Mark Niemann-Ross goes to (Mel Brown Jazz) camp: Thursday – The participants
Heidi is a fellow bassist, and one of the stand-out artists here in camp. She started Mel Brown Jazz Camp in 2007, playing the flute, but he had a chance to play some bass. In 2008, she returned as a full-time bass player, was on the vertical. Note: Heidi has been playing bass for about four years - and it is stellar.
"I feel slightly above average. I started in the combos below, but worked to get into the advanced combos, "says Christiansen. "It feels like the right path - it's how I'm wired. I'm not good to exercise, I hate track. I like going out with the musicians.They laugh at my jokes. "
Christiansen is enrolled at the University of Oregon in Jazz Studies program, and hopes to pursue a doctorate in music education. Next year, it can return to Mel Brown Jazz Camp as a counselor.
"I want to do some touring," she says. "But I'm going to need to focus on repaying my student loans.
FSC UK present award to Hanson Clarinets and Sound & Fair « FSC UK ...
27th May 2011
FSC UK will be presenting an award to Hanson Clarinets and Sound & Fair at a concert in Cambridge tomorrow (Saturday) evening. The awards are being presented throughout 2011, the UN International Year of Forests, to organisations considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the work of FSC in the UK.
Hanson Clarinets and Sound & Fair worked together to produce the world’s first FSC certified clarinet, establishing the chain of custody from the forests in Tanzania to the Hanson factory in Yorkshire.
Oboist, conductor and Sound & Fair Patron, Nicholas Daniel, is directing a concert to raise awareness of responsible woodwind instruments made from sustainably harvested African blackwood.
Sound & Fair presents The Haffner Reed Trio with Kathryn Stott – piano takes place at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge, UK, on Saturday 28 May 2011....
Igor Shakhman talks about the Portland Clarinet Symposium « Oregon ...
Igor Shakhman will be going into overtime during the month of January, and that’s nothing unusual for him. Besides teaching the clarinet at the University of Portland and Marylhurst University and serving as the principal clarinetist of the Vancouver Symphony, Shakhman is organizing the Portland Clarinet Symposium . That’s right. Clarinetists from the West Coast and beyond will be converging at University of Portland on January 29th to improve their playing and hobnob with some of the best clarinetists around, including Daniel Gilbert who was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra for many years and now is a member of the music faculty of the University of Michigan.
To find out more about the Portland Clarinet Symposium, I met with Shakhman at Caffe D’arte in Northeast Portland. Here’s our conversation:
What will the Portland Clarinet Symposium feature?