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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Royal Academy of Music
New compositions for the Howarth-Redgate Oboe
Extensive collaborations with a number of composers, and the premiere performances of a series of new works for the Howarth-Redgate Oboe are presented as a single research output. The collaborations had two aims: to test the capabilities (particularly in the areas of multiphonics, microtones, and the altissimo register) of the new instrument; and to discover and unlock hidden potential built into the new instrument.
Compositions submitted for this output:
Sam Hayden: surface/tension (ensemble version). First performed by Christopher Redgate and Cikada Ensemble, Huddersfield Festival, 18 November 2012 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
David Gorton: Austerity Measures II for Howarth-Redgate oboe and string quartet. First performed by Christopher Redgate and the Kreutzer Quartet, Wilton’s Music Hall, 12 June 2013.
Brian Ferneyhough: Schatten aus Wasser und Stein for Howarth-Redgate oboe and string quartet. First performed by Christopher Redgate and Quatour Diotima, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 17 November 2013.
Other collaborations include:
Richard Barrett: Fold for solo Howarth-Redgate oboe. First performed at the Harwich Festival, 19 June 2012.
Sam Hayden: surface/tension for Howarth-Redgate oboe and piano. First performed by Christopher Redgate and Stephen Robbings (piano), Schott’s Music Room, London, 27 July 2012.
Dorothy Ker: Clepsydra for solo Howarth-Redgate oboe. First performed at the Royal Northern College of Music, 11 November 2012.
Fabrice Fitch: Agricola IXc for solo Howarth-Redgate oboe. First performed at the Royal Academy of Music, 28 January 2013.
Work on the collaborations appears in the following:
Gorton, David, and Redgate, Christopher, ‘Austerity Measures and Rich Rewards’ in Kathleen Coessens, ed., The (Re)Sounding Experiment (Leuven, forthcoming).
Hooper, Michael, ‘The Start of Performance’, presented at Performance Studies Network Conference, University of Cambridge, July 2011.
Redgate, Christopher, ‘Creating New Music for a Redesigned Instrument’, in Mine Dogatan Dack, ed., Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Aldershot, 2014).
