Music Publications (634479087950)
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Contemporary Classical Orchestral piece: Solo Marimba with full Symphony Orchestra, live recording, premiered in New York City. First Marimba Symphony ever to be written or performed.
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On April 24, 2004, in New York City, composer/percussionist Andrew Beall performed the world premiere of his Testament: Symphony for Marimba and Orchestra with the Tower Philharmonic. An hour long, four-movement work, this piece marks as the first marimba symphony in history ever to be composed or performed. Since the premiere, he has reduced the opus to a shorter, three-movement Concerto, and has performed it with the New York University Symphony Orchestra.
As a freelance percussionist, Mr. Beall has performed on Broadway with The Lion King, as well as at Carnegie Hall with the Manhattan Pops Orchestra and the New England Symphonic Ensemble. He has performed in various other productions such as Little Shop of Horrors, Man in the Iron Mask, Starmites, and the world premieres of the off-Broadway musical Ophelia and Scott Eyerly’s opera, The House of Seven Gables. Mr. Beall has appeared as a soloist around the world, including 8 solo recitals and 4 concerto performances. He has won both the 2001 D.C.I. Solo Marimba Competition and the 2001 P.A.S.I.C. College Individual Marimba Competition, placed 1st in concerto competitions at The Ohio State University and New York University, and 2nd at the 2005 MTNA National Young Artist Performer’s Competition. Mr. Beall spent a year as a cast member and snare drum soloist in the Australian stage spectacular, Rhythm of the Night. He has performed with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Percussion Ensemble, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Garden State Philharmonic, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Harmonie Symphony Orchestra, Gotham City Orchestra, and served as Principal Timpanist at the Conductor’s Institute at Bard. Currently, he tours with the chamber group, Cordis.
As a composer, Mr. Beall’s works have been performed at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Mannes College of Music, New York University, The College of New Jersey, Music Academy of the West, and the Aspen Music Festival. As a guest artist, he has presented concerts and workshops across the country, and as a clinician he was featured at the 2005 P.A.S. Ohio Day of Percussion. Mr. Beall received his B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with James Preiss, Duncan Patton, Christopher Lamb, and Steve Schick and his M.A. from New York University with Jonathan Haas. As the winner of the Charles Owen Memorial Scholarship and Aspen Fellowship, he is spending the summer of ’06 in Aspen, Colorado at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Beall is also the founder/owner of Bachovich Music Publications. For more information, please visit www.andrewbeall.com
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Truly a musical experience that is an extension to the soul.
author: Clemencia CalderoneThis music will someday be recognized as a historical footprint in the symphonic genre. It is not only significant as the first marimba symphony ever written, but also musically, in its overwhelming power and beauty. I feel that what the composer set out to achieve he accomplished. I was moved in all areas of my heart in the sense that the music made its impression on my memory and my humanity from the anger and darkness of the first and last movements to the soaring blissful melodies of the second movement to the aching eastern groove of the third. What more could a composer ask for!?! I love this piece... it is truly a piece for all people with the ability to be perceived an understood with the ear and most of all, the heart. Bravo!!!! Encore Andrew Beall!!!