【口琴汇--业界资讯】Chromatic Weekend June 18th - 20th, 2021
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Celebration of the Chromatic Harmonica - Chromatic Weekend
June 18th - 20th, 2021
半音阶口琴周，将于6月18-20日在网上举行
https://www.harmonicauk.com/
Virtual Chromatic Weekend - A Celebration of the Chromatic Harmonica
Running Order：
Friday 18th June
6:00 pm - Open and Introduction
6:30 pm - Phil Hopkins
8:00 pm - Slim Heilpern
9:15 pm - Chromatic Jam
Saturday 19th June
12:00 midday - Cy Leo
1:15 pm trade stall - Seydel
2:15 pm - Hermine Deurloo
3:30 pm Rick Epping
5:00 pm - Filip Jers
6:30 pm - Thaddeus Hogarth
7:45 pm - Chromatic Jam
Sunday 20th June
11:30 am - Isabella Krapf
12:45 pm trade stall - Hohner
1:30 pm - Dror Adler
2:45 pm - raffle draw
3:30 pm - Olivier Ker Ourio
3:30 pm (in breakout room) Rick Epping
5:00 pm - Enrico Granafei
6:30 pm - Will Galison
7:45 pm - Closing remarks
Masterclass Leaders - in alphabetical order
Dror Adler
Sunday 20th June at 1:30 pm
Dror Adler started out in a duo with his brother, Danny, in 1962, and The Adler Trio was born in 1963, playing mostly light classical. The Trio performed at top festivals for 52 years becoming one of the best known harmonica groups. Dror produced Most of the arrangements, and played chord.
Dror’s sound innovations had revolutionized harmonica groups sound, and his microphones for Chromatic and bass harmonicas are used by the world’s top harmonica ensembles today.
The Adler Trio disbanded in 2015, and today, Dror is performing as a chromatic soloist.
Cy Leo
Saturday 19th June at 12:00 midday
Cy Leo (Ho Cheuk-yin) is a chromatic harmonica virtuoso, composer and singer-song writer. By the age of 19, he had garnered 17 international titles, including Solo World Champion twice at the World Harmonica Festival 2009 and 2013. He has toured over 70 cities since his graduation from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2016. He has collaborated with local and international stars including Joey Yung, Ruel, Ichika and Cory Wong.
In 2021, Leo was awarded a full scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club Music And Dance Fund to study at New York University master program of Jazz Performance.
Hermine Deurloo
Saturday 19th June at 2:15 pm
Hermine Deurloo,born and bred in Amsterdam, was smitten by the jazz bug at an early age. After completing her alto saxophone studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory she received a chromatic harmonica as a present and was hooked.
She is in demand as a soloist and session musician, having played on various film soundtracks. Hermine has played with the Metropole Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and with distinguished musicians such as Toots Thielemans, and others.
She has toured the world in the last seven years as a member of the Willem Breuker Kollectief, giving worldwide concerts and releasing CDs and DVDs.
Rick Epping
Masterclass.
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June at 3:30 pm
Rick will be bringing his expertise to the Chromatic Weekend over two sessions. He will show participants how to service their chromatic harmonicas and will cover any topics raised by the attendees.
Rick Epping is a Californian who now lives on the west coast of Ireland, where he has submerged himself in the traditional music of the Emerald Isle.
Rick was the Harmonica Product Manager for Hohner USA for 18 years and played a pivotal role in rejuvenating the quality of their harmonicas. While at Hohner, he also developed the XB40, the all-bending harmonica.
Rick is an expert customiser of harmonicas and is the 'father of embossing’, after he came up with the idea of reducing reed clearances to improve the responsiveness and volume from the instrument. He has just released a series of harmonica maintenance videos on YouTube.
Will Galison
Sunday 20th June at 6:30 pm
Will Galison is an American jazz musician, best known as a harmonica player. He is also a producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Raised in New York City, he switched from classical piano to guitar at age eight, inspired by the Beatles. Discovering jazz in high school, he went on to Berklee College of Music in Boston where he took up the harmonica.
With Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder as role models, he has performed at the Village Gate and Blue Note clubs with legends Jaco Pastorius and Jaki Byard, and led his own group at Preacher’s Cafe in Greenwich Village. Will has played with Sting, Carly Simon and more and performed Gordon Jacob’s “Suite for Harmonica and Orchestra”. He recorded soundtracks for films such as The Untouchables and Baghdad Café. His harmonica is also heard on television and in countless commercials.
Enrico Granafei
Sunday 20th June at 5:00 pm
Enrico plays guitar and sings in addition to playing harmonica. He studied classical guitar in Italy in the 1970s before taking up the harmonica and discovering jazz. This led him to move to New York where he played in clubs such as The Blue Note and Birdland before earning a Masters’ degree in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music where he was the only student of Toots Thielemans. Enrico has performed extensively in festivals and clubs in Europe and the US as well as recording with many top jazz players. He is one of the best-known players of the Hands-Free Chromatic Harmonica.
Slim (Slide Man) Heilpern
Friday 18th June at 8:00 pm
Pure Acoustic Recording techniques
California-based multi-instrumentalist Slim Heilpern (AKA Slide Man Slim) began his chromatic harmonica journey in 1959 at age 5 and has played the instrument professionally since 1978 both on the road and in the studio. Along the way he’s been featured on the main stage at SPAH on multiple occasions and produced the 2009 West Coast Jazz Harmonica Summit concert and DVD. He currently enjoys performing and recording with Penny Hanna, his partner in musical crime for the last 48 years.
Phil Hopkins
Friday 18th June at 6:30 pm
Phil had chromatic lessons with Tommy Reilly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then he has played harmonica for many London theatre productions including Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre), Gone With The Wind (New London Theatre), From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre) and the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (Donmar Warehouse).
Phil has played harmonica in many different settings including the ITV show This Morning, in concert with the London Sinfonietta, on tour in the USA with Phil Coulter and Liam Clancy, and on CD with Leon Redbone. He plays in the UK jazz group The Toots Project.
Thaddeus Hogarth
Saturday 19th June at 6:30 pm
Thaddeus Hogarth was born in England and raised in St. Kitts, West Indies. A multi-instrumentalist he brings a diverse set of musical influences. As an original recording artist, he leads a The Thaddeus Hogarth Band in delivering a collection of serious funk-rock R&B tunes that make you stop, listen and groove. His chromatic harmonica playing, is reminiscent of early era Stevie Wonder. Thaddeus is author of the Berklee Chromatic Harmonica Method: Foundations for Jazz.
Filip Jers
Saturday 19th June at 5:00 pm
Filip Jers received his Master Degree of Fine Arts in jazz from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 2011. He was the first harmonica player ever to study there. He became double world champion on harmonica at the age of 18 at World Harmonica Festival 2005 in Trossingen, Germany. Since then he has worked as freelance musician, with studio sessions and teaching harmonica.
Olivier Ker Ourio
Sunday 20th June at 3:30 pm
Paris-based musician, composer, band leader, and highly-regarded soloist, Olivier Ker Ourio has established himself as one of the world’s premiere chromatic jazz harmonica players. Acclaimed by critics as the true inheritor of Toots Thielemans, OKO is a highly demanded soloist as much as a great composer and project leader.
His compositions on his 11 albums combine lyrical melodies with invigorating rhythms and inventive harmonies. Emotionally expressive, warm and inviting, Ker Ourio’s music is committed, fresh, and melodic — and above all, straight from the heart. His latest album, “Singular Insularity”, was released in 2020.
Isabella Krapf
Sunday 20th June at 11:30 am
Isabella was already fascinated by the chromatic harmonica as a child. Although she has learned the piano, percussion and singing, her main interest has always been chromatic harmonica. She has been teaching the instrument since 1997 and played weekly concerts before Covid. She has played in the large Musikvereinssaal, in the Wiener Konzerthaus, and also in Chicago and North Korea. One of her students became world champion in 2013 at the World Harmonica Festival in Trossingen.