The International Clarinet Association’s annual ClarinetFest was 22-26 July 2015, this time in Madrid. My first year attending was 2013 in Assisi, where I came as a spectator, but ended up performing with the European Clarinet Association ensemble. Last year was in Baton Rouge, where I performed Stockhausen’s Solo fur Melodieinstrument und Rückkopplung.
This year I performed with my new ensemble, Shadanga Duo. We played part of our program from our concert in Århus last December, which consisted of the Elliott Carter Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, and two of our new commissions, Louis Aguirre’s Yalodde Yeyé Kari and Hannes Kerschbaumer’s gryet.debris. Even though we had performed it before, with four times more pieces as well, it was still quite a challenging program.
