Name: Triptych for Three - The Music Realm
SKU: RMD1655
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Composer: Kakarigi, Frano

Instrumentation: 3 Double Basses

Publisher: Recital Music

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Born in 1959 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, his primary instrument is the Double bass. Kakarigi is a performer, educator, and composer. Kakarigi has performed extensively across Europe, appearing at prestigious festivals such as Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Granada and Alicante festivals in Spain, Contemporánea de Tenerife and Schubertiada de Vilabertran. He has collaborated with many renowned artists including the cellist Valter Despalj, pianist Ilan Rogoff, the clarinetist José Luis Estellés, The Arbós Trio and the conductor Josep Pons. In his soloist schievements he is known for championing double bass as a solo instrument and he’s premiered several major works including Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra by S. Sankey (world premiere with Sankey conducting), Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota (Spanish premiere), the Concerto for Double Bass by Hans Werner Henze (Spanish premiere) and Carmen Fantasy by S. Sankey (Spanish premiere). He has had much compositional work written for him & dedications to him. Several composers have written works specifically for him, including Pedro Guajardo, José López Montes, Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, Sadie Harrison, Mateo Soto and Xavier Pagès. His own compositions and those dedicated to him are featured on the album Confluencias released by Geometría del Desconcierto (Granada). As a teacher he has made enormous contributions – Taught double bass and chamber music at conservatories in Murcia and Granada – Led masterclasses at: International Course “Manuel de Falla” (Granada) International University of Baeza (Jaén) Bass Fest (Reading, UK) Ludwig Streicher Festival (Santiago de Compostela) Barcelona Bass Meeting. And in what time he has had remainign from all this activitiy he has had many Orchestral Positions including, but not limited to: Principal double bassist at the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (1981–1987), City of Granada Orchestra (since 1991), Gran Teatre del Liceu Orchestra, Barcelona (since 2014), and as a guest soloist with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra

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Triptych for Three is a colourful and invention three-movement work for the adventurous intermediate bass trio. Each movement inhabits its own …vibrant and animated sound world, utilising the entire range of the double bass in music which challenges and confronts different moods and emotions. There are solo opportunities for each bassist in music which is lively and animated and with a strong and confident message to convey. The edition includes a score and three parts. “When I was asked to write a piece in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Recital Music, almost immediately came to me an idea to write something inspired by a great Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas, more precisely, by his famous “Quattro Pezzi” for double bass and piano. The present double bass trio could be understood as my homage to Quattro Pezzi, sort of a vision for double bass trio through the virtuosic and humorous spirit of that remarkable composer. All this as a gift to Recital Music and its alma mater David Heyes, celebrating the anniversary and the incredible contribution to printed music for double bass of the highest quality.” [Frano Kakarigi, May 2025] Frano Kakarigi was born in Dubrovnik (Croatia) in 1959, graduated from the University of Zagreb Conservatory of Music and continued his studies at École Nórmale de Musique in Paris and the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor. His principal teachers were Josip Novosel and Stuart Sankey. As an orchestral musician Frano has been Principal Bass in Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Flint Symphony Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona and the City Orchestra of Granada, where he held this post from 1991 until the retirement in 2024. As a soloist he has played on numerous occasions in duo with piano and also accompanied by orchestra. Self-taught as a composer, he began to compose in 2000 and since then has written more than 40 works mainly for the double bass, but also chamber music, opera, music for ballet, incidental music, choral and vocal music. Since 1999 he has both Croatian and Spanish citizenship.

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