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SOUTH KOREA EXPERIENCE – PART 1: MUSIC
MAHLER’S 7TH AND MOVING SEAFOOD- 2016 SOUTH KOREA EXPERIENCE Back in 2001 I did an audition (can’t remember whether it was taped or live) for a position in the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra – then one of the world’s leading youth orchestras. I was 16 and in great shape on my trumpet. The programme for…
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SOUTH KOREA EXPERIENCE – PART 2: FOOD
MAHLER’S 7TH AND MOVING SEAFOOD – THE 2016 SOUTH KOREA EXPERIENCE PART 2 PART 2: FOOD My love for Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea and their wonderful people, culture, civilization and – last but not least – food, made it hard if not impossible to refuse the offer to go to South Korea. I took…
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TASTING THE BRASS BAND WORLD
TASTING THE BRASS BAND WORLD – A NEW CHALLENGE On April 9, 2016, I will be the guest soloist for a Brass Band in Switzerland, the Ensemble de Cuivres “Ambitus”, for their anniversary celebration concert. On this occasion, I was asked by François Roh, their conductor and himself a virtuoso cornet player, to select a…