Par BOULESTREAU GEORGES. 9782849263297 / Date parution : 2014-07-01/ Répertoire / Flûte et Clarinette

For Flute and Bb Clarinet-12 familiar favourites for Flute and B Flat Clarinet arranged by Daniel Dorff.

The First Volume of Duets for Flute and Clarinet by Himie Voxman. With numbers 1 to 55 and featuring duets of easy to medium difficulty this collection gives budding developing Clarinet and Flute players plenty of exciting and enjoyable material to play together improving technique tone quality intonation and giving experience and confidence in an intimate ensemble environment. It is a tremondous selection with pieces by the master composers and lesser known or anonymous composers. Volume 2 contains advanced duets numbers 56 to 78.

Dieter Ammann was born in Aarau Switzerland in 1962. He grew up in a very musical family. After secondary school he began a course in school music at the Akademie für Schul- und Kirchenmusik in Lucerne. At the same time he studied for several semesters at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. After this he worked for a period as a musician in improvised music and jazz. He has performed at international festivals including Cologne Willisau Antwerp and Lugano. Recordings and studio sessions brought him into contact with diverse artists such as Eddie Harris and Udo Lindenberg. He then took a degree in theory and composition at the Musikakademie Basel and attended master classeswith Wolfgang Rihm and Witold Lutoslawski.In the 1990s the main focus of Ammann?s work changed to composition. He has received numerous national and international prizes for his orchestral and chamber music works (including from the Aargauer Kuratorium the main prize in the International Composition Competition of the IBLA Foundation New York the Franz Liszt Scholarship awarded by the European Capital of Culture Weimar first prize in the Young Composers in Europe Competition Leipzig and Composers? Prize for Composition from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Munich 2008). In 2010 he was composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival and in 2013 at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker as well as 2015 at the Festival reMusic in St. Petersburg. His orchestral works have been conducted by Pierre Boulez Valery Gergiev Jonathan Nott Peter Rundel Peter Hirsch and Jürg Henneberger. Ammann is Professor of Theory and Composition at the Lucerne School of Music and a lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts.