Improvisation in the F# Lydian scale by Jeffrey Agrell (French Horn) & Werner Elmker (Piano) [HQ]

Описание: Improvisation in the F# Lydian scale by Jeffrey Agrell (French Horn) & Werner Elmker (Piano)

Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, Fairfield, Iowa • March 17, 2015:

Jeffrey Agrell (French Horn) & Werner Elmker (Piano) met for the first time and recorded several improvisations without any prior rehearsals or planning. This video features an improvisation on the F# Lydian scale.

Video produced by Werner Elmker Audio-Visual Studio • elmker.com

About the performers:

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell joined the faculty of the University of Iowa in 2000 after a first career as Associate Principal Horn of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. He has degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Madison-Wisconsin, with further study at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Musicales in Montreux and at the Basel Conservatory in Switzerland. Professor Agrell has won awards as both a writer and composer, with over one hundred published articles and many compositions published, recorded on CD, and performed on concerts stage, competitions, and festivals, and broadcast on radio and TV worldwide. He has completed two terms on the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. Summers he is on the faculty of the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp, and has been on the faculty of the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong. He frequently gives concerts, workshops, and lectures nationally and internationally. With his broad range of interests and abilities, Jeffrey Agrell is a “hornist for all seasons.” As a performer/educator he has performed and taught the full gamut of horn literature, including the repertoire for symphony orchestra, opera, musicals, ballet, operetta, solo and chamber music, while stretching personal artistic boundaries beyond the orchestra as a composer, writer, clinician, recording artist, and solo performer.
Website: jeffreyagrell.com

In performance of classical as well as original music, Danish concert pianist and composer Werner Elmker emphasizes the importance of improvisation as the main source of all great music. Improvised music is 'fresh'  music created in the moment, and often gives a stronger experience than music notated on paper. Most of the great composers used improvisation during recitals and composing. Like the classical masters, Mr. Elmker improvises in his own tonal language which finds its origin in previous styles of classical music. He utilizes free improvisation, improvisation on original melodies, classical themes, folk songs, and film music. Through performances, CDs, radio programs and education, he seeks to reinvigorate the lost art of classical improvisation. Based on his mastery in the areas of music, photography, video and graphic design, he was presented with an award from the Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association as the 2012 Fairfield Entertainer of the Year: “For an individual who’s creativity in multiple art forms has not only enriched the Fairfield community but also changed the way we look at ourselves”. He holds a doctoral level degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Royal Danish Music Conservatory and has published 15 piano CDs of classical & original music and 6 books of the Elmker Piano Method. He is the producer of 'The Classical Music Guide', a radio show featuring Werner Elmker's piano performance and narration and is appointed by the Iowa Arts Council (U.S.A.) on their roster of top performing artists. He was a music professor at Maharishi University of Management for 12 years creating and directing a Music Department and an Ethnomusicology Institute and has more than 30 years experience of music teaching. Since 1988 he has be engaged in training, research, and performance of Dhrupad, the ancient vocal music of India.
Website: elmker.com