ensemble360 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ensemble360) wrote,@ 2007-06-18 14:09:00 |
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Summer
Hi everyone,
So, the summer is here (although unfortunately some days one cannot really feel it) and we are about to finish our second season. It seems to me like it went by so quickly...
Before I continue, I owe you all an apology for missing the last three days of the Festival...I had to go an play two chamber concerts in Germany and France that were scheduled before the festival...I was so gutted to leave...I really felt so empty suddenly without the shirts, atmosphere and buzz. But at least I was playing in Paris in the last two days of the Festival so I felt that I am supporting everyone by being there somehow....
Anyway, the Festival was so amazing I thought, and of course the theme of French music was right up my alley...I was especially happy with the response of the public to Varese's Density 21.5...it is always a question when programming modern music pieces since we are always afraid it will scare the public away....but judging from this experience, I am very optimistic!! Well done for everyone who ran the half marathon! I was so so sad for missing that as well as I am a jogger my self!
After that, as Marie wrote already we had our Beethoven recording. It is never really easy to describe how well those recordings go...so I won't even try....
As for now, I just came back from Germany where I played a project with Claudia in a chamber orchestra where we first met! It is always so amazing playing with her...
So, in the beginning of July Claudia and I are going to teach in a special festival in the Alps in Austria all dedicated to coaching chamber music for amateur musicians where we are going to play some concerts as well with the rest of the faculty members. Right after that I am off to the Netherlands to another chamber music festival where I am playing one concert for winds and strings where the main piece of the concert will be....how not Spohr Nonet!!
From the Netherlands I will be joining the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Barenboim in Salzburg where this year the orchestra is the resident orchestra of the famous Salzburg Festival. We will be touring for a month and a half (!?!!?!) in Europe which will probably be great fun but also so exhausting and I will miss Claudia a lot....
When this is over I will be going back home but also in Israel I will be playing in the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival for a week and then hopefully I will have some time off!!!!!!!!!
So this is how my summer is going to look...not much time off but loads of music!!
I will see you all back in Sheffield in October!
All my love,
Guy xxxx
Hi everyone,
So, the summer is here (although unfortunately some days one cannot really feel it) and we are about to finish our second season. It seems to me like it went by so quickly...
Before I continue, I owe you all an apology for missing the last three days of the Festival...I had to go an play two chamber concerts in Germany and France that were scheduled before the festival...I was so gutted to leave...I really felt so empty suddenly without the shirts, atmosphere and buzz. But at least I was playing in Paris in the last two days of the Festival so I felt that I am supporting everyone by being there somehow....
Anyway, the Festival was so amazing I thought, and of course the theme of French music was right up my alley...I was especially happy with the response of the public to Varese's Density 21.5...it is always a question when programming modern music pieces since we are always afraid it will scare the public away....but judging from this experience, I am very optimistic!! Well done for everyone who ran the half marathon! I was so so sad for missing that as well as I am a jogger my self!
After that, as Marie wrote already we had our Beethoven recording. It is never really easy to describe how well those recordings go...so I won't even try....
As for now, I just came back from Germany where I played a project with Claudia in a chamber orchestra where we first met! It is always so amazing playing with her...
So, in the beginning of July Claudia and I are going to teach in a special festival in the Alps in Austria all dedicated to coaching chamber music for amateur musicians where we are going to play some concerts as well with the rest of the faculty members. Right after that I am off to the Netherlands to another chamber music festival where I am playing one concert for winds and strings where the main piece of the concert will be....how not Spohr Nonet!!
From the Netherlands I will be joining the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Barenboim in Salzburg where this year the orchestra is the resident orchestra of the famous Salzburg Festival. We will be touring for a month and a half (!?!!?!) in Europe which will probably be great fun but also so exhausting and I will miss Claudia a lot....
When this is over I will be going back home but also in Israel I will be playing in the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival for a week and then hopefully I will have some time off!!!!!!!!!
So this is how my summer is going to look...not much time off but loads of music!!
I will see you all back in Sheffield in October!
All my love,
Guy xxxx
