Following the success of our inaugural concert back in November 2017, the Whiteknights Ensemble is currently rehearsing for a second concert in July this year, to be held at Leighton Park, Peckover Hall. The date and venue are fixed, but we have yet to confirm other details, including the programme. It is likely, however, that…
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18 November 2017: Inaugural concert of the Whiteknights Ensemble
Earlier this year some of my musical friends and I got together to form the Whiteknights Ensemble, and our inaugural concert is now only three weeks away! We’ll be performing as a wind quintet and the programme comprises works by Mozart, Ligeti, Cambini, Nielsen and Patterson. Based in Earley, Reading, the Whiteknights Ensemble takes its name…
A music practice room of one's own
The music practice rooms I used to visit on an almost daily basis are now permanently closed and out of use, and this presented me with an enormous problem: where to practise? I live in a terraced house and the walls are very thin. Not only that, but my Significant Other is an academic and he spends…
Developing Your Eye, Day 8: Treasure
Today’s image shows my latest treasure: a baroque oboe d’amore. It’s a copy of an instrument invented in the eighteenth century, and this particular oboe was made by Paul Hailperin in 1997. I’ve only played on modern instruments up until now and playing a period oboe d’amore presents a challenge to say the very least: I’m more or…
My new toy: a piccolo shelf!
My latest acquisition is a piccolo shelf and it is brilliant. I pinched the idea from some musical friends, to whom I offer my most sincere thanks. A piccolo shelf is a small shelf which is attachable to your music stand, and flautists use it for their piccolos (hence the name). Now, it has dawned…
