Alex Klein

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Michele Fiala
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Focal Dystonia ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Chicago Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Artistic Director

Brazilian oboist Alex Klein won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra and first prize at the International Competition in Geneva, the New York International Oboe Competition, and the Fernand Gillet International Competition. From 1995 to 2004, Klein was principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a position he left after struggles with focal dystonia. He is currently artistic director of the Santa Catarina Music Festival (“FEMUSC”) in Brazil, principal oboe of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada, and oboe instructor at DePaul University. In this interview, Klein talks about his start in music, his teaching, and the combination of solo and orchestral performing in his career. He describes his brand of “musical activism” and his mindset while playing. He offers ideas for developing technique and shares his difficulties with focal dystonia. Klein offers advice on the use of air and vibrato and shares memorable experiences.

Anna Clyne The Seamstress, Barbican Hall, London; Anna Clyne This Lunar Beauty, Wigmore Hall, London

Tempo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (277) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
Robert Stein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

‘Old mythologies’ have been important for some time to Anna Clyne, and they come into play again in two of her most recent works: the violin concerto The Seamstress and her brief Auden setting, This Lunar Beauty, for soprano and ensemble. The young British composer (b. 1980) has for many years been a resident of New York; she studied with Julia Wolfe in Manhattan and since 2010 has been the composer in association with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

scholarly journals Mrs. J.B. Carmichael and the Edmonton Civic Opera Society, 1935-1971

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Wesley Berg ◽  
Gerry Paulson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Music Students ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director

Born in Indiana and trained as a singer, violinist, and conductor in Chicago and New York, Beatrice van Loon travelled to Edmonton, Alberta, in the fall of 1920 as the leader of an all-female ensemble. She married a local dentist and as Mrs. J.B. Carmichael played in the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and conducted an orchestra at the University of Alberta until 1934. She founded the Edmonton Civic Opera Society in 1935 and worked as its artistic director until her death in 1964. For more than four decades she gave unstintingly of herself to audiences and music students in her adopted city.

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