Contrabass Clarinet and Houvenaghel´s Organ, integrating a new member into my clarinet family
Project leader:
Rolf Borch
Project period:
2011
– 2015
Research centre:
NordART
Approach:
Artistic research
Topic:
Instrument innovation,
Performance practice,
Contemporary music
Fellowship project
Ph.D. in Artistic Research
Borch has explored the relatively rarely used contrabass clarinet. He has comissioned and performed new works by Lene Grenager, Knut Vaage, Jon Øivind Ness, Helmut Oehring and Gérard Grisey among others.
Two of the project's final results are the recordings Houvenagel’s Organ and the book Contrabass Clarinet. Orchestral excerpts and a brief history, published as part of the NMH publications series.
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