otar Gordeli - Flute Concerto in D

Transcribed for Flute and Wind Ensemble by

Kenneth Singleton

Otar Mikhailovich Gordeli was bom on November 18, 1928 in Tbilisi, the capital
of Georgia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. He studied at the Tbilisi
Music School and the Tbilisi Conservatory, and in 1954 he completed the post-
graduate course at the Moscow Conservatory. He joined the faculty of the Tbilisi
Conservatory in 1959. Along with the Flute Concerto in D, he has composed a
cantata The Seasons, a symphony and other orchestral works, a piano concerto, a
piano quintet, pieces for piano and violin, songs on texts by Georgian poets, stage
and cinema works, and jazz pieces. s „^

The flute concerto, composed in 1958 and published in 1960, is cast in a single
sonata-form movement. The style seems reminiscent of the best known Georgian
composer, Aram Khachaturian, with some of George Gershwin's melodic turns
and harmonies added to the mix. An edited copy of the solo flute part (with
numerous ossia passages) along with a piano reduction, is published by Progress
Press in Evanston, Illinois.

The present wind transcription was made in June, 1998, and first performed by
flutist Elizabeth Singleton at the University of Northern Colorado's Garden
Theater on July 14 of that year, with the transcriber conducting the University's
Summer Symphonic Band.

The transcription adheres closely to the original orchestral scoring - indeed,

many of the parts are almost identical. It is strongly recommended that
performances adhere to the one-player-per-part concept (with two players on
each B-flat clarinet part), so that the flute may be heard without amplification.
 Concerto for Flute otar Gordeli
Transcribed by Kenneth Singleton

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