French composer Guillaume Connesson wrote his “Disco-Toccata” in one morning in 1994. This piece is written for clarinet and cello, and is influenced by disco music: strong beat and specific melodic formulas. The amazing energy of the piece comes from the fast tempo, which gave Guillaume Connesson the idea of the baroque toccata. You can…
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Do you know Emilien Veret? No? Let me introduce him: he is a french clarinetist in Paris, and has a great project: “Clarinettes urbaines”, which means “urban clarinets” in French (easy, isn’t it?) He plays the Bb clarinet and the bass clarinet, and also beatboxes! He uses loop pedals to create his jazz-world-electro-classical-and-many-other-music-styles-inspired compositions and…
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When you learn playing the clarinet, crossing the break is a big step! Because between A and B, or Bb and B, you’ll need to move almost all your fingers. Maybe a little joke could make it easier? Let’s transpose Neil Armstrong quote “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”…
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I just discovered Ismail Lumanovski a few days ago, through a video a friend of mine shared on facebook: I was so enthusiast that I spent half a day searching all I could find about this fabulous clarinetist, yet pretty unknown here in France… Is he well known in the United States? Let me know…
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