Bass Clarinet & Cello "Crow Cavern" composed by Cornelius Boots - performed at Ithaca 2025

Sheet Music here:
https://corneliusboots.com/crow-caver...

Performer by Dr. Rick Faria (bass clarinet) and Heidi Hoffman (cello).
Original commission recording here:
https://tashawarrendaveeggar.bandcamp...
Music video here:
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April 2, 2025 at Ithaca College, NY
Hockett Recital Hall. Concert of a variety of Boots compositions for various solo and chamber woodwind modalities, curated and hosted by Dr. Richard Faria.

Camera work by Felicia I. Chavez


Also *the next evolution of this heavy chamber style is the Low Clarinet Quintet, premiered in early 2025:    • Super Bass Clarinet Quintet - MOTHER UNDER...  

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Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
https://edmundwelles.bandcamp.com/

Sheet music:
https://corneliusboots.com/compositio...

the single-reed conspiracy:
From 1996-2014, EDMUND WELLES was transmuting many musical styles into bass clarinet quartet form. The single-reed conspiracy has at its disposal the following devices culled from the world of heavy metal music: a thickness of tone, a density of texture, absolute rhythmic precision, and the extreme use of dynamic contrasts. The bass clarinet: a synergy of designs from all saxophones and clarinets, themselves the culmination of hundreds of years of single-reed instrument evolution. A four-and-a-half octave voice, multiplied into four equal parts and breathing together to create a dense, pulsing sound capable of expressing and reflecting the full range of human emotions.

There was no precedent for a wind-based ensemble such as this attempting to build these massive bridges between avant jazz, new music, black metal and classic rock.

Cornelius Boots short bio:
Cornelius Boots established himself as a woodwind panstylist and hardcore creative composer-performer in the 1990’s and has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. He has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his compositions and teaches his full-blooded, signature style to the curious and dedicated around the world. He is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and has received multiple awards, grants and commissions. Beginning with gospel arrangements in 1996, Boots initiated the bass clarinet quartet as a viable, robust chamber music modality, and has created substantial new composition catalogs for both bass clarinet and shakuhachi. He spent nine years as a progressive rock electric bass clarinetist and bandleader in Chicago and San Francisco, then began exploring primeval nature as a core influence. He started studying shakuhachi in 2001 with Michael Chikuzen Gould, from whom he earned the name Shinzen 深禅 in 2012, a Shihan in 2013 and a Dai Shihan in 2022. From 2016 onward, Boots has played only jinashi shakuhachi with an emphasis on big bamboo (Taimu) and original nature blues. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and the leader/composer of the Wood Prophets, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group. He lives in Pennsylvania.
www.corneliusboots.com