Heather also performs in a duo with pianist Kate Ledger:
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Born in Canada, Heather Roche did her initial training at the University of Victoria with Patricia Kostek. During this time, she worked with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada under the direction of Kazuyoshi Akiyama. She furthered her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she has been a student of Joy Farrall and Laurent Ben Slimane as well as a conducting student of Sian Edwards. Here, she has performed with the Guildhall Orchestra under the direction of Diego Masson, George Benjamin, Paolo Olmi and Sian Edwards and completed her Masters of Music in 2006. She has participated in residencies at Le Domaine Forget, Orford Arts Centre, with Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg) and at IMPULS (International Ensemble Academy for Contemporary Music, Graz). She was a featured performer at the Orford Arts Centre Festival, where she performed Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IXa. She has been featured two years running in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s New Music Festival. In 2006, she premiered David Wallace’s L’oiseau mis en cage for solo bass clarinet. And in 2007 she was featured again, performing Jo Kondo’s Three Songs of the Elderberry Tree and Giacinto Scelsi’s Preghiera per un Ombra, both for solo clarinet.
Recently, she has begun to specialize in contemporary music performance, and in September 2007 began a PhD at the University of Huddersfield to do just that. Current projects include a duo with pianist Kate Ledger, ’wake up’; a trio with violinist Elena Jauregui and pianist Sophia Russell; and an interdisciplinary collaboration / performance installation with Dylan Robinson, Karen Schaller and Benjamin Oliver at the University of Sussex, based on Donatoni’s ’Soft’ for solo bass clarinet.
Elliot Carter’s Steep Steps at the George E1
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