pAST performances & projects

Stars Like Sibilants Speak

2014 Ken Ueno's 30 minute work for two clarinets, sho, electronics with speaking parts and staging. Part ritual, part poetry. Here is a film version, directed by Sjaron Minalo, funded by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Podiumkunst. View trailer:

The Body Doesn't Lie

10 July 2018 11:00

International Clarinet Festival Ostend, Belgium

a recital featuring works for clarinet and text Laura Carmichael SOS Vivaldi Ig Henneman The Motion Caused
Hannah Lash California Orange

photo: MIchel Marang

photo: MIchel Marang


photo: Michel Marang

photo: Michel Marang

Harry Sparnaay Tribute Concert

10 June 2018 15:00, BIM Huis, Amsterdam

Many friends, family and former students pay tribute to our dear mentor, Harry Sparnaay


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sos vivaldi

23-24 FEB 2018 20:00

at Aker Stadt Palast, Berlin

A shipwreck, a flood, a myth inverted.
This intimate performace synthesizes text & instrument with mash-ups of marginalized voices, field recordings and classical references that dive deep into the wreckage of patriarchy.

A clarinetist who speaks, Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus RV608, a Syrian song, an Adrienne Rich's poem Diving into the Wreck.

With aditional music by:
Morris Rosenzweig 2005 and counting...Katrina
Ig Henneman The Motion Caused
Cindy Cox Shape of the Shell

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What if Arachne hadn't committed suicide? What if there was an Angel of Alternative History?

This is my response to coping with the longing to hear stories untold while living with the nostalgia, wreckage, violence and beauty of the classical, inherently male tradition.

Premiered April 2017 at University of California, Berkeley.


California ORANGE 

sOLO CONCERT APRIL 2017 HERTZ HALL

University of California, Berkeley

Featuring:
Ig Henneman The Motion Caused
Hannah Lash California Orange
Cindy Cox Shape of the Shell
Morris Rosenzweig 2005 and counting - Katrina
Julio Estrada Yuunohui'yei' Ehecatl


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