:Brad Baumgardner

06 Four Systems This realization of Earle Brown’s graphical score “Four Systems” features members of the Digital Honkbox Revival on Bass Clarinet, Cello, Percussion, and Electronics.

Fractal Excursions was written for me by my good fried Pei Ying Yuan as a part of a commission she received from the electronic music group KCEMA.  We’ve done it a few times here in KC and at a festival in Iowa.  Its a lot of fun to play and is written in a way [...]

This concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra was written as my master’s thesis.  It won the UMKC concerto/aria composition contest and was performed in the Spring of 2010 by the composer and the UMKC student orchestra. Click here to hear a recording of the first movement. Adrift in Endless Realities (I. Awake, Shake Dreams From [...]

02 Malleable Rigids MP3 (click to hear recording) One day in passing I said to my friend Aaron Stepp “Man, one day you should write something for me …”  The next day he handed me Malleable Rigids.  Over the past few years I’ve played this piece quite a bit.

flirts-and-whispers (click to hear recording) Nick Drake wrote this piece for me in the Fall of 2006.  We collaborated on a couple of versions of this and I really like Nick’s finished product.

07 Echolalia (click to hear recording) This piece was written for me by Adam Hardin and was premiered at U of L in 2006. The piece makes use of solo bass clarinet with live sound manipulation by Max MSP.  I have since played it with Adam at the Electronic Music Midwest 2007 and SPARK 2008 [...]

05 Happenstance MP3 (click to hear recording) This piece was written for the (De)Constructions commissioning project by my close friend Shaun David Crowdus.  It explores extremes of register and dynamic.

06 Fanfare in Cyanide MP3 (click to hear recording) This piece was written for me by my good friend Carrie Page as a part of the (De)Constructions commissioning and concert project in the Fall of 2007.  It has a very wild energy that makes it a lot of fun to play.  For information on the [...]

04 Deconstructions MP3 (click to hear recording of the premiere) thingNY at LPAC 11-07-09 – Baumgardner – (De)Constructions (click to hear thingNY’s take on the piece) (De)Constructions 2007 Brad Baumgardner Bass Clarinet, Augmented Bass Clarinet, Homemade Percussion I premiered this piece in the Fall of 2007 with my friend Brad Buehring who is a very [...]

03 Etudes for Conversational Bass Clarinet MP3 (click to hear recording) solo Bass Clarinet 2007 premiered by the composer at U of L 2007