Concert in Marseille

CAMILLA HOITENGA & RAPHAËLE KENNEDY / LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO
Dans le cadre du Festival Nuit d'Hiver #7 organisé par le GRIM
Location:montévidéo
Time:8:30PM Wednesday, December 16th

CAMILLA HOITENGA, flûtes & RAPHAËLE KENNEDY, voix (France)
Aimons !

« Notre collaboration est née d’un goût et d’un engagement communs pour la musique de Kaija Saariaho qui, en faisant appel à chacune de nous, provoqua il y a quelques temps notre rencontre. Complicité, énergie, ludisme, poésie, travail sur la texture qu’offrent flûte et voix enlacées sont les atouts que nous souhaitons développer aussi bien dans le répertoire existant que dans des créations.
Aimons ! est une légère immersion dans certaines manifestations d’exaltation amoureuse, qu’elle soit humaine ou sublimée».
CAMILLA HOITENGA & RAPHAËLE KENNEDY

http://www.hoitenga.org/
http://www.raphaelekennedy.com/

The Program:
Kaija Saariaho - Changing Light
Patrick Burgan - Jeux de Femmes
Yu Kuwabara - Ohyarai Variations*
Pierre-Adrien Charpy - Matar, no te mataria.**
William Brooks - Sweet **
* European premiere
** World Premiere

Hello from Japan

Back in Japan, this time on a grant from the US government to tour as their guest soloist for the "Winter Holiday Concert Series". The title may be Politically Correct, but in addition to a "seasonal mix" of my current Classical and Contemporary favorites, they have requested some popular Christmas songs. For this I am creating a shakuhachi version of Jingle Bells, Silent Night for flute and voice, and, more seriously, O Come Emmanuel for alto flute solo.

I'm beginning with a visit to composer-friends in Kyoto, Nagoya and Tokyo before embarking on the whirlwind tour of American centers from Osaka to Fukuoka and Kumamoto to Naha, then back to Tokyo and Nagoya. Of course every minute is full of interesting and "reportable" events or observations (even if this is about my 17th extended stay in this one of my favorite countries), but (as usual) a lot will have to be left to your imagination(s).

Most important - the program repertoire:

Classic: Kuhlau Caprice Nr. 10, Telemann Fantasies G-major, b-minor, E-major
Japanese: Takemitsu Itinerant, Harue Kondoh The Moon of Shighira, Yu Kuwabara Ohyarai Variations (WORLD PREMIERE)
American: Shirish Korde Tenderness of Cranes,
Mike Svoboda Music for Piccolo (from Something Bigger), Harold Meltzer Trapset for alto flute
"Christmas presents": some Stockhausen and Saariaho, plus some Nutcracker Suite and Christmas Carols (see above).

Am looking forward to presenting this music to various listeners in various venues....

Concert in Hannover

October 24 Hannover, Eisfabrik, 8 pm
Music for solo flute by Eduardo Flores Abad, for flute and electronics by Mesias Maiguashca

Flutists at the Estonian seaside

Altana Summer Workshop Campers

Hello from home...

Dear Friends,
Thanks for checking in, and I'm sorry I am not a real "blogger". Someday...(?) At some point I could report on the amazing concerts and students in Japan, on the Kaija Saariaho weekend in Hamburg, and then on the quick trip to London to see the new staging of her opera L'amour de loin at the Coliseum. Meanwhile, here are some recent photos: taken in Hamburg, in the British Museum, and in the Tate Britain!

Concert and Master Class schedule

Upcoming activities in chronological order:

June 3 - arrive in Japan
June 5 - Nagoya Chikusa Playhouse, concert (flyer below)
June 12 - DEADLINE for registering for TWS Master Class!
June 13 - Kyoto Arts Complex, concert (flyer below)
June 15 - Toyko Ariake Junior College of Education and the Arts, lecture/concert
June 16 - Tokyo Waseda University, concert
June 18 - Tokyo US Embassy, concert
June 20 - Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Open Atelier
June 21 - Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Master Class
June 25 - leave Japan

July 3 - Hamburg (Germany), Musikhochschule, Master Class Saariaho
July 20-24 - Bad Homburg (Germany), Altana Summer Workshop
July 25-30 - Tallin (Estonia), recording with Tallin Chamber Orchestra

August 9-14 - Auvergne (France) Chateau Chazelles, Master Class: Cancelled!