Buffet Crampon's - International Clarinet Association

No. 19: Roslyn Dunlop
electronics program and shared the stage
with Masashi Togame (Japan) and Roslyn
Dunlop (Australia) (see photo 19). Of
course, no clarinet and electronic recital
would be complete without the presence of
F. Gerard Errante, and the program titled
“I.C.A. Awardee Recital Clarion Synthesis”
honored this clarinetist. Errante, past
president of the I.C.A., performed with
clarinetist, pianist, and new music supporter
D. Gause-Snelson. Of particular interest
was a world premiere of Gause-Snelson’s
Desert Dawning (clarinets’ prerecorded
electronics and color video). A resident of
Las Vegas, she took the pictures herself
from practically her own backyard (see
photo 20).
The festival’s final concert was sponsored
by Buffet Crampon in honor of its
180th anniversary, and it was a special
event. Mozart’s Divertimento Nr. 3 was
the first work on this concert performed by
the young and promising Japanese trio
Hirotaka Ito, Kenji Matsumoto and Yoshinobu
Kamei. The performance was
lovely. Ronald van Spaendonck (Belgium)
next performed Horovitz’s Sonatina. Masaharu
Yamamoto and Seiki Shinohe (Japan)
followed with Studien für den Pedal-
Flügel by Schumann (see photo 21), and
Guy Deplus performed the fun Weber
(Küffner?) Introduction, Themes et Variation
(see photo 22). Mendelssohn’s Concertpiece
No. 1 performed by Tadayoshi
Takeda (Japan) and Ronald van Spaendonck
followed. At the end of the first part,
Koichi Hamanaka, president of the Japan
Clarinet Society and a leading Japanese
clarinetist, played Perspective en Spirale
by Akira Miyoshi, the representative Japanese
contemporary composer. After the
intermission, Michel Arrignon (France)
played Jean-Michel Ferran’s Apsaras. This
brought the ClarinetFest® 2005, the first
ever held in Asia, to an end (see photo 23).
No. 20: D. Gause Snelson and F. Gerard Errante
No. 21: Masaharu Yamamoto and Seiki Shinohe during the Festival Finale Concert
No. 22: Guy Deplus during the Festival Finale Concert
In addition to all of the wonderful
events that took place during the convention,
it is also necessary to thank the
exhibitors for their support. Without their
attendance, the conference would not be
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