Know Your Clarinet
Learn more about the instrument and some of the best woodwind works written by Mozart
With the beautiful mellow sound and graceful tone it can offer, the clarinet is always being regarded as the most expressive woodwind instrument. In this all-Mozart programme, world-renowned clarinet master from Juilliard School, Charles Neidich, will perform on different types of clarinets. With Yip Wing-sie and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, he will also talk about the music, the instruments and his insights into clarinet playing.
The concerts will be held on:
26 September 2009 (Sat) 7:30pm & 27 September 2009 (Sun) 3pm
HK City Hall Concert Hall.
Tickets: $220, $150, $100
Mozart – The pioneer of the clarinet repertoire
Among all the works that Mozart composed, some of the most beautiful were those for the clarinet. The prodigious composer was in fact a great pioneer of the clarinet repertoire. At that time, the clarinet had just appeared a few decades earlier. The extraordinarily refined, mellow tone of the clarinet must have charmed Mozart so much that he wrote a number of great works for it that subsequently influenced the course of the instrument’s history. At the “Know Your Clarinet” concert, Hong Kong Sinfonietta will be performing an all-Mozart programme that will include The Magic Flute Overture, Divertimento for 3 Basset-Horns in B-flat, Serenade No 12 in C minor and Concerto in A for Basset Clarinet.
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Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Know Your Clarinet
Music director/ Conductor/ Presenter: Yip Wing-sie
Basset Clarinet/ Basset-Horn/ Presenter: Charles Neidich
26 September 2009 (Sat) 7:30pm
27 September 2009 (Sun) 3pm
HK City Hall Concert Hall.
Tickets: $220, $150, $100
An all-Mozart Programme
The Magic Flute Overture, K620
Divertimento for 3 Basset-Horns in B-flat, KA229 No 1
Serenade No 12 in C minor, K388
Concerto in A for Basset Clarinet, K622
Charles Neidich Basset Clarinet/Basset-Horn/Presenter
“A master of his instrument and beyond.” The New Yorker
Clarinet master Charles Neidich is not only a sought-after soloist and chamber musician but is also in demand for his innovative lecture concerts and masterclasses. Apart from being on the faculties of leading conservatories such as the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music, he teaches regularly at the prestigious Weimar Masterclasses in Germany, the Internationale Stichting Masterclass in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and the Marlboro and Sarasota Festivals in the USA. Neidich is a leading exponent of period instrument performance practice and has performed his restoration of the Mozart Concerto throughout the world both on modern and period instruments. Neidich’s many recordings are available on various labels such as the DG, Sony and Hyperion.
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