Basset horn / Clarinet / CHALUMEaUX
Eric Hoeprich
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Eric Hoeprich is a specialist in performing on historical clarinets, in music from the Baroque to the late Romantic. Educated at Harvard University (AB cum laude, 1976) and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, he was for decades on the faculties of the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and at Indiana University, Bloomington. A founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century (1982), Hoeprich performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra, as well as many of the major early music ensembles, under conductors such as Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe and Nicholas McGegan. Also a variety of other ensembles, such as the Akamus (Akademie für Alte Musik), Freiburger Barok, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Galicean Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, have invited him as a soloist. In the 1980s, he founded the wind ensemble, NACHTMUSIQUE, which toured around the world. His dozens of recordings are available on labels such as Deutsche Grammaphon, Philips, EMI, SONY, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa and Decca. Collaboration with string quartets, chamber ensembles and vocal soloists also feature regularly on his calendar. The recent release of clarinet quintets by Weber and Krommer with the London Haydn Quartet (Glossa), and the clarinet concertos by Carl Maria von Weber with the Orchestra of the 18th Century have received wide critical acclaim.
Recent press:
molten-gold tone… the high point was the radiant Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581, played by Hoeprich on a re-creation of an 18th-century basset clarinet. With its peculiar bulbous end, the thing looks downright cartoonish, but its sound just shimmers — and Hoeprich’s mastery of the piece made a perfect close to an altogether fascinating evening.
The real pleasure was in Hoeprich’s flawless technique and
An interest in historical clarinets has led to the publication of numerous articles, and a general text on the clarinet published by Yale University Press (The Clarinet, 2008). He has also contributed to The New Grove Dictionary. Hoeprich has collected over a hundred antique clarinets, including instruments from the eighteenth century, which has led to restoration and construction of replicas of period originals; he maintains a workshop for instrument making at his home near London.
– The Washington Post
Basset horn / Clarinet / CHALUMEaUX
Kayo Nishida
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Kayo Nishida (Hiroshima, Japan) graduated with a bachelor’s degree at the Kurashiki Sakuyo University in Japan, where she studied modern clarinet with Prof. Shuji Ashida. She continued her clarinet studies in Europe with Chen Halevi at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany. There, she studied the master program in historical clarinet as well as chalumeaux with Dr. Ernst Schlader. She completed her master in historical clarinet and chalumeaux at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (The Netherlands) with Eric Hoeprich.
Kayo has performed with many early music orchestras and ensembles in Europe and Japan including the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Concerto Köln, Bach Collegium Japan among others. She has worked with several acclaimed conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Jonathan Darlington and Kenneth Montgomery. She has performed Duo concertante of Iwan Müller as a solist with Les Agrémens.
Additionally, she has recorded several CDs with many of the orchestras and chamber music ensembles she has performed with.
Basset horn / Clarinet / CHALUMEaUX
Alejandro Fariña Martín
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Alejandro Fariña Martín was born in 1989 in Tenerife (Spain). He began to study clarinet when he was 8 years old in the conservatory of Tenerife, where he finished the intermediate degree with Celedonio Serrano.
In 2009 he was admitted in the Royal conservatory of Madrid. He studied clarinet with Adolfo Garcés and pedagogical studies with Antonio Torrado at the same time. He finished the bachelor in 2013. During this period he participated in some master classes with Fabio Di Càsola, Sergio Bossi, Philippe Berrod or Javier Martinez.
In 2014 he started to study master in clarinet in the Royal conservatory of The Hague with Pierre Woudenberg and the orchestral master with the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague as well.
In 2016 he started to be interested on historical informed performance practice. For this reason, he was admitted to study historical clarinets at the Koninklijk Conservatorium (The Hague) under the guidance of Eric Hoeprich. Also, he has received lessons from Lorenzo Coppola, Nicola Boud or Guy van Waas among others. He has played with different early music ensembles such as Orchestra of the 18th Century, Trondheim Barokk Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Prince, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Pygmalion Ensemble, Orkiestra Historyczna and La Academia de los Afectos. He has worked together with Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Daniel Reus, Raphaël Pichon, Kenneth Montgomery or Sir Roger Norrington.