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EVENTS DIARY       

2020

November 2-5

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Tutor, chamber music course for wind and piano

October 6

Recording works by Tony Coe, Sadie Harrison, Nicola LeFanu, Howard Skempton, Errollyn Wallen for CD entitled for clarinet and strings

to be released June 2021 on Metier/Divine Art

July 17-19

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, Somerset

Tutor, Woodwind Chamber Music course CANCELLED DUE TO OVID

May 23

Concert of music by Dave Ryan

St Ives, Cambridgeshire  CANCELLED DUE TO COVID

May 2 

York Late Music. Recital with Gemini.

Music by Philip Grange, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sadie Harrison (1st perf.), Steve Crowther (1st perf.), Morag Galloway (1st perf.). POSTPONED DUE TO COVID

March 27-29

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists CANCELLED DUE TO COVID

 

March 12

Stanley Glasser Crossroads for clarinet and piano

with Aleksander Szram, piano

Deptford Town Hall,

Concert in memory of Stanley Glasser

2019

January 17-18

Record music for CD by Philip Grange with Gemini

 

February 3

Performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff  by Paul Harvey (narrator and clt quartet) Ripley Arts Centre

March 19-22

Adjudicator for Godalming Festival

March 23

Haydn Creation, Eastbourne

April 12-14

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

May 7

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Danced

Adjudicator for Gladys Puttick Improvisation Prize (with Linda Hirst)

June 13

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Dave Ryan Aphorisms (ensemble) premiere

July 19-21

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, Somerset

Tutor, Woodwind Chamber Music course

August 19

Cafe Oto, Ashwin St, London E8 3DL

Dave Smith Kaivopuisto  premiere of first complete performance of version for bass clarinet/piano (composer)

September 19 

The Warehouse, 13 Theed St, London SE1 8ST

Hugh Shrapnel New Work premiere

Philip Edwards, clarinet; Ian Mitchell bass clarinet

November 4-7

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Tutor, chamber music course for wind and piano

2018

 

January 16

Borough Music, St George the Martyr Church, London SE1 IJA 1.00pm

Recital of music by Robert Percy, Dan Kessner, Tom Ingoldsby for flute, bass clarinet and piano

 

April 6-8

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

July 13-15

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, Somerset

Tutor, Woodwind Chamber Music course

September 21

Release of Bass Clarinet and Friends - a miscellany on Metier msv28579

Ian Mitchell b clt with Gemini and friends

 

September 30

Winchester Cathedral

Concert to mark what would have been Alan Hacker's 80th birthday

1st public performance of John Tavener Little Troika for Marianna for solo clarinet

1st performance of Harrison Birtwistle Plainsong for Five Clarinets

October 7

1901 Arts Club

London SE1 8UE

Launch of Bass Clarinet and Friends CD. Music by Jonathan Harvey, Sadie Harrison, Cheryl Frances-Hoad

November 5-8

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Tutor, chamber music course for wind and piano

November 12

St Paul's Church Bristol: Gemini (soprano, clarinet, percussion) perform works by Severn Composers Alliance

December 11

3.00pm Live interview on Resonance FM

2017

February 3

Rome, British Academy: a mutimedia performance of Lucretius Recitativo by Dave Ryan

February 18

London: launch of Gemini CD with music by Nicola Lefanu and David Lumsdaine

February 28

1.oopm,  George the Martyr, London SE1 1JA

a mutimedia performance of Lucretius Recitativo by Dave Ryan

March 29

Adjudicator, Royal Marines Young Musician of the Year

March 30

Masterclass, Royal Marines School of Music

April 21-23

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

April 24

BBC Radio 3 perform Nicola LeFanu The Same Day Dawns with Gemini (sop/fl/clt/vln/vc/perc)

April 26

BBC Radio 3 perform Nicola LeFanu Invisible Places  with Gemini (clt/2vln/vla/vc)

June 7

I'Klectik Art Lab London SE1 7LG 7.30pm

Concert with ensemble Edges performing experimental works by Bryars, Coleridge, Shrapnel, Wolff, etc.

June 19

Clapton

Premiere showing of film by Simon Payne of Michael Parsons Intersections for two bass clarinets, IM with Dave Ryan 

July 7-9

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, Somerset

Tutor, Woodwind Chamber Music course

 

July 30- August 5

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Tutor, Mixed Chamber Music course

October 17

South Croydon

Lecture-recital entitled: Nowt stranger than music. A wander through a Yorkshire man’s sometimes strange career, ranging from T’North to North Korea

November 6-9

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Tutor, chamber music course for wind and piano

November 24-26

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

2016

January 6, 18.30

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

70th birthday concert for Anthony Green:

programme includes Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano

(with Aleksander Szram, piano)

 

February 4, 13.00

St Alfege Church, Greenwich

A programme of music for bass clarinet ensembles with Trinity Laban students

 

March 8, 19.30

I'Klectic Art Centre, London SE1 7LG

A programme of music by women composers, including Shulamit Ran's Monologue for an Actor for solo clarinet

 

March 16, 17.30

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

(Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich)

A programme of music for bass clarinet ensembles with Trinity Laban students

 

March 19, Hailsham, Kent

Mozart Requiem (basset horn)

 

March 20, Hoxton Hall, London N1 6SH

A concert with CoMA including quartets for wind (bass clarinet)

 

April 1-3

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

 

April 23, 19.30

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Richard Hoadley: New Work for bass clarinet, electronics and surround computerised images

 

May 15, Darlington

Leading Darlington Clarinet Ensemble 'Playday':

a day of coaching and workshops for clarinets and saxophones 

June 21

York University

with violinist Alison Blunt, composer Richard Hoadley, dancers and laptops

 

July 12

EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts)London conference, with composer Richard Hoadley, screens and laptops

July 16-18

Jackdaws Music Education Trust, Frome, Somerset

Tutor, Woodwind Chamber Music course

 

July 31- August 7

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Tutor, Mixed Chamber Music course

September 15

Cambridge: film Michael Parson's Intersections for two bass clarinets with Dave Ryan, bass clarinet

September 15

BBC Radio 3 perform Maxwell Davies's Ave Maris Stella  (fl/lct/mar/pno/vln/vc)

September 27

BBC Radio 3 broadcast of CD recording of Oliver Knussen's Trumpets for soprano and three clarinets (with Linda Hirst, Michael Collins, Edward Pillinger)

October 1

Anglia Ruskin University (Chelmsford campus)

Workshop with composer Richard Hoadley, dancers, laptops and screens

November 25-27

Benslow Music, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Director, Bass Clarinet Extravaganza: a w/e course for bass clarinettists

December 16

Manchester University

Conduct Gemini in world premiere of Philip Grange Shifting Thresholds in a concert to celebrate Grange's 60th birthday.

 

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