July 21-25, 2009: The first Conference to be held in the UK for 20 years, celebrates music ‘old’ and ‘new’, exploring British, European and American influences through celebrity performances, masterclasses, seminars, trade stands, social events and more. IDRS 2009 is hosted by Birmingham Conservatoire (Prof George Caird, Principal), one of the UK’s leading music colleges situated in the heart of England. More information.

The last few weeks have been fantastic here at IDRS 2009 HQ! Registrations from all over the world have been flying in!

If you have already registered for the conference, then check out the great deals we have on hotel accommodation throughout the City. You can reserve a room by clicking here: http://www.visitbirmingham.com/double_reed_society/ or alternatively you can call the Accommodation hotline on +44 (0)121 202 5005. All hotels are within the city centre, and many have reduced their rates EVEN FURTHER for the conference week! All accommodation is to be paid on arrival to the hotel, and are all within 15 mins walk maximum of the Conservatoire (most within a 5min walk).

If you want to stay in budget/student accommodation, then you can click here: http://www.ellis-salsby.co.uk/events/?eid=64 and reserve a room in the Opal One Student Accommodation for just £126 for the whole week. Please note, this is a 25min walk away from the Conservatoire (or a 5min bus ride).

Our wonderful friends at visitbirmingham.com have also compiled a whole load of very special IDRS 2009 discounts that can used throughout the conference week. From discounts in resturants, to tourist attractions to nightclubs – there’s something here for everyone! http://www.visitbirmingham.com/double_reed_society/

We are also very excited that, following his performance at the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition, french oboist David Walter will be giving a recital on Saturday 25th July in the Recital Hall!

Finally, do check out the fabulous IDRS 2009 website on your lunchbreak today! We’ve just uploaded our next interview in our Featured Artist series. This weeks interview is with bassoonist Lorelei Dowling. http://www.idrs2009.org/attend-the-conference/featured-artists

As always, send your questions, wads of cash and other assorted bribes to me at christopher.calvert@bcu.ac.uk

Bye for now!

Chris

This will be Alan Gilbert’s debut concert as music director of the New York Philharmonic

CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTING FOR TIME IN YOUR AREA.
http://www.kued.org/?area=programs&action=seriesDetails&id=352
New York Philharmonic Opening Night Gala Concert
The New York Philharmonic begins a new era as Alan Gilbert takes the reins as Music Director for the Philharmonic’s 2009 season opener. Soprano Renee Fleming headlines this gala concert. The Alan Gilbert era begins in historic fashion with a brand-new, never-before-heard overture written especially for the occasion by Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg. Fleming sings exotic Messiaen and the evening concludes with Berlioz’s spectacular orchestra showpiece, Symphonie Fantastique. Alec Baldwin hosts.

The program for opening night.
http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=1790&seasonNum=9&dateRequested=09/16/2009

Magnus Lindberg EXPO  (World Premiere: New York Philharmonic Commission)    

Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi 

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

The Sony Music Foundation is hosting the 9th International
Oboe  Competition of Karuizawa, Japan in this October.  The Competition has
been held triennially since 1985, and to date, the prize winners have taken
the  position of the principal oboist of such world famous orchestra as the
Chicago  Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Berlin Deutsche
Opera Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France,
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.

Today,  we are happy to inform you that upon the preliminary screening, the
participants  to  go  on  to  the First Stage have been selected.  Talented
young  oboists  will  be  gathered  from  all over the world to the town of
Karuizawa  to  compete  in this fall.  On October 17, a concert by the jury
members  is scheduled where one could witness and listen to the world class
performance.

We  appreciate your kind cooperation in informing about this Competition to
your  friends,  oboists,  teachers,  and  students who may be interested in
learning  about  it  and  possibly in its participation in the future.  You
could  find details of the Competition, the profile of the participants, or
about the concert in our website: http://oboeck.jp/index_e.html

Bassoonists Daniel Matsukawa and Gustavo Núñez will perform the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with their orchestra.  See below for details.

Matsukawa Plays Mozart 
October 16,17, 18 2009 (16 and 18, 2pm. 17th at 8pm)

Verizon HallThe Philadelphia Orchestra

Roger Norrington – Conductor
Daniel Matsukawa – Bassoon

Program:

BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 4
MOZART – Bassoon Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – Symphony No. 4

http://www.philorch.org/performance/7476/2009/10/16/

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Gustavo Núñez, bassoon

Oct 21, 23, 2009 8:15pm

Weber
Overture ‘Der Freischütz’

Mozart
Bassoon Concerto, KV 191

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique

http://www.concertgebouworkest.nl

The Sixth Annual Double Reed Festival of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean will take place from September 21-25, 2009 in Panama City, Panama. It is sponsored by the National Institute of Culture. This year’s teachers will be Pedro Díaz, oboe/english horn and Benjamin Coelho, bassoon.

More information.

To enroll, contact Professor Juan Castillo at Email: arundopa@msn.com, telephone: (507) 399-6226.

The Midwest Double Reed Society and the University of Kansas Double Reed Festival will take place on October 3 & 4 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Guests, Daniel Stolper, Interlochen Arts Academy, Professor Emeritus Michigan State University, & George Sakakeeny, Professor of Bassoon, Oberlin College will present master classes and a recital. $25 for non-members, $15 for student non-members and senior citizens. For a schedule of events or questions contact Margaret Marco, KU Associate Professor of Oboe at mmarco@ku.edu, or Eric Stomberg, KU Associate Professor of Bassoon at stomberg@ku.edu or visit www.mdrs.org.

The IDRS Video Enhancement Project on www.idrs.org is now complete.  The video archive available on www.idrs.org is now served via a database engine. The database engine permits members to search through all IDRS video recordings on the www.idrs.org site with the use of key words. For example, upon entering the key words “low strings,” the database will find video performances of the Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975), by Sofia Gubaidulina, and the Concerto for bassoon and low strings, by Ana Sokolovic, both performed by Stephane Levesque during the most recent IDRS conference at Birmingham, UK. Both examples are also in HD! The database also allows for a broad search. For example, one can find and display all thirty-five available video recordings of performances and master classes from the 2006 IDRS conference. To access the video site, members can look for the multimedia link on the www.idrs.org home page.

Currently, there are 210 video segments available on www.idrs.org, which are comprised of performances, master classes, interviews and a complete video archive of the Fernand Gillet – Hugo Fox International Competition from the past seven years. All video segments of performances are available to IDRS members only.

In 2002, Yoshi Ishikawa, editor of IDRS OnLine publications and former president of IDRS (1994-1997), conceived, created, and began the IDRS Video Enhancement Project. The objective of this project has been to produce one-of-a-kind, historical, and innovative video segments, which will inspire, educate, and entertain performers, pedagogues and students of double reed instruments. The goal has been to make available these video segments to the public via the most current technology.

Ishikawa is assisted by Saxton Rose, associate editor of IDRS OnLine publications. The current and former video crew includes Saxton Rose, Brian Jack, Michael Christoph, Eric Johnson and George Downing. Ishikawa is the professor bassoon performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Music, and Saxton Rose is a member of the artist faculty (bassoon performance) at the University of North Carolina, School of Music. Both Yoshi Ishikawa and Saxton Rose are active as soloists and have performed and presented master classes throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America. Video segments, which feature both Ishikawa and Rose, are part of the IDRS Video collection.

The Youth Orchestra Foundation of Chile will hold the 1º Reed Conference in Chile this month. Topics covered will be clarinet, oboe and bassoon, reeds, solo and chamber music repertoire. The conference is aimed at teachers and instructors, students of all levels, members of youth orchestras, children and professionals. The activities will be conducted by professors Rubén Albornoz (oboe), Ezequiel Fainguersch (bassoon) and Jorge Montilla (clarinet), and will be held from 26 to 28 November 2009 in Santiago, Chile.

To register or obtain more information: http://www.orquestajuvenil.cl/node/585.

Registration deadline: November 20, 2009.

The Solaris Wind Quintet will perform the Arnold Schoenberg Quintet, Op. 26, on Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 5:30pm in Guzzetta Recital Hall, 139 E. Buchtel Ave., at The University Of Akron, 44325-1002.  The concert, titled “A Viennese Salon,” will present the Schoenberg Quintet in the historical/cultural context of the 1920’s in Vienna with poetry and art by Kandinsky and popular music by Kurt Weill and Louis Armstrong. This concert is free and open to the public. For more information call 330-972-6575.

Members of Solaris (Quintet-in-residence at The University Of Akron) are Kristina Belisle Jones, clarinet, Cynthia Watson, oboe, Barrick Stees, bassoon, George Pope, flute, and William Hoyt, horn. Solaris will be joined by Megan Elk, mezzo soprano, and members of The New World Performance Laboratory, also in residence at UA. Digital videoscape acompaniment by The Cosmicswandive, a media art team from Eunsu Kang’s New Media class of The Myers School of Art at UA.

Solaris will be performing in The Rocky River Artist Concert Series on Sunday, February 28, 2010.  Their recently recorded CD of Scott Joplin Rags should be available in Spring of 2010.

http://www3.uakron.edu/music/calendars/

Ray Still 90th Birthday Celebration!!!

March 15, 2010
Honoring Ray Still, principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony for forty years (1953-1993) and former Northwestern University faculty (1960-2004).
Bienen School of Music of Northwestern University
Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, IL

5:00PM Ray Still Master Class
7:30PM Celebration Concert and Reception

Free and open to the the public! For more information, please email RayStillEvent@u.northwestern.edu

由前世界双簧协会主席石川 善之（Ishikawa Yoshiyuki）先生牵首组织召开的亚洲双簧协会（ADRA）第一界筹建理事工作会议，于3月29日、30日在香港艺术发展中心召开。应邀出席会议人员分别来自日本、中国、中国香港、中国台湾和泰国等地（韩国暂缺）。继续

Note: About ADRA in Chinese from www.bassoon.net.cn