piccolo encounters Pamela Stahel

• Alessandro Cavicchi (b. 1957):
• 1 Chiaroscuro 04:34
• Meyer Kupferman (1926 - 2003):
• 2 Short Shrift 04:11
• Sophie Dufeutrelle (b. 1973):
• 3 Flammerole 05:52
• Francesco Santucci (b. 1939):
• 4 El Jardin de Amilamia 04:12
• Jeff Scott (b. 1967): The Gift of Life:
• 5 The Gift of Life: Overture 02:59
• 6 The Gift of Life: Tragedy 03:10
• 7 The Gift of Life: Ascent-Celebration of Life 03:44
• Alessandro Cavicchi:
• 8 Three Moods 05:07
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988): Ruck di Guck:
• 9 Ruck di Guck: I 02:28
• 10 Ruck di Guck: II 02:46
• 11 Ruck di Guck: III 04:12
• Christopher Caliendo (b. 1976):
• 12 Adagio & Toccata 11:02
• Total Runtime 54:17

Info zu piccolo encounters

“PICCOLO ENCOUNTERS” is the culmination of a career-long desire to capture the essence of the wealth of experience we have been able to accumulate as musical partners and friends. As varied as their nationalities, diverse as their backgrounds and contrasting as their cultures, the artists on this album share a close bond: that which connects these seemingly disparate elements and leads to the creation of Encounters that punctuate the lives of composers and performers alike. The sharing of these experiences with you, the audience, is the special privilege of the musician. These encounters and experiences that we were able to make in the world of music had a decisive influence on the life of Pamela Stahel and led to the creation of this album. It is not only the special perspective of a piccolo player that is important, but above all the special repertoire that makes up the character of this collaboration. Both the selection of the pieces and the performers are decisive. Pamela Stahel plays a Burkart Piccolo Elite XXV. Nicola Mazzanti plays a Keefe Piccolo. On the album are Works by Alessandro Cavicchi, Meyer Kupferman, Sophie Dufeutrelle, Francesco Santucci, Jeff Scott and Giacinto Scelsi.

Nicola Mazzanti, piccolo
Igor Longato, piano
Sarah Rumer, flute
Pamela Stahel, piccolo
Robert Pickup, clarinet
Julie Palloc, harp
Karen Forster, viola
Timothy Ruedeman, saxophone
Christopher Brellochs, saxophone
Paul Cohen, saxophone
Clement Noël, oboe

Pamela Stahel
wurde in New York geboren, wo sie auch ihre Jugendzeit verbrachte. Mit fünf Jahren erhielt sie Geigenunterricht, mit 13 wechselte sie zur Flöte. Ihr Musikstudium absolvierte sie in Pittsburgh bei Bernard Z. Goldberg und schloss mit dem Bachelor of Music ab. Weitere Studien und Meisterkurse führten sie zu namhaften Musikern und nach Zürich zu André Jaunet. Sie spielte in verschiedenen amerikanischen Orchestern, u.A. das Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, bis sie in der Schweiz Wohnsitz nahm. Als freischaffende Flötistin wirkte sie in Formationen wie dem Zürcher Kammerorchester, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Kammerorchester DRS, & Virtuosi di Praga bis sie 1991 Mitglied des Orchesters der Oper Zürich wurde. Eine engagierte Kammermusikerin, Pamela Stahel spielt mit Kammermusikensembles wie dem Janacek Quartett, Chamber Soloists Lucerne & ensemble kontraste zh und wirkt als Dozentin an der Hochschule der Künste Zürich.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet