Author: Yvonne Freckmann
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My MBAW Story
Yvonne Freckmann goes down memory lane of her formative years growing up in the Musical Bridges Around the World community and studying with Anya Grokhovski.
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Straight 8 2022 Film Finalist
Short film “The Great Debate” by Luna Herruzo with music scored by yours truly (Yvonne Freckmann) is one of 25 finalists in this year’s world-wide competition. The great challenge involves shooting a single roll of Super 8 film without editing or post-production: Picture planning all of the scenes and filming them back-to-back without retakes, and create music…
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Radio play of “Karin’s Colors”
Radio news! The New Edge (WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge/Boston MA) has programmed “Karin’s Colors” from UNDA Cellotrónica by Clara Rivière and myself today at 2 – 4 p.m. EST! Tune in online for streaming on http://wmbr.org Thanks to Ken Field for programming us! The show also airs & streams on WOMR/WFMR 92.1FM/91.3FM Provincetown/Orleans, MA, USA (http://womr.org)…
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Virtual Concert: Composer’s Alliance San Antonio
Sharing music from our homes, schools, churches, or recording studios members of CASA (the Composers Alliance San Antonio) launched a virtual concert of a great variety of music streamed live on YouTube on November 15, 2020, called “Meditations, Prayers, Visions.” Particularly inspiring were the numer of composers playing their own music during this time of…
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AiR Krems 2018
Looking back to a year ago, I remember fondly the chance to be artist in residence in Krems, Austria…During the month of June in 2018 it was residency time! On June 1st I arrived in Krems an der Donau for an entire month to devote to music-making. I was very honored to have been named…
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UnTwelve Project
As I look back on the past season, I wanted to say how honored I feel to have been selected to participate in the UNTWELVE project of microtonal music, going beyond the standard 12 tones of Western music. My piece One, for flute and clarinet, was performed by Robin Meiksins and Emily Mehigh! Some familiar…
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Windmill concert @Gaudeamus Muziekweek
A windmill is one of the most characteristic and vital machines in the Dutch landscape and an unusual choice for contemporary music theater performances. Many are monuments and ‘turn for the prince’ aka for beauty, but so many remain busy pumping water, grinding grain or sawing wood. We are fortunate to be able to perform…
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CopyPaste/Remix
Cut, mix, or flip around a famous score to hear how it transforms. That was the approach I took to the intriguing art exposition CopyPaste/Remix in South Limburg. The gallery opening was on a sunny Sunday afternoon, and as part of Werkplaats K Artists in Residence, cellist Clara Rivière and yours truly on piano performed…
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Young pianists play new music – “Made in SA4” Concert
Made in SA4 Child pianists concert – Composers Alliance San Antonio (CASA) On Sunday afternoon, May 20, 2018, The Composers Alliance of San Antonio proudly presented “Made in SA IV,” the fourth in its series of concerts of new music written for young pianists. Free and open to the public, the concert featured solo and…
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Two mills in one strike
The prospect of visiting two mills in one go got us out of bed before dawn Saturday. Having snowed a bit the day before, it was still around freezing and misty as the bus dropped us off in the countryside of Utrecht. A fifteen-minute walk to the canals under a highway and along a bike…