News, thoughts and activities 2025
Dear all,
I will send my newsletters via Substack from now on! This is a platform with all different kind of people, who write all different kind of things. Scientists, journalists, artists. Some have content for which you have to pay. I will just post my newsletters.
The difference with my former newsletter is: it stays as a blog. It is easier to subscribe (and to unsubscribe..). I hope you enjoy this first one!
To quote composer Kaija Saariaho: “For something we really must take much time, is making art”. By sharing art, me and my fellow artists, hope to bring some positivity.
I hope to see you soon,
Fie Schouten, bass clarinetist
LOOKING FORWARD
Study bass clarinet | clarinet(s) with focus contemporary music, Bachelor or Master?
Prins Claus Conservatoire, Groningen, apply before 1 March 2025 -> information
2-4 april 2025 Split, Croatia
Guest professor at Split University, Music Department
masterclasses + concert
13 april 2025 15:00 Amsterdam Plein Theater tickets
concert series Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam
Duo Katharina Gross (cello) & Fie Schouten
Premiere duo by Janco Verduin
inspiration: the life of the bat..
Premiere solo bass clarinet by Aspasia Nasopoulou
inspiration: a story from the book by Geert Mak Grote Verwachtingen in Europa 1999-2021
15 april 2025 20:00 Tilburg De Link tickets
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten and Ruud Roelofsen
Premiere duo by Peter Jakober (AT) supported by Ernst von Siemens Stiftung
25 april ’25 18:30 Strasbourg (F) Musee l’Aubette info
Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten
5-23 may 2025 Norway, Trondheim
residency Duo Katharina Gross & Fie Schouten
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder
July, August 2025
Residency in Paris/Meudon - van Doesburghuis supported by Fund of the Performing Arts
September - November 2025
Basklarinet Festijn 5th edition !!
Concerts by many interesting artists mostly in the Netherlands and as usual a day for enthousiasts & young professionals to exchange knowledge and playing together.
New bass clarinet solo by Roberto Bonati
inspiration: writings by Pier Paolo Pasolini scritti corsari
New CD Free Space will be released at Relative Pitch Records
Featuring Fie Schouten clarinets, Vincent Courtois cello, Pierre Baux voice, Sofia Borges drums.
inspiration: the book Espèces d’espaces by Georges Perec
LOOKING BACK
December 2024 - improvisation session with Sophie Hassfurther and Frank Gratkowski; this track 2 x bass clarinet 1 x tenor sax
CD recording (July 2024) & release (Nov 2024) of CD bee sage Duo Gross & Schouten
Buy physical copy of the CD via Attacca
Stream or buy download on Bandcamp
Borrow from Muziekweb (NL) Review (in Dutch) Opus Klassiek
Wonderfull experience with Katharina Gross and Ruud Roelofsen in Bukarest, Rumania, Meridian Festival 8-10 Nov 2024:
September 2024 - improvisation session with Kerwin Rolland
this track 1 x bass clarinet 1 x electronics