Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
Summary: There’s a fascinating variety to a life in music; this series features wonderful musicians worldwide with in-depth conversations and great music. Many episodes feature guests playing music spontaneously as part of the episode or sharing performances and albums. The inspiration and connection found in a meaningful creative life, the challenges faced, and the stories from such a diversity of people will draw you into this weekly series, with many topics that will resonate with all listeners. Available also as video and transcript: https://www.leahroseman.com/about
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Free improvisation (in fact, any style of improv) is very new to both of us, but we had fun with this little back-and-forth across Zoom. This is a bonus episode connected to my fascinating interview with Karen, Episode 9 Season 1. All the links for information about Karen are in the main Episode 9: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e9-s1-karen-donnelly-trumpet-player photo credit: Fred Cattroll --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
Karen Donnelly is the Principal Trumpet player of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, and a well-known educator. In this episode, we get to hear Karen's beautiful playing, and I talk to her about her background, her work with the Canadian Women's Brass Collective , some of her unique outreach work and her resilient practice routine! There's also a bonus episode in this playlist on this channel in which you can hear us do a free improvisation. https://canadianwomensbrasscollective...Here's Karen in a fanfare she wrote: https://youtu.be/srJjP1VHNjg https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/karen-donnelly https://arts.uottawa.ca/music/people/... The video versions for all of these conversations can be found on my YouTube channel ViolinLessonOnline, in a dedicated playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOGF0ZHOdI0236QiDT_SGzUdALNXW06z Photo credit: Fred Cattroll --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
I was thrilled to have this fascinating conversastion with virtuoso violinist Kerson Leong, who is as eloquent in his musicality as in the way he talks about music and violin playing. I trust that a broad audience will take inspiration from this wide-ranging discussion. At the beginning, we are treated to an impromptu performance of Ysayë's Allemande from Violin Sonata no. 4. This conversation was recorded June 15, 2021 over Zoom. Kerson has many upcoming performances, all of which can be found on his website here: https://kersonleong.com/ The original video version is here: https://youtu.be/oW_xuHc_6v8 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
After my conversation with Alexis Chartrand, during which we are treated to 3 of his poetic interpretations of traditional tunes, he agreed to do a little improvisation with me. To hear lots more of Alexis and learn all about him, see the notes for Season 1, Episode 5. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
We get to hear some beautifully realized traditional tunes from Québec from traditional fiddler Alexis Chartrand. He talks very thoughtfully and about his background as a son of dancers, his explorations of tone colour with baroque violin, his upcoming performances at a number of festivals this summer, and some of his musical influences and inspiration. Links to video and bonus (soon with transcript): https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e5-s1-alexis-chartrand-fiddler Timestamps: (Timestamp) 00:00 intro (Timestamp) 00:29 Jig by Joseph Allard (Timestamp) 02:19 discussion of amplification in traditional music (Timestamp) 04:46 influence of dance, Alexis’ parents who are dance researchers Annie-Marie Gardette and Pierre Chartrand (Timestamp) 08:02 discussion of foot percussion and groove (Timestamp) 12:57 baroque violin (Timestamp) 17:16 collaborations with Nicolas Bibneau, more about baroque violin and different tunings (Timestamp) 22:51 Reel du Granpère on baroque violin (Timestamp) 25:52 discussion of ornamentation (Timestamp) 31:03 Alexis’ perspectives on his repertoire of tunes (Tmestamp) 33:49 Alexis’ classical training and education: Diane Plante, Joseph-François-Perrault school, Michel Tétrault composition teacher (Timestamp) 37:18 ballades: complainte intro (Timestamp( 39:47 Complainte (song without words) Here are links for Alexis Chartrand: https://www.facebook.com/agchartrand/ https://memoireracines.org/artistes/babineau_chartrand_2021/ https://www.bicmusique.com/fr/concerts-2021/ https://www.mareemusique.com/ https://alexischartrandcolinsavoielevac.bandcamp.com/releases https://alexischartrandnicolasbabineau.bandcamp.com/ https://centredesmusiciensdumonde.com/en/accompanied-residencies/2019-residencies/alexis-chartrand-levy-bourbonnais/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
Here's a little back-and-forth improv I did with erhu player Patty Chan! You can listen to the conversation I had with her and her demonstration of different instruments in the full conversation in this feed, and well as a fun bonus story! The video version of this is here: https://youtu.be/fGp6OmuR8bE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
In this conversation with Patty Chan, erhu player and educator, we get to hear the sounds of many different types of erhus and learn a lot about traditional Chinese music. The video version of this conversation is here: https://youtu.be/eJhnmdklMTAPatty's projects: Centre for Music Innovations: https://musinno.com; Toronto Chinese Orchestra: www.TorontoChineseOrchestra.com; YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHG...XMA Header Image Centre for Music Innovations – Curating and exploring contemporary works for Chinese instruments and orchestras musinno.com photo credit: SG Won --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
I speak with Yosuke Kawasaki, the wonderful Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada (of which I am a member). He talks about the challenges of staying grounded during this pandemic, his experiences studying with Dorothy Delay at both Julliard and Aspen festival, the inspriation he found in many of his peers growing up, and the conversation circles around to his role as concertmaster, and advice for young colleagues playing auditions. Below is a link to Yosuke's chamber music festival in Japan, about which he speaks during our conversation. The site is in Japanese but an English one should follow shortly. https://www.affinis.or.jp/summer_j/in... https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/yosuke-kawa... The video version of this conversation is: https://youtu.be/6dVDLLk24E0 photo credit: Rémi Thériault --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
After my conversation with Carissa (Epidsode 2), we did this little back-and-forth improvisation across Zoom. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
In Episode 2 of Conversations with Musicians, I speak with the versatile violinist, singer, and Artistic Director Carissa Klopoushak over Zoom on May 30, 2021. She shares some of her musical journey with us, and we have a wide-ranging conversation that also includes some beautiful music. Separately, I'm posting the little improv we did together as well, as a Bonus episode. Links to Carissa's band and other projects are on her website: http://www.carissaklopoushak.com/Ironwood String Quartet's recent performance (Beethoven, Montgomery, Danish String Quartet arrangements): https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/27905 Her band: Tyt i Tam Sama Piu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO3-u... A clip from the MacKay Concert Series recital (with Alexandru Sura and Thibault Bertin-Maghit) Tykha Voda (Ukr. folk song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYle... Carissa is the Artistic Director of: https://www.chamberfest.com/about/ Photography: bohuang.ca Hair and Makeup: Ivy Lam Styled & Coordinated by LIZPR --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
It's hard to make music over Zoom, but one way to do it is this kind of back-and-forth improvisation. This was done right after Episode 1 was recorded. This music was totally unplanned and spontaneous! Link for the complete episode podcast and video here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e1s1kirstymoney photo credits: Hamish Gordon for Kirsty and Curtis Perry for Leah --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leah-roseman/message
I speak with Kirsty Money about her Nyckelharpa journey and she demonstrates this beautiful instrument for us. As a separate bonus you can hear our improv together. For Kirsty's new album: https://kirstymoney.bandcamp.com/releases The transcript is now available: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e1s1kirstymoney For those of you who want to study or learn more about Kirsty: https://kirstymoney.ca https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuDe... YouTube For more information on the nyckelharpa world, here are some useful links: https://www.facebook.com/harpanut/ http://www.nyckelharpa.org - American Nyckelharpa Association https://olovjohansson.se - Olov’s website, tons of info here, and he has it translated to English, which is very good. https://vasen.se/about/ - Olov’s band Väsen, one of the primo bands from Scandinavia. https://esitobo.org Eric Sahlström Institute - Sweden’s Folk Music School for music and dance. She went there in 2015 " amazing!" photo credit: Hamish Gordon
