Final concert by Yannick Trares

Contributors

Program

Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet, No. 3
Robert C. Bauer Intermezzo
Robert C. Bauer Etude pulmonaire
Heather Frasch quietly breathing for bass clarinet and live electronics
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Andante from the Clarinet Sonata in E-flat Major
Sebastian Fagerlund Breath. Trio for clarinet, cello, and accordion

The final concert serves as the artistic performance examination for the artistic-scientific doctoral dissertation “Physiological Investigations into Breathing Strategies in Clarinet Playing” at Collège Glarean.

The concert will feature works directly related to the theme of breathing: pieces that are particularly challenging in terms of breathing technique, works that focus on the breath through improvisational or noise-like elements, as well as two compositions by Prof. Robert C. Bauer, which were composed for Yannick Trares as part of this research project.

The concert is part of an artistic doctoral project at the College of Music in Freiburg that examines and artistically contextualizes lung ventilation during clarinet playing under various breathing techniques. Immediately following the concert, at 6:30 p.m., the defense will take place in the Chamber Music Hall.

Yannick Trares

Yannick Trares is a clarinetist and conductor. After completing his studies in Karlsruhe and Zurich, he has devoted himself to an intensive concert career in chamber music, performs regularly as an orchestral musician in professional ensembles, and teaches clarinet at the music schools in Steinhausen and Risch-Rotkreuz, as well as clarinet and pedagogy at the College of Music in Freiburg. As a conductor, he leads renowned wind orchestras in Central Switzerland; in addition, he is conducting research as part of an artistic-scientific doctoral program at the Glarean College in Freiburg-Strasbourg on the topic “Investigations into the Physiology of Breathing in Clarinetists.” Lectures on the topic of breathing have taken him to various conservatories in Switzerland and Germany, as well as to festivals such as clarimondo at the Staufen Music Academy and the “NOVA” Academy of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble.