
Ian Mitchell
clarinet and bass clarinet
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.