BDRS/RAM Double Reed Celebration October 2023

What more could you want from a fabulous day of all things double reed?

We’re very pleased to be presenting this event, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, London, building on the very successful double reed day we held together last October.

We’re very grateful to Fraser Gordon and the Academy for again hosting this event – come and enjoy a full day of sessions and performances from the Academy’s double reed professors and students! The main lunchtime concert includes the WORLD PREMIERE of the bassoon commission from the 2021 BDRS Composition Competition: Spectre by Pongtorn Techaboonakho will be performed by the fabulous Amy Harman.

In addition to the lunchtime concert there will be performance classes and opportunities to play in tutored ensembles, with the day culminating in a mass play-together, as well as a wide range of instruments and accessories on offer from various traders.

Activities to include:

• Mass play-together;

• Reed Doctor sessions – troubleshooting issues with reeds and advice on reed adjusting and making;

• Sessions on technique and other aspects of performance, including health and wellbeing;

• Tutored oboe, bassoon, and mixed ensembles;

• Teachers’ Forum – an opportunity for teachers to discuss and share ideas as well as new approaches and repertoire for the double reed instruments.

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