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MICROTONAL TALKS

Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung, Saturday 25, May, 2019, 2pm – 4.30pm 

As is usual at EUROMicroFest, we ask a small number of distinguished guests to present an insight into their work.

2.00pm || Historical Tunings and Temperaments on Guitar: An Introduction to their Realisation with Modern Microtonal Fretboards with Michael Kudirka (USA). 

2.30pm || Composer Matthias S. Krüger presnts his piece ‘Arkadische Botschaften I’ – after Peter Kees – for microtonal guitar with prepared steel strings in scordatura. We are delighted that the distinguished guitarist Stephan Schmidt will be present to play the complete work.

3.00pm || Christian Klinkenberg (BE), Engaging the audience: Microtonality and Interactivity in a Concert Situation.  Composer/performer Christian Klinkenberg will demonstrate an app which introduces interactivity into the concert situation.

3:30pm || Characteristics of the microtonal scene in Finland with composer Juhani Vesikkala

4.00pm || Crafting the Pitch: microtones on the recorder and The Quarter-Tone Recorder Manual with Kathryn Bennetts (GB), Recorder.  Kathryn will introduce the pedagogical method behind the Quarter-Tone Recorder Manual and demonstrate the progression through two works by Donald Bousted.

David Henkelman (CA) will give a keyboard recital on Saturday 25. May, 2019 at Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Wentzinger Haus, 11am- 12pm

He will play music from the 17th and early 18th Centuries in historical tunings – at least two different tunings will be used

Works by Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703), Michelangelo Rossi (1601/1602-1656), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

David Henkelman was born in Vancouver, Canada. In 2012 he received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Spanish, and then in 2015 he received a Bachelor’s of Music degree in harpsichord and historical performance from McGill University in Montreal. In 2016 David began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, studying harpsichord and fortepiano with Prof. Dr. Robert Hill and basso continuo with Prof. Michael Behringer. He finished his studies in 2019. As a harpsichordist and a continuo player, David has participated in several concerts and projects under such renowned directors as Jeanne Lamon (Tafelmusik), Raphaël Pidoux, Adrian Butterfield, and Ton Koopman, Since 2018 he has been a scholarship recipient from the Williamson Foundation of Music.

Michael Kudirka is a classical guitarist with many interests including collaborations with living composers, chamber music with guitar, and historical performance practice on lute and theorbo. Performing internationally throughout Europe, Asia, and North America he has appeared in many notable concert series, including Other Minds 8, the 43rd Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Montreal’s “Musique Contemporaine”, Portland Guitar Festival, Guitar Foundation of America 2011 International Convention, Jacaranda “Music at the Edge”, and the L.A. Philharmonic’s “Minimalist Jukebox”, among many others. He has won first prize at several major guitar competitions including the 2000 Portland International Guitar Competition, the American String Teachers Association Competition, the Pacific Guitar Competition, and the University of Southern California Concerto Competition. He has won grants from the Theodor Presser Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the American Composer’s Forum and has held faculty positions at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Southern California, and Idyllwild Arts Academy.

Michael Kudirka is sponsored by D’Addario and Augustine strings.

www.michaelkudirka.com

https://stephenaltoft.bandcamp.com/album/rasp

We have been aware that buying RASP (Stephen Altoft’s 2nd CD of 19-div music) through Tutti is expensive, because of postage and packing charges, if you live at various points around the world.  We have therefore added it to Bandcamp.  We hope you will still buy it!  Although you get 3 listens for free!

Also, we have added Steve’s first solo 19-div CD The Yasser Collection to our Dropbox Resources.  This is now available FREE if you have signed up to The Microtonal Trumpet mailing list via the contact page.

13 December, 2018 Forum Neue Musik, 7pm

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Mannheim, Germany. Works by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted and Carlos Cotallo Solares (WP). Performed by DUO CONTOUR.

There will be a presentation by Donald Bousted, composer and Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects, on the 19-division Tuning during the afternoon (2.30-4pm) for the composition class of Prof. Sidney Corbett.

PHOTOS FROM THIS EVENT

Christian Klinkenberg’s new Bohlen-Pierce composition ‘Seven Leaves’ was first performed on the 27th of April in the cultural center “Alter Schlachthof” Eupen (Belgium) with the Kl-Ex Ensemble. There will be a further performance on November 20th, 2018 in the “AINSI” Theater Maastricht (NL).

The musicians

• Nora-Louise Müller: Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet
• Todd Harrop: Bohlen-Pierce ChimesÂ
• Franck Hemmerle: Percussion
• Vedran Mutic: Bohlen-Pierce-E-BassÂ
• Melle Weijters: Bohlen-Pierce-E-Guitar
• Christian Klinkenberg: Bohlen-Pierce Keyboard
• Paul Pankert: ViolinÂ
• Suse Weisse: Storyteller
• Lothar Felten: Interactive App
• Jens Schumacher: Samples and real-time-fx
• Marc Kirschvink: Paintings

Plot

A story about lost love, an evil witch, an enchanted tree, and the leaves that hung, but never grew is integrated in the performance.

The scale

The Bohlen Pierce scale is a 13-step non octave scale which is tempered to the perfect-twelfth (3/1). For this reason, the musicians have specially constructed instruments (clarinet, keyboard, chimes). The string instruments (e-guitar, bass, violin) also need to retune their strings and have to increase the spacing of the fingerings or frets by about half.

The app

The special feature of this performance: the audience can play along via an app.

Partners

EUROMicroFest, Chudoscnik Sunergia, IMPACT (International Meeting in Performing Arts and Creative Technologies), Jazz Maastricht

Photos by Peter Ortmann

Buy RASP now from Tutti for only £12

Download the full programme notes: RASP CD Programme Notes

11 new tracks all for Stephen Altoft’s unique 19-div trumpet

We really hope you love it!  We’re already preparing the next release!