Horn Class with Pip Eastop

Byartsyhonker November 17, 2007 0 Comments
I've been busy again--but at least I've found somewhere to live, now. On Wednesday afternoon, Pip Eastop came to do a horn class with us.It was a bit of an unenthusiastic start, there was some orchestral music that had been set aside for working on but he didn't really want to do that and neither did any of us, so we worked on specific issues instead.Fluttertonguing:I've always had great...
Byartsyhonker November 3, 2007 0 Comments
Looooong time no post!I've been plodding along despite having a bad cold. I've been in 2 brass band concerts, a wind dectet concert, and, um, that's it, but lots of rehearsals for the Mbawula Sing! Africa concerts this Thursday and Friday. When that's over with I have another brass band, wind ensemble, and symphony orchestra. All the rehearsals have kept me off of the Aikido mat, which is...

UBS Verbier Orchestra

Byartsyhonker October 8, 2007 0 Comments
I'm considering auditioning for the UBS Verbier Orchestra in February. It's one of the few 'youth' orchestras that I'm still young enough to participate in, with an upper age limit of 29. I'm actually quite unlikely to succeed at such an audition, but it would be a good experience. I have many, many orchestral excerpts to learn for the end of year exams this year, and a February audition would be...

Introduction

Byartsyhonker October 4, 2007 0 Comments
I'm a student at Trinity College of Music, London, and I'm planning to use this blog for documentation of various musical and academic projects I'm involved with. If you look hard enough you can probably figure out who I am, but I'd really rather you didn't.It's the third week of classes this week and I'm enjoying things, so far. Improvisation classes on Wednesdays are a bit unstructured and I...