Baadsvik / Benavidez / Lima -Storytellers

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1.1 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Chaconne

1.2 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Canticle

1.3 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Chaconne

1.4 Songs of a Wayfarer~When My Beloved Has Her Wedding Day

1.5 Songs of a Wayfarer~This Morning I Went Over the Field

1.6 Songs of a Wayfarer~I Have a Red-Hot Knife

1.7 Songs of a Wayfarer~The Two Blue Eyes of My Beloved

1.8 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Introspective

1.9 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Mysterious, slow and expressive

1.10 Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Fast and aggressive

1.11 New Kid

1.12 Prelude from Suite Bergamasque

1.13 Goodnight Moon

1.14 Cityscape for Solo Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Uptown

1.15 Cityscape for Solo Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Midtown

1.16 Cityscape for Solo Tuba and Wind Ensemble~Downtown

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Tuba virtuoso Justin Benavidez is heard in three new tuba concertos, two recent solos, and stunning transcriptions of works by Gustav Mahler and Claude Debussy. Benavidez is currently Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Florida State University and performs as principal tuba of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. In the summer he is on the faculty at the Round Top Music Festival in Texas. With his playing noted for it's "tremendous virtuosity and stylistic versatility," Benavidez has performed in venues throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has been featured numerous times on APM's Performance Today radio program. His debut solo album, Emblems, won Silver Medals in the Classical Album and Instrumental Solo Album categories of the Global Music Awards. The International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal described it as "an impressive and highly entertaining record" on which Benavidez "shreds with enthusiasm, exuberance, and precision."

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