Op.19 Suite for Heckelphone & Piano "Part II - Hungarian Dance"
Channel: Anıl Altınsoy
Date: 2024-02-10

There are a few works in the world of the Heckelphone, a member of the Oboe family, which emerged during his visit to Wilhelm Heckel in line with the ideas of Richard Wagner and was developed with the efforts of Wilhelm Heckel and his sons.

It is noteworthy that it sounds the written notes an octave higher, its deep sound field is similar to Bassoon, and its thin sound field is almost the same as English Horn. She has solos in Paul Hindemith's "Trio for Heckelphone" as well as Richard Wagner's "Elektra", "An Alpine Symphony" and "Josephslegende".

 "Czardas", the Second Part of this work called "Op.20 Suite for Heckelphone & Piano", composed for Margaret Friederich in 2024 and played by her, is a Hungarian Dance with a slow and fast section. It was performed in Heidelberg and accompanied by Eiko Yamada on Piano.

MARGARET FRIEDERICH: Woodwind Instruments (Rarities)

Born in 1960 in Chatham, England
1969 First recorder lessons
1971 oboe lessons with John Bessel; from 1976 with Brian Skinner
1973 to 1978 oboist with various orchestras, including the Rochester Arts Orchestra
Studied music from 1978 to 1980 at Trinity College of Music London
Recorder with Edgar Hunt
Oboe with Stephan Nagy and Tamara Coates
Since 1980 she has been an instrumental teacher for oboe and recorder at the Heidelberg Music and Singing School
Freelance musician: specializing in Heckelphone
Engagements as a Heckelphonist in Berlin, Luxembourg and Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Founding member of the Pifferari di Santo Spirito in 1988

EIKO YAMADA: Keyboard Instruments (Spinet, Stage Piano) -

Born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan
1962 began musical training in piano, later in singing and recorder
1975 -1982 studied music and music education at Yokohama National University
1979 -1981 Study stay at the Berlin University of the Arts as a scholarship holder from the Japanese Ministry of Culture (for the winter semester and summer semester 1979/80)
Her piano teachers included Prof. Sumire Hoshino, Runako Takata - wife of the composer Prof. Saburō Takata - and Doris Wagner-Dix
1982-1984 teaching music teacher at schools in Tokyo
1984-1985 further training in the field of creative music education and music didactics with a focus on new music with Margret Küntzel-Hansen and Prof. Gottfried Küntzel in Lüneburg.
In 1985 he met the violinist Lilli Friedemann and began to explore free improvisation
1985-1991 teaching at the Tempelhof Music School in Berlin in the subjects of piano and early musical education.
1986-1991 Private postgraduate studies in piano with Prof. Hans Reichert
In 1986 the experimental music group ExTempore was founded in Berlin, together with Matthias Schwabe and Herwig von Kieseritzky. Numerous performances in musical performance and based on space-related concepts
1992 move to Heidelberg
Since 1994 teaching piano at the Heidelberg Music and Singing School
Continuous international concert activity as an improvising, experimental musician, in Heidelberg with Mani Neumeier or Jochen Sattler. Member of, among others, Ensemble X, Quintet RIMARO and the intermedia project “KUSO”.
Several CD documentations.

You can find information about the "Pifferari di Santo Spirito" Orchestra, of which the artists are members, from the link below.

www.pifferari.de