JONATHAN SAGE | CLARINET – - IRISH TOUR

This coming November Ergodos will present young, up-and-coming English clarinetist Jonathan Sage in a tour of Ireland.

The diverse and exciting tour programme features specially-commissioned works for clarinet and electronics by English composer Alex Harker and prize-winning Irish composer Jonathan Nangle; music for basset clarinet (an 18th-century extended clarinet) by Scottish composer William Sweeney and Irish composer Garrett Sholdice; miniatures by Irish composer Amanda Feery and American clarinetist-composers Evan Ziporyn (of NYC’s Bang-On-A-Can All Stars) and William O. Smith; as well as pillars of contemporary solo clarinet repertoire such as Elliot Carter’s Gra and movements from the late Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Amour.

At the age of 23, Sage already has an impressive track record as a contemporary-music-specialising clarinetist, having performed widely as a soloist and ensemble-member and premiered several solo clarinet pieces specially composed for him. His very considerable technical skill, mastery of many extended techniques and openness to sonic experimentation make him an ideal interpreter of new music. Sage already has a strong relationship with the contemporary music of Ireland, having premiered specially-composed pieces by Irish composers Amanda Feery and Garrett Sholdice and performed in a Chimera Ensemble performance of Donnacha Dennehy’s Junk Box Fraud, the first such performance of the work by an ensemble other than Dennehy’s own Crash Ensemble.

This tour will present the clarinet as you have never heard it before.

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October 23rd, 2008 admin
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