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OPEN MORNING FOR YOUNG BASSOONISTS AT CHETHAM'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Graham Salvage explains, "We are having an open morning at the Chet's School in Manchester on the Saturday 18th February and we would welcome all aspiring young bassoonists to visit the school and see what an education they could have with also fine bassoon tuition and playing possibilities.
The school caters for ages from 8-18. We have a Mini Bassoon, a short reach model and a professional model bassoon available for new learners.
Come along and have a blow!"
Telephone 0161 439 8251 for further information or email as below:
CAMBRIDGE OBOIST AWARDED QUEEN'S MEDAL FOR MUSIC
A CAMBRIDGE musician has been awarded the revered Queen’s Medal for Music for his outstanding contribution to the musical life of the nation.
Oboist and conductor Nicholas Daniel – one of the founding members of the Cambridge-based Britten Sinfonia chamber orchestra - will be presented with the medal by Her Majesty later in the year.
The British Double Reed Society wishes to be among the first to congratulate Nicholas Daniel on his award of the Queen's Medal for Music for services to music in the United Kingdom. Among other recipients since the medal was introduced in 2005 are Sir Colin Davies, Dame Emma Kirkby and Bryn Terfel.
New Players Welcome at Occasional Orchestras
Amateur orchestral musicians are invited to join two ‘occasional orchestras’ which have been formed in Lincolnshire.
Rehearsals under conductor Mary Michell take place on selected Saturday mornings in Grantham and in Nettleham, near Lincoln. All run from 9.30am to 12.30pm and the attendance fee is £7 per session.
Players interested in joining either group should contact soundLINCS – Lincolnshire Music Development Agency - for details: call 01522 510073, e-mail info@soundlincs.org or visit www.soundlincs.org
FREE ACCESS TO Classical music magazine
Classical Music is the authoritative voice of the classical music profession.
BDRS features in the current issue (24 Sep 2011) which BDRS members can view online.
In a special deal with Rhinegold Publishing, BDRS members can register to view digitally on-line completely free of charge all succeeding issues of the magazine until the end of September 2012.
The magazine is fortnightly and has all the music jobs advertised, along with news items as they happen and expert views from the biggest movers and shakers in the business.
The Munich Oboe Competition
The Munich Oboe Competition organised by the ARD Broadcasting Organisation concluded without a first prize winner.
Those given however were:
Ivan Podyomov (Russia) and Philipe Tondre (France) - joint second prize
Cristina Gomez Godoy (Spain) and Marc Lachat (France) - joint third prize
Philipe Tondre, who also won the Audience Prize.
Of the 37 candidates accepted after taped auditions there was a single entrant from Great Britain who was eliminated in the first live round.
See the website for more information and some sound clips.
PLAY WITH A PRO
Tom Hardy advises that this website has a new video from Berlin Philarmonic veterans, oboist Hansjörg Schellenberger and flautist Emmanuel Pahud.
Tom comments "A few months ago I emailed about the great videos on http://www.playwithapro.com/ with Gustavo Núñez from the Concertgebouw Orchestra.They have now put a new video up from Berlin Phil veterans oboist Hansjörg Schellenberger and flautist Emmanuel Pahud.
The download of the first video from Schellenberger (Breathing and Blowing) is free (you have to also have the player installed from the site though you can watch a free preview). Both he and Emmanuel Pahud make some points on breathing that I have never heard before and that I found amazingly helpful.
Always easier "said" rather than put into practise and done of course, but in this case it had an immediate impact on my playing.
It never ceases to amaze me how one player sounds like him or herself on whatever make of instrument they play on.
In the search for an easier life we try Heckel, Fox, Moosmann, Puchner, Bell, Soulsby, Adler, Mollenhauer and so on (though I have yet to try a Leitzinger bassoon!). Also endless reed scraping and crook changing has led me to a set up that feels comfortable with a wide dynamic range. But at the end of the day I sound like Tom playing the bassoon. Even on a Chinese Lark. Which for all of us is actually a good thing as it is our individual voice.
But some of Emmanuel Pahud's comments on resonance (especially an analogy he makes and a comment on how to open up the sinus and nose area) go a long way to explaining to me why this would be. And a practise session after watching this video was VERY fruitful (and fruity in the "resonance" department!).
So in the interest of improving sound / projection / tuning / comfort / endurance and dynamic range have a look and let me know if you agree or disagree with them and what you get out of it!
I'm sure there will be as many viewpoints as there are players but either way there is something to be gained from this video.
Hats off to founder Adam Simonsen (clarinetist playing in The Royal Danish Orchestra, educated from the Juilliard School of Music, and founder of Play with a Pro) for creating this site and getting these videos done! He tells me he is doing one with Sergio Azzolini in September on Vivaldi concertos - now that's going to be fascinating...
Alexei Ogrintchouk
Here is a very interesting and lengthy interview with Russian oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw artist interview series.
The long awaited Ram bassoon ensemble cd is now available.
Directed by John Orford, the CD includes Karl Kolbinger, Prokofiev, Richard Bissill, Debussy, Gershwin, Dizzy Gillespie/Don Raye/Harold Airen/Richard Rogers, Glinka.
The Academy Bassoon Ensemble showcases the talents of all bassoon students at the Academy. It presents annual concerts; this is its first recording.
BASSOON WANTED FOR IRAQ
I am currently on the lookout, on behalf of a bassoonist in the Middle East for a very cheap bassoon. I am wondering if any of you have an instrument sitting in a cupboard, unused, unloved and unwanted, and wouldn’t mind selling it for something below its true value. He's really looking for any reasonable instrument with a full German system, the cheaper and more reliable the better.
It would be going to an extraordinarily good cause. The bassoonist I am trying to help is the bassoon teacher at the Sulimaniyah Institute of Fine Arts, in Iraq, Daroon Qaradakhi. Yes, Iraq! Previously he was studying at the Institute for fine arts, where he was loaned an instrument, however, there is now a pupil there, so he has to give the pupil his bassoon, and now has no bassoon to teach on.
He is looking for an instrument costing less than $2,000, which is around £1,350. Although this does not sound a lot, the average wage in Iraq is $3,800, so that is a considerable amount of money for Daroon.
I know that Daroon would be so eternally grateful for any help or assistance that he can get, and it would help the continued existence of the bassoon in Iraq, as he would be in a position to teach much more successfully, and play with the orchestra in his home city.
If any of you are in a position to help, then please do not hesitate to contact me, via my email address nickmacorison@hotmail.com, alternatively ring me on 07912 50 125. Thank You. Nick Macorison, London UK.
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*** WANTED TO HIRE ***
Buffet Contra WANTED for hire.
May and 1-10th June for OAE.
If you can help, please email David Chatterton,
Ex Principal Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBCSO,
Hon RAM at davidchatterton@hotmail.com
 *** LOST OBOE ***
Oboe left in cab at E. Croydon in early hours of Wednesday 21st September 2011 en route to Crystal Palace.
Model is a rare Sound Alchemy Enigma, serial no.: MB746.
It was in a light brown wooden box, within a black acrylic outer cover,
which has 'laminate' stickers on it & an Abbey Rd Orchestral Pass No. 0568.
Inside box is a silver reed box engraved with name 'Dom'.
It also has a unique bell which has dimples on the inner surface of the bore as pictured above. There are only 3 of these style bells in the world.
It's also engraved Enigma or possibly 'Sound Alchemy' on the bell.
Any information please telephone 01306 500 022 or email dom@dominickelly.com
*** BASSOON STOLEN ***
On July 18, 2011, a Heckel bassoon No. 11321-5 was stolen from a house in Birmingham UK.
The bassoon has a light brown colour, has a Dutch leg rest on it (legrest itself wasn't taken). The keys are nickelplated and the top ring is white.
It contains 2 Heckel crooks as well: CD 2 XL and CC 1 XL. It is carried in a black Marcus Bonna case with the brand name ADAMS on it. (The bassoon comes apart in 4 pieces in the case).
If you have any information please telephone UK number: 0044 7747 315 746 or Dutch number: 0031 629 466 318 or email grethatuls@hotmail.com
Benslow Music 2012 Courses
9-11 March 2012
The Camden Wind Ensemble Course, with Simon de Souza and others
20-22 Apri 2012
Janet Myatt's Introduction to Wind Chamber Music
8-10 May 2012
Wind Ensembles with The London Myriads
18-20 May 2012
Janet Myatt's New Winds
25-27 May 2012
Oboe Extravaganza with Andrew Knights and Ian Clarke on piano
15-17 June 2012
The Camden Wind Ensemble Course, with Simon de Souza and others
All courses at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK.
The 10th International Oboe Competition of Japan 2012
Hosted by Sony Music Foundation the competition is in Karuizawa in September. The Competition is being held triennially since 1985, and to date, the prize winners have taken the position of the principal oboists of such world famous orchestra as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin Deutsche Opera Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra to name a few.
Application: 1st February to 2nd April 2012
Competition begins 30th September.
Karuizawa Japan
John Myatt Memorial Concert
Mahlers 5th. Symphony
Schonberg Chamber Symphony
Bach suite No. 1
Any one interested in playing please contact Janet Myatt at janet@windchambermusic.org.uk
or
Colin Beak at colinbeak1@btinternet.com
4th February 2012
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Suffolk, UK
Klezmer Weekend...
...in preparation – if you are interested to be on mailing list tel: 01604-845-885 or email.
Spring 2012
UK
Oboe Masterclass: Jonathan Kelly
With Jonathan Kelly, Visiting Professor at the Academy, Principal Oboe of the Berlin Philharmonic rchestra and Academy alumnus.
Free, no tickets required
Monday 5 March 2012
10.30am–1.30pm and 3.30–6.30pm
Henry Wood Room, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Flutewise presents Woodwind United...
A fully residential course for all woodwind players aged 8 - 18 years
from beginners to post Grade 8 standard at Abbotsholme School,
Staffordshire.
For more details and booking please
see website.
11th - 14th April 2012
Staffordshire, UK
Nordic Bassoon Symposium
The principal bassoonists of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestram Per Hannevold
and John Milller, are presenting the Eighteenth Annual Edition of the Nordic Bassoon Symposium.
12th - 15th April 2012
Bergen, Norway
The ACE Foundation presents a Double Reed Day with Anthony Robson...
All oboe and bassoon players from Grade 3 to Diploma are invited to join Anthony Robson as he hosts a very special day of double reed music making. Includes ensemble playing, demonstration concert, talk about historical instruments, and an 'end of day' concert. Joined by Philip Turbett, Graham Dolby, and Jenny Sewell.
13th May 2012
Cambridge, UK
Reynard Music Weekend for Wind, Strings & Piano
Various chamber ensembles, Clarinet Choir, Light Orchestral plenary session each evening, 'New Tricks' sessions – try a different instrument.
Middle Aston offers de-luxe accommodation & cordon bleu food. Grade 6+ probably needed for enjoyment.
Director: Michael Watkins
Tutors: Val Brodie MBE & Simon Dewhurst
Fee: £190 non-resident, from £280 full board, part-time enquire.
Tel: 01604-845-885
30th June - 2nd July 2012
Middle Aston Leadership Centre, Nr. Oxford, UK
Malvern Winds Summer Course
A wonderful mix of wind chamber music sessions, world-class tutors who also perform in concerts, instrumental workshops, social events (including wine-tasting and a ceilidh) and chances to explore the beautiful Malvern hills.
The tutors are the trio Cuillin Sound - flautist Lynda Coffin (formerly principal in CBSO and RPO), clarinettist Sarah Watts (with an international reputation as a bass clarinet soloist) and bassoonist Laurence Perkins (soloist, and principal bassoon in Manchester Camerata). They are joined by oboist Roy Carter (formerly principal oboe in the LSO, ENO and Northern Sinfonia), and the horn tutor will be Neil Grundy, (formerly BBC Philharmonic Orchestra).
4-11 August 2012
Malvern College, Malvern, Worcestershire
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