Check out today's Meet the ComposHER interview with Petra Stump-Linshalm!
Petra is a clarinetist and a composer. She studied clarinet at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and bass clarinet at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
She plays in groups as well as as a soloist and is not only interested in the classical repertoire, but also in experimental, contemporary and improvised music. In recent years she has also discovered composing for herself. For the Duo Stump- Linshalm thus far over 120 works were composed.
She plays in groups as well as as a soloist and is not only interested in the classical repertoire, but also in experimental, contemporary and improvised music. In recent years she has also discovered composing for herself. For the Duo Stump- Linshalm thus far over 120 works were composed.
Learn more about her and her outstanding works in the Meet the ComposHer of this week!
My interest in contemporary music was sparked soon after I had begun studying clarinet at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. So intrigued was I by it that I decided to study bass clarinet at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. At some point I began to wonder how my own music might sound and started composing. There are many contrasting aspects between interpreting and composing music, but I think the essential difference is that as an interpreter my focus is always to a certain extent on the listeners, I want to make them happy and to help convey the intention of the music; as a composer I am focused on myself and my own happiness.
Start to compose not only for my own instrument but also for other instruments! Because in the very beginning I thought I would only write for clarinets!
Already as a young musician I had worked regularly with the composers of the pieces I was playing, contributing actively to the realisation of compositional ideas and at the same time exploring the bounds of my own instrument. At some point I began to wonder how my own music might sound; it took a while to write my first piece, but I soon began to enjoy imagining how I might express the taste of a particular whisky or the scent of a rose as sound or musically convey a visual image. Other times I would simply look into myself and explore my inner world of sounds. To me composing is not only about being free but about giving expression to my perception of the world.
UISGE BEATHA [ɯʃkje 'bɛha] – A Guide to Flavours for solo contrabass clarinet (2015) Uisge Beatha, pronounced ushkeba, means “water of life”. In my piece, different whisky aromas are described in sounds, and the taste experience of liquid gold is transformed into a listening experience.
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Lotta Wennäkoski - andas (2008) for 2 bass clarinets
The bass clarinet is one of the most versatile instruments considering the huge register and the possibilities of different timbres. I've always found its sound very human and the air sounds specially fascinating. Breathing was thus a natural starting point to the short bass clarinet duo Andas. I wrote the work in 2008 having two very qualified musicians in mind: Petra Stump and Heinz-Peter Linshalm. Andas is the Swedish word for breathing
Don’t work too much and take time for all the beautiful things in life!
Always stay with your idea and don’t try to „make” something.
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