The 5th International Theobald Böhm Competition for Flute and Alto Flute will take place from Monday 7 March to Wednesday 10 March 2022 in the Kleiner Konzertsaal of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in the Arcisstraße 12. The entrance to the competition and to the winner’s concert on 10 March 2022 at 18.00 is free.
Until a few decades ago, if you wanted to record a piece for solo flute or for a musical ensemble, you had to go to a recording studio, pay for the room, equipment and technicians, and wait several days for our recording.
In fact, few were the musicians who could afford this “luxury”: for most, it was simply a dream.
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This Sonata was written in Alma Ata during the painful years of the Second World War. Performed for the first time in 1943 by the flutist Charkovsky, “accompanied” on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter, the composer subsequently made a version for violin and piano, in collaboration with David Oistrakh. The piece still represents today an authentic masterpiece of the…
This text tells of a discovery, which took place a few years ago on the island of Stromboli: a case of vintage records, which belonged to a family of emigrants. The Tesoriero family had emigrated in the early twentieth century to the United States and Australia. One day, in ’48, Giuseppe Tesoriero sent a case of records as a…
The poet must begin with a poetic vision and then use the influential figures of speech, various forms of rhythm, cadence, alliteration, repetition, assonance, and consonance to obtain an adequate embodiment of this vision in terse form, which displays qualities very similar to music. The connection between music and poetry is solid and undeniable.
What value can we find today in Moyse’s legacy as a player and teacher for today’s flutists and wind players? As it turns out, there is plenty for us today in his legacy as a player, in the myriad accounts of his teaching, and in the many books he published.
One of the composers of our time who has been – within all his extraordinary musical heritage – one of the most important musical representatives who has made a great diffusion of this nationalist current with a very personal style is, without a doubt, the maestro Alejandro Núñez Allauca (Moquegua, 1943) and his contribution to the world of the…
Most of us musicians are highly self-critical. That tends to lead to worry, anxiety, and often pain, because pain and anxiety are inextricably linked. I call it “PainXiety.” And I see it every day with students from all over the world.
English multifaceted composer of the 19th century. Paladina of women’s rights boasts a catalog that embraces multiple compositional genres. She was a significant voice of the 19th century British and European music.
di Onorio Zaralli Excerpt from Onorio Zaralli’s book “Playing with the soul” ©2017 Conoscere è una esigenza dell’uomo. Ignorare è un bisogno dell’uomo. La differenza è chiara: conosco, quando ho esigenza di imparare e di crescere liberamente; ignoro, se ho bisogno di nascondere, se preferisco “conservare” piuttosto che rischiare di perdermi nella libertà. Bene: per quanto riguarda l’universo emotivo,…
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