Solo Programme- with electronics and video
microtonal trumpets and flugelhorn (19-, 24- and 48- division of the octave) and non-microtonal trumpet pieces by international composers. Possible inclusion of pieces from the Yasser Collection for the 19-div Trumpet.
Duo Programmes with duo Contour (Electronics, Malletkat, Theatre, Film)
dC have a wide repertoire, ranging from works for trumpet and drumset, to the inclusion of electronics and film. Most recently we have been performing microtonal works with a Malletkat, as well as bringing BATTAGLIA by Igor Majcen to theatres.
Duo VORTEX with Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, accordions
Contemporary works for quarter-tone accordion and quarter-tone trumpet or quarter-tone flugelhorn. Currently we have commissioned two new duo works by Ben Lunn (Scotland), Emily Koh (Singapore/USA) to combine with a mixed media piece, Sand Walking by Donald Bousted (UK) and an existing work by Nina Senk (SI).
Quintet Programme with the Furano Sax Quartet
Inside Lud’s Church with Ensemble VORTEX
A cross-genre microtonal piece inspired by the geology and geography around the chasm known as ‘Lud’s Church’.
Duo with Karin Fleck, Accordion
Improvisations, original works and transcriptions or arrangements of classical modern pieces for these two ‘wind’ instruments! Karin Fleck
Duo with Helga Zuccaro, flute
Original works, transcriptions and arrangements using an assortment of flutes, trumpets and flugelhorn. Repertoire by J.S.Bach, Donald Bousted, Wilhelm von Grunelius and André Jolivet.
Guest soloist with the Black Forest Percussion Group
A programme centred around an arrangement of Petr Eben’s “Windows” by Sebastian Meyer (CH), plus the ‘Northern Lights’ project centred around a new piece by Jonas Skaarud (NO).
Lecture Recitals:
- on the Contemporary Trumpet
Explores writing for the trumpet in quarter-tones, eighth-tones, 19-div tuning- See Solo Programme above. Originally given at the Tage für neue Musik Darmstadt, Germany.
- or the Microtonal Trumpet
Explores writing for the trumpet and the use of extended techniques- see Solo Programme above. Originally given at the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival, South Korea, 2014.
EVENTS:
2025:
14th & 15th April, 2025, Hyperchromatic Festival, Goldsmiths University, London
Shared Concerts: Deptford Town Hall, 5pm
music by Donald Bousted (WP) with Lore Amenabar Larrañaga (quarter-tone accordion), Geoffrey Cox, Joseph Gusmano (WP), Matthias S. Krüger (WP). Coreen Moorsink (WP), Paul Rhys, Maximiliano Soto Mayorga (WP), Richard Whalley.
2024
8th February, 2024, 1pm. ‘Time Dreaming’- Microtonal Trumpet and Flugelhorn. St. Pauls’ Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Dedicated to the memory of former composition tutor, Donald Bousted. Music by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted, Geoffrey Cox (WP), Ben Lunn (WP), Eleri Angharad Pound (WP), Richard Whalley.
16th February, 2024, 6.15pm. ‘Time Dreaming’- Microtonal Trumpet and Flugelhorn. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.
Music by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted, Paul Rhys (WP), Hilary Robinson (WP) and Richard Whalley.
8th March, 2024, 8pm. ‘Das Stimmt!!- with strings attached’ part of the EUROMicroFest 2024: microtonal trumpet/ flugelhorn with strings. Compositions and Improvisations.
WP by Eleni Ralli (GR/CH), Eleri Angharad Pound (Wales, GB), Emily Koh (Singapore/ USA), Paul Rhys (UK), plus music by Radelescu (Katharina Schmauder, viola) and improvisations by FLOWduo, Harald Kimmig (violin)/Lee Ferguson (percussion).
Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung, Freiburg, Germany.
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A concert series at the St. Michaelskappelle, Alte Friedhof, Freiburg, Germany, in aid of Cancer Relief. The first series focussed on wind instruments, this second series focusses on stringed instruments. Original works, transcriptions and arrangements.
5th May, 6pm. Antoine Billet (‘cello)
9th June, 6pm. duo Contour
7th July, 6pm. Katharina Schmauder (violin/ viola), .
GLAS with the Black Forest Percussion Group
OKNA by Petr Eben, arranged by Sebastian Meyer (CH).
15th November, Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung, Freiburg, Germany. 8pm
16th November, Evangelische Versöhnungskirche Waldshut, Germany. 8pm.