Bassist and composer Simón García was born in Mugardos (Spain) in 1977 and graduated in double bass from the Conservatorio Superior of Salamanca. He has worked as a double bassist in the Royal Orchestra of Galicia, having also performed in many orchestras throughout Spain, and is the bassist in the Symphony Wind Orchestra of A. Coruna. He has collaborated with many musicians and ensembles, particularly in the field of contemporary music, and has recorded and performed on many commercial recordings and for television and radio broadcasts.
Simón has composed more than sixty works for double bass, ranging from one to twelve players, alongside transcriptions of these pieces for various chamber ensembles. His music has been performed in Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Denmark, Spain, Japan, Italy, Austria, Germany, Canada, USA, and UK by The Bass Gang, Bass Instinct, and Il Quint-etto amongst others.
Simón García writes: "I wrote Aires Cariocas for my dear friends of the Brazilian ensemble Fabrica Orquestra, a group featuring Double Bass, Quartet and percussion…
Simón García writes: “I wrote Aires Cariocas for my dear friends of the Brazilian ensemble Fabrica Orquestra, a group featuring Double Bass, Quartet and percussion in October 2015.
Their use of percussion helped me to think of writing some of joyful Brazilian rhythms and the result was a piece somewhere between Bossa Nova and Samba. The work starts with an introduction which I will use as a coda, too. There are two main themes, firstly in a major key and then in a minor key, crisscrossed with 7/8 sections where I mixed the Samba and Bossa clave patterns. It´s a very lyrical piece built on a syncopated rhythm where I use the entire range of the instrument and contrast homophonic parts with accompanying melody parts.
I decided that the published edition would work better as a bass quartet and without percussion.
In February 2017 I created a new version for Double Bass, Octet for Petia Bagovska which was premiered on 15th March 2017 at the National Academy of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria).”
