I had a blast at Sonoma State. I got a lesson with Rotem Gilbert and played in two of Peter Maund's groups. I really want to work with them again! I finally got to meet and play with Margriet Tindemans! She is so nice.
I wish I could play more douçaine right now, but I am mostly practicing clarinet for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, where I am the only one in my section who is not in the San Francisco Symphony. After that I'll dive back in to the douçaine, start grad school and teaching at NNU and C of I.
About Me
- Aage
- I drink a lot of TaB cola and Carlsberg beer, but not together. I am a professional musician, specializing in bass clarinet and tenor douçaine (like a medieval oboe), but also teach a lot of clarinet and saxophone. I play in the Boise Philharmonic, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Darkwood Consort and Virelai des Bois. I teach as an adjunct at the College of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University. I am a convert to Catholicism (from Lutheranism) but remain somewhat pinko-lefty. I have watched Days of Our Lives since the seventies. I speak Danish, English and French. Well, I try to speak French. My Danish is better even though I am self-taught. For that matter, my Danish could be better too. That's why I sometimes do this blog in Danish. It's a learning tool and it garners me a little privacy while I post my silliness on the web. When I'm not talking about the douçaine (which is rare) or other medieval topics, I am usually rambling about something (or someone) Danish, especially Anne Linnet. I have adopted Buffy Sainte-Marie as my own personal Elvis. My students get quite the enthusiastic lecture if they ask about the Indian woman on the wall.