Off to the Emirates!

Looking forward to finding this old friend--as well as playing some concerts with mezzo-soprano Gabriele Malzahn. She's invited me to help celebrate the 5th anniversary of the "House of Arts", the music, dance & arts institute school she founded in Al Ain (Abu Dhabi Emirate).

More later--I still have to pack....

September 2011: Concerts

ROULETTE, New York City
The first concert was on the 15th of September, at the GRAND OPENING. I was honored to be asked to play again at the space where I had played what turned out to be my New York debut some years ago. I opened with Kaija Saariaho's Dolce Tormento for piccolo solo, followed by the version with video of NoaNoa (with Kaija mixing the electronics and Jean-Baptiste Barriere managing the video with his team). See here the The New York Times report...
Guests of honor...

Director Jim Staley

Five days later I was back again with the New York premiere of Stockhausen's Harmonies--the 5th Hour of Klang for solo flute, Shoko Shida's Fukura semé for solo flute and nohkan, and the world premiere of Jean-Baptiste Barrière's Crossing the Blind Forest for bass flute, live electronics and live video.

COLOGNE, Germany
Before New York was the premiere of Toward the Silence, composed by myself (music for voice, bass and concert flutes) and Claudia Robles (voice, video, live electronics). No press, no pictures yet...another time, perhaps....

Concert March 18 in Cologne, 8 pm, Maison Belge

Program:
Airscope I - Isao Matsushita
Manto - Scelsi
Density 21.5 - Varèse
Musik über die Callot Figuren - Pèter Köszeghy
(German Premiere)
Syrinx - Debussy
Lunar Phases (Premiere) - Miyuki Ito
Pieces for harp solo - Gordon Sherwood
Venus - Miquel Lorca (Premiere)


with Xenia Narati, harp, and Vincent Royer, viola

Das Konzert findet im Rahmen der Reihe Schlüsselwerke der Neuen Musik von
ON - Neue Musik Köln statt.

ON - Neue Musik Köln wird gefördert durch das Netzwerk Neue Musik, ein
Förderprojekt der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, sowie durch die Stadt Köln und
die RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur.

More here:
ON
or here:
Kulturkenner - Camilla Hoitenga in Köln

Master class Helsinki

At long last--a note on our November master class in Espoo (Helsinki). Organized by the Finnish Flute Association (special thanks to flutist/president Asa Gustavson, as well as flutist/photographer Heli Talvitie!!), this weekend included everything from visits to the "Animal Farm" (see the "cute puppies" practicing their panting!!) to premieres of four (4!) new solo flute pieces, written especially for this occasion.
Highly recommended:
Vellu Halkosalmi: Choro
Lauri Toivio: Marching Piper
Jukka-Pekka Lehto: Gedichte für Flöte
And the fourth one, for which I don't have the exact name & title with me...later.....

All the composers were present, lots of the flute teachers as well, and the students played WONDERFULLY!!!

Am already looking forward to my next Finland visits!!

Concert in London

Camilla's Solo Recital in the context of "Flute School London"

TONIGHT 6.00 p.m. Hall School, 23 Crossfield Street, Swiss Cottage, LONDON

Program:

Stockhausen - Harmonies from the 5th hour of KLANG
Svoboda - Music for Piccolo
Eötvös - Kadenz from SHADOWS
Stockhausen - from AMOUR
Kobayashi - Reibo from TENTATIO 1 & 2
Minamikawa - The Secret of the Sky

Summer news....

Time for a little update.
Of the months that I've missed, there's too much to report: the last concerts and celebrations in Clermont Ferrand, for example, really deserve their own chapter, complete with illustrations by the brilliant photographer Jean-Louis Fernandez! Maybe someday. Meanwhile, I want to jump right in to NOW.

Last night my students played a great recital. (Another future blog could be to report on this wonderful class at the Rochus Music School....) I forgot to mention to them that June 30 was the date I came to Germany--exactly 30 years ago!! Amazing--three decades based in Europe already!(Not to mention the rest of the world--or the other decades experienced, for that matter ;)!)

Tomorrow I pick up my 32-year-old (!) flute (Jack Moore #42) which has been newly overhauled by Christoph Siewers. Had been thinking of getting a new, "fresh" flute, but I'm so attached to MY flute, with the still-unique innovations Jack put on for me.

In two days I fly to Savonlinna, Finland to teach at a summer camp there. It's a lovely place, with great colleagues teaching and playing, a campus on the lake, and a town geared up for the opera festival, with the operas being performed in the courtyard of the old castle. Inspiring!

After that I'm back in Germany to play music by Kaija Saariaho at the Rheingau Festival in Germany: Cendres for flute, cello, piano with Anssi Karttunen and David Lively on the 22nd, the concerto Aile du songe with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

More later--I promise!

Concert in Clermont Ferrand, March 23, 2010

mardi 23 mars à 20:30
Polydôme

avec Camilla Hoitenga (flûte)
et Norbert Krämer (percussions)

Kaija Saariaho Six Japanese Gardens
Jovanka Trbojevic, Wounded Angel
Noriko Nakamura Navi

Kaija Saariaho Couleurs du vent
Kaija Saariaho Trois rivières : delta
Yoshihiro Kanno Deep-Sea Maze

régie son et informatique Franck Rossi

from Camilla...

Well, obviously my web-site issues are not yet sorted out, so here is some news:
December 6--last concert of season, in a series in Pforzheim (a city in southern Germany known for centuries for their production of fine jewelry). under the title of "fantasies and journeys", I'll be alternating Telemann Fantasias with modern music for flute and CD/live electronic (this part handled by composer and sound-projectionist Bryan Wolf) by some of my favorite composers: Anne LeBaron, Pèter Köszeghy, Bryan Wolf and Kaija Saariaho. I've had a special request from the producers to end with Debussy's Syrinx--gladly!

For more information, also about the program, check out this web address:
http://www.pz-news.de/kultur/konzerte/97193/

The first concert of 2008 will be another appearance at the festival "Music in the Houses of the City". This time I'll be cooking up something with the dancer/choreographer Rick Kam. The word "house" is used more to describe the ambience of the concerts rather than the venues. We, for example, will be performing in the not-yet-completed new space being built for Microsoft near the Rhine river. (January 20, 2 p.m.).

All for now--Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Concerts 2007

2007
* January 19 - Moscow (Russia) International Music Festival "Christma at the Kremlin"
Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Micha Rachlevsky, conductor
Arvydas Malcys, Vox Clamantis in Deserto, for flute and Chamber Orchestra (1995)

* February 3 – Cologne (Germany) Musik in den Häusern der Stadt: Hotel “The New Yorker”
The Soul of the Flute
Works by Telemann, Stamitz, Karg-Elert, Malcys (premiere), Hoitenga, Saariaho, Stockhausen

* February 24 – Vilnius (Lithuania)
National Symphony Orchestra, Robertas Servenikas, conductor
Arvydas Malcys, Vox Clamantis in Deserto, for flute and Chamber Orchestra (1995)

* March 8 - Helsinki (Finland)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, conductor
Pèter Köszeghy, Soulflight for flute and orchestra World premiere

* March 12 - Bergen (Norway) Borealis Festival
Kaija Saariaho, Noa Noa, Laconisme de l’aile, Couleurs du vent, Dolce Tormento

* May 1 - 16 Tour (Japan)
2-6 Biwako Competiton
9 Recital, Create Center, Ibaraki, with Shigenori and Yoko Takahashi
16 Recital, Waseda University, Tokyo, with Yoshihiro Kanno, piano
works by Jakub Sarwas, Pèter Koeszeghy, Karg-Elert, Quantz, Stockhausen, Mario
Lavista

* May 21 & 22 - Marseilles (France)
Festival "Les Musiques Marseilles"
Jean-Baptiste Barriere, "Deux songes de Maeterlicnk d'après Brugel" Premiere

* May 26 - Wroslaw (Poland) Musica Electronica Nova 2007
with Anssi Karttunen, cello, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Wladimir Kiradijew, cond.
Kaija Saariaho, ... à la fumée

* June 26 - – Cologne (Germany), Japanese Cultural Institute
with Norbert Krämer, percussion
SOUNDS OF TIME
Works by Noriko Nakamura, Miyuki Ito, Shoko Shida, Claude Lenners, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Michio Kitazume

* July 23-27 Pärnu (Estonia) Oistrakh Festival
July 23 Kuldar Sink, Concerto, St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra , Alexander Mayer, conductor
July 24 Galina Grigoryeva, quasi niente for flute and percussion, with Madis Metsamart (Estonia)
July 25 Borne, Carmen Fantasie, St. Petersburg and Pärnu Philharmonic orchestras, Erki Pehk, conductor
July 26 Mozart D-major Quartet, with the Collegium String Quartet (Ukraine)

* August 18 Münster (Germany) Lange Nacht der Musik
Improvisation with Erhard Hirt, electric guitar

* August 25 Münster (Germany) Black Box series
Music for flute and electronic CD by Anne LeBaron, Pèter Koeszeghy, Takahiko Suzuki, Zack Browning

* September 23 Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw Fall Festival
Concert playing solo flute in the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

* October 19 Donaueschingen (Germany)
Concert playing solo flute in the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Works by Klaus Huber, Younghi Pagh Paan, Helmut Oehring, Makiko Nishikaze

* November 22 Vilnius (Lithuania)
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Donatus Katkus, conductor
Concertos by Quantz, Raminta Serksnyte World premiere, Malika Kishino World
premiere, C.P.E.Bach