flute
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This is a bit out of character for a blog that is mostly talking about my own music practices, but I’m so dang excited about this that I was inspired to get a few thoughts down. Please note that in the great tradition of blogging this is rapidly written and fairly poorly cited, throwing a
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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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