Sofiane Messabih

Pdf Version
Collection Divertimento
Le Samouraï noir
Alto Saxophone and woodwinds orchestraDuration 6’15
First performance on March 26, 2022, Paris, by Musique de la Garde Républicaine
under the direction of Captain Frédéric FOULQUIER.

grade 6

This work is the winner of the 2022 A.Sax Composition Competition in the category grade 6.
Le samouraï noir (the black samourai) is in the program of the second National Competition of Interpretation for Young Saxophonists of the A.Sax 2022 in the category grade 6.
and in the program of the International Adolphe Sax Competition l'Haÿ-les-Roses 2022.
The Black Samurai( Le Samouraï Noir) is inspired by a true story.

This composition in 3 parts represents the life of this future samurai.

In the first part, the composer evokes the beginning of the life of a black slave sold to the Chinese. This beginning is very dynamic, we enter immediately in a rhythm and a frenetic pulse, with an energetic and intense dynamic presence.
The second part describes the travel to China from Africa by boat.

The melancholy, and the deep sadness of this slave shows strong emotions.
The third part tells how a Japanese emperor buys this black slave and see in him a potential samurai.

The Black Samurai is born.


The phrase, as well as the tempo, evoke the training, the fights. All this remains an art. It is for these reasons that this part is nervous and dancing, fluid and fast like a Samurai at the top of his practice. 

             

Printed Version
Collection Divertimento
Le Samouraï noir
Alto Saxophone and woodwinds orchestraDuration 6’15
First performance on March 26, 2022, Paris, by Musique de la Garde Républicaine
under the direction of Captain Frédéric FOULQUIER.
grade 6

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This work is the winner of the 2022 A.Sax Composition Competition in the category grade 6.
Le samouraï noir (the black samourai) is in the program of the second National Competition of Interpretation for Young Saxophonists of the A.Sax 2022 in the category grade 6.
and in the program of the International Adolphe Sax Competition l'Haÿ-les-Roses 2022.
The Black Samurai( Le Samouraï Noir) is inspired by a true story.

This composition in 3 parts represents the life of this future samurai.

In the first part, the composer evokes the beginning of the life of a black slave sold to the Chinese. This beginning is very dynamic, we enter immediately in a rhythm and a frenetic pulse, with an energetic and intense dynamic presence.
The second part describes the travel to China from Africa by boat.

The melancholy, and the deep sadness of this slave shows strong emotions.
The third part tells how a Japanese emperor buys this black slave and see in him a potential samurai.

The Black Samurai is born.


The phrase, as well as the tempo, evoke the training, the fights. All this remains an art. It is for these reasons that this part is nervous and dancing, fluid and fast like a Samurai at the top of his practice. 

             

Pdf version
For four equal women's voices
Duration 15'
Henriette Bonnion, Constance Quéniaux, Johanna Hiffernan… We know them having seen them in the paintings of the master "Gustave Courbet", but what were their most private thoughts?
Through twelve short pieces written for women’s voices, a composer and an author imagine together the deepest intimacy of these muses.
These short pieces can be interpreted by a vocal quartet or by a professional or amateur ensemble of talented female vocalists. The quartet version can be spatialized in a rectangle or square: one singer per corner, and the audience in the centre. Each part is independent of the others, thus offering great freedom of choice to performers.

Printed Version
For four equal women's voices
Duration 15'
Henriette Bonnion, Constance Quéniaux, Johanna Hiffernan… We know them having seen them in the paintings of the master "Gustave Courbet", but what were their most private thoughts?
Through twelve short pieces written for women’s voices, a composer and an author imagine together the deepest intimacy of these muses.
These short pieces can be interpreted by a vocal quartet or by a professional or amateur ensemble of talented female vocalists. The quartet version can be spatialized in a rectangle or square: one singer per corner, and the audience in the centre. Each part is independent of the others, thus offering great freedom of choice to performers.


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Pdf versionToiles String trio n°1String trioDuration 20'Toiles is a piece in five movements, each title being a shade of blue evoking four periods of the painter Gustave Courbet but through the caricaturists of the time.Azur tells us about Courbet's closeness to nature, his realism, but especially the first caricatures of him as a peasant always from behind with oversized hooves.Cobalt is inspired by Daumier's caricature « Le combat des écoles » (The fight of the schools) Idealism and realism.Persian evokes the cartoons on the Assyrian beard of Gustave Courbet.Bleu nuit is the representation of both the fall of the Vendôme column but also the undeniable success of the artist.Indigo is a form of synthesis.Toiles is for a Grade 6-8

Printed version
Toiles String trio n°1
String trio
Duration 20'
Toiles is a piece in five movements, each title being a shade of blue evoking four periods of the painter Gustave Courbet but through the caricaturists of the time.
Azur tells us about Courbet's closeness to nature, his realism, but especially the first caricatures of him as a peasant always from behind with oversized hooves.
Cobalt is inspired by Daumier's caricature « Le combat des écoles » (The fight of the schools) Idealism and realism.
Persian evokes the cartoons on the Assyrian beard of Gustave Courbet.
Bleu nuit is the representation of both the fall of the Vendôme column but also the undeniable success of the artist.
Indigo is a form of synthesis.
Toiles is for a Grade 6-8

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Printed Version
For alto saxophone and piano
Duration 6'
This piece is tongue-in-cheek, a modest homage to a completely crazy guitarist, sound engineer, producer, satirist, director, cover designer, painter and genius composer : Frank Zappa.
This surreal story is off-the-wall, and even absurd because of the annotations!! It nevertheless remains sufficiently concerted and technical to end the second cycle.
There is a balance to be found between the precision and playing requirements (rhythms, nuances, change of tempo) and the fantastic side!

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Pdf Version
For Alto saxophone and Piano
Duration 6'
This piece is tongue-in-cheek, a modest homage to a completely crazy guitarist, sound engineer, producer, satirist, director, cover designer, painter and genius composer : Frank Zappa.
This surreal story is off-the-wall, and even absurd because of the annotations!! It nevertheless remains sufficiently concerted and technical to end the second cycle.
There is a balance to be found between the precision and playing requirements (rhythms, nuances, change of tempo) and the fantastic side!