Engaging with the natural notes
of the (French) horn
The Brass Whisperer's main aim is to play with subtle music tunings and coax brass players (and other musicians) into achieving delicious harmonies. Resources for student French horn players are also featured.
Performing Jacob Elkin's Microtone Dream #2 Peter Thoegersen's Skullen a Coldie at the Servo wM8ts - Michael Hugh Dixon horn, Gregory van der Struik trombone Michael Hugh Dixon's The Soul Will Hear - Wendy Dixon soprano, Michael Hugh Dixon horn, Annalisa Solinas horn, Gergely Malyusz horn, Gregory van der Struik trombone.
Online
Live stream performance of 'Seek A Lowly Place' 'A Hundred Valleys, middle section' 'Rivers & Seas' as a three movement work for solo horn with pre-recorded horn ensemble.
Notos Woodwind Quintet inaugural concert. We play historical instruments of the classical period.
I am grateful to have been born into a musical family, hearing my older sisters and my dad practising. All five of us kids learnt piano from mum’s mum. Dad taught all the brass, we all tried strings, my brother and I drumming. I took to the trumpet, then french horn and composed in my teens. All of this in Auckland. I wanted to play in orchestras professionally, dropping out of school to do that in Sydney. I love rhythm and also love finding good tuning and playing in small groups. This evolved to a fascination with microtones, playing them and getting others to play them especially in lovely harmonies. I teach, as well, and some of my students kind of get my interest in intonation.
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