Han Reardon-Smith
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Last week I attended a lecture as part of a master seminar series at HoGent, run by the quite incredible Lukas Pairon, entitled ‘The Philosophy of Enthusiasm’. The series has seen artists from many diverse fields giving talks on finding their passion, sticking with it, and turning it into a successful career, including all the
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I spent most of August at summer festival-academies for new music. First up was the one and only Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik – the 47th such festival, and so it’s particularly impressive how even with a great tradition behind it, it still manages to be at the cutting edge of music today. What
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While here in Cologne I’ve been working on some of the big contemporary repertoire pieces for the flute. With Camilla Hoitenga I’ve been tackling Stockhausen’s In Freundschaft – originally for clarinet and scored for a great many different orchestral instruments. Indeed, the meaning behind the title is twofold, referring both to Stockhausen’s friendship with clarinettist Suzanne
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While in Europe on an ArtStart, studying with musikFabrik’s Helen Bledsoe and Kaija Saariaho’s flute muse Dr Camilla Hoitenga, I’ve fallen on my feet a bit and managed to land a gig playing with Ensemble Fractales from Brussels playing Grisey’s Talea and Murail’s Treize Couleurs in early June. This will be my second time performing the Grisey,
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