Welcome to the 21st Century Oboe site...!
New Article: Reeds and Contemporary Music
Listen: The premiere performance of David Gorton's Austerity Measures II with the Kreutzer Quartet.
The site also includes a great deal of important information for oboists and composers of a more general nature covering many of the contemporary oboe's techniques and sounds. Composer Basics has foundational information for composers about writing for the oboe today while many of the other sections give more in-depth information concerning the techniques: lists of fingerings, discussion about multiphonic notation etc.
The Video page has brief demonstration videos of the techniques - many of which can also be found in the relevant sections.
The information on this site and the research offered, including the re-designed oboe has been created as part of my Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship: 21st-Century Oboe which I held at the Royal Academy of Music, London from 2009-2012. I am now The Evelyn Barbirolli Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. Details of my professional performing work can be found at: www.christopherredgate.co.uk.
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