Autumn is here!
After a busy summer of travel to Clarinet Fest in Ireland and our own South Delta Jazz Festival, I am back with a busy Fall schedule.
Various performances with Emmett Hatlelid – last Friday of the month at Petras for the fall
– October, November and December.
A group pic from our youth orchestra camp in October at Camp Stillwood with RDYO. An ammzing two days of working with about 120 students and 6 faculty.
November 7 is the reprise of the Vancouver InterArts Collective (VIC). Under Brad’s leadership once again we will present a provocative sixty-minute structured improvisation that combines music, dance, soundscape, sung and spoken word, real-time visual art, and creative lighting. Featuring Brad Muirhead (project lead, trombone), Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget (dance/movement), DB Boyko (voice), Isaac Rosen-Purcell (clarinet/electronics), Stephen Robb (clarinet/ EWI), Nick Apivor and Gary Wideman (percussion).
So is it “art as language”? Are we having a real conversation? Yes, but purely in terms of our various art forms.
I will be performing on clarinet with electronics processing, and EWI (electronic wind instrument) The project is the brainchild of Brad Muirhead, who has been the artist-in-residence at Moberly Arts Centre this past spring.
On November 17 I have the good fortune to perform with Van Django again, this time with RDYO in f fundraising concert for the Vancouver Centennial Rotary Club. Looking forward to this rare opportunity to perform with Van Django, I will be playing some jazz clarinet too..
