Earlier this month I gave a workshop on improvisation and Deep Listening in Akureyri. The group of flute students age 10-18 from Akureyri and vicinity, it was a lot of fun. In this picture we are playing Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros.
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Frábært að heimsækja flautunemendur norðan heiða og kynna þá fyrir djúphlustunartækni í anda Pauline Oliveros og vinna með þeim að spuna. Á myndinni erum við að baða áhorfendur upp úr Samstillingaríhugun Pauline Oliveros.
One of the things I really enjoy as a professor at the IAA is working with students on their music. Here is a documentation of a work in progress by Bart Bruinsma who was an exhange student (from Groningen) in the spring. It was such a pleasure working with Bart and he taught me how to fall - see two minutes into the video!
Happy to share this, it's "only" been six years since Tiffany DuMouchelle (voice), Pablo Gómez Cano (guitar) and I premiered this wonderful piece by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir.
Rain (2010) by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir for soprano, flute, guitar & electronics A recording from the world premiere of Rain by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. The performance took place at University of California, San Diego, Sunday, February 27, 2011. Tiffany DuMouchelle, voice Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flute Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar
Below are three postcards from a performance of Variations II by John Cage. Performed at Hugarflug -- with Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir.
Here is a short video from a rehearsal last Friday in Mengi. The fellow who is playing with me is Stephen Dorocke who plays the very lovely instrument Resophone. You can listen to it here. Our show last Friday in Mengi also featured double bass player Julian Thayer, who also does interesting stuff in other fields.
So honored to be a part of this team, a post concert picture, John and his former and current students.
I enjoyed playing A Time That Is Also a Place by Scott Worthington in Mengi on December 23. Below is a short excerpt:
The concerto for Lokkur and Orchestra by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson was premiered during Nordic Music Days. Here is a recording from the concert, available until January 2017. Performed by Caput Ensemble along with myself on Lokkur.