Heather Roche
@heatherroche.bsky.social
clarinetist, teacher, recording artist, researcher
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#MusicIcon Michel Arrignon, co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and cherished clarinettist, has passed away at 76. A pioneer of modernism, he brought 20th-century masterpieces to life and was deeply inspired by his work with Pierre Boulez. #ClassicalMusic #Legacy
March 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#MusicIcon Michel Arrignon, co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and cherished clarinettist, has passed away at 76. A pioneer of modernism, he brought 20th-century masterpieces to life and was deeply inspired by his work with Pierre Boulez. #ClassicalMusic #Legacy
Since it was my birthday last week, I bought myself a present: a new contrabass clarinet mouthpiece from JD Woodwinds. 3D printed, and 1/3 of the price of other models. Arrived from the US in less than a week. And it plays like a dream. Agility + dynamic control are up 10x.
March 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Since it was my birthday last week, I bought myself a present: a new contrabass clarinet mouthpiece from JD Woodwinds. 3D printed, and 1/3 of the price of other models. Arrived from the US in less than a week. And it plays like a dream. Agility + dynamic control are up 10x.
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Sofia Gubaidulina passed away today in Germany, aged 93. RIP.
March 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Sofia Gubaidulina passed away today in Germany, aged 93. RIP.
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In color: Dimitri and Irina Shostakovich playing with a little cat.
March 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In color: Dimitri and Irina Shostakovich playing with a little cat.
Three days until the deadline for our Composer's Lab, get your applications in! heatherroche.net/2025/02/25/z...
ZRD Composer’s Lab: Applications Open!
The Zöllner-Roche Duo are pleased to announce their 2025 Composer’s Lab. A jury consisting of Eva Zöllner & Heather Roche
and composer Elnaz Seyedi will select 3 composers
who will writ…
heatherroche.net
March 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Three days until the deadline for our Composer's Lab, get your applications in! heatherroche.net/2025/02/25/z...
Spent all day recording Meredith Monk on my glorious contrabass clarinet and I love playing it so much and please can more people book me to do so? Please? I really don’t get to take her out often enough. She’s low and a bit farty and really just delightful.
March 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Spent all day recording Meredith Monk on my glorious contrabass clarinet and I love playing it so much and please can more people book me to do so? Please? I really don’t get to take her out often enough. She’s low and a bit farty and really just delightful.
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@royalbirmcons.bsky.social is offering TWO £5000 scholarships open to applicants for our MA Musicology course. This one-year course can be a gateway to PhD studies or simply a chance to explore any area of music in more depth with world-leading experts, all in our state-of-the-art facilities 1/
March 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@royalbirmcons.bsky.social is offering TWO £5000 scholarships open to applicants for our MA Musicology course. This one-year course can be a gateway to PhD studies or simply a chance to explore any area of music in more depth with world-leading experts, all in our state-of-the-art facilities 1/
I wrote a thing after an encounter with one of my adult clarinet students! (I also started a Substack, having already been hooked on the platform for a few months now.)
Warmups and the Adult Amateur Musician
On developing confident, efficient adult clarinetists through good warming up
substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I wrote a thing after an encounter with one of my adult clarinet students! (I also started a Substack, having already been hooked on the platform for a few months now.)
I'm happy with this video too but this thumbnail is probably my best work ever 🤣
Portamento, Slap Tongue and Double Tongue in Kagel's Schattenklänge for solo bass clarinet
YouTube video by Heather Roche, Clarinettist
youtu.be
February 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm happy with this video too but this thumbnail is probably my best work ever 🤣
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We're putting on this gig on Friday (21st Feb) with Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks (launching their album FATHM), two excellent experimental musicians from the USA who I am sure some of you know. Please come to this gig! Sign up here: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
February 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We're putting on this gig on Friday (21st Feb) with Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks (launching their album FATHM), two excellent experimental musicians from the USA who I am sure some of you know. Please come to this gig! Sign up here: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
We are now accepting applications for the next ZRD Composer's Lab. Three commissions of €1500, no restrictions on age or nationality (although 2/3 must be resident in Germany) kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/composers-la...
February 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We are now accepting applications for the next ZRD Composer's Lab. Three commissions of €1500, no restrictions on age or nationality (although 2/3 must be resident in Germany) kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/composers-la...
Have a call with a tonebase clarinet coachee this afternoon and I'm so excited to get her started. The way the platform helps you track your progress and get feedback every week is cool, I think it's going to be an amazing tool (and hope more people sign up!) coaching.tonebase.co/coaches/heat...
Heather Roche | tonebase Coaching
Learn more about Heather Roche and find out how you can learn from them directly through tonebase Coaching.
coaching.tonebase.co
February 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Have a call with a tonebase clarinet coachee this afternoon and I'm so excited to get her started. The way the platform helps you track your progress and get feedback every week is cool, I think it's going to be an amazing tool (and hope more people sign up!) coaching.tonebase.co/coaches/heat...
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Re-amplifying this job going in digital music cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social
Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college
The search is deep & wide
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college
The search is deep & wide
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
February 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Re-amplifying this job going in digital music cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social
Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college
The search is deep & wide
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college
The search is deep & wide
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
I'm playing a set at the Blue Moon in Cambridge tomorrow with my pal Jack Cooper (Modern Nature), and Jon Collin is headlining and I think it's all going to be rather beautiful joncollin.bandcamp.com/album/the-ot... so come along cambridge folks, lots of floaty guitars (and bass clarinets!)
The Other Dead Sea, by Jon Collin
5 track album
joncollin.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm playing a set at the Blue Moon in Cambridge tomorrow with my pal Jack Cooper (Modern Nature), and Jon Collin is headlining and I think it's all going to be rather beautiful joncollin.bandcamp.com/album/the-ot... so come along cambridge folks, lots of floaty guitars (and bass clarinets!)
I'm not the only instrumental studio in this position, but interesting to see how many professional clarinetists are signing up for Darmstadt - I have feeling younger players just don't know about it. Still some spaces in the clarinet studio so please tell your friends, today is last day to apply!
February 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm not the only instrumental studio in this position, but interesting to see how many professional clarinetists are signing up for Darmstadt - I have feeling younger players just don't know about it. Still some spaces in the clarinet studio so please tell your friends, today is last day to apply!
Just been reading about crosstalk as a language learning method - hoo boy that would have been a GREAT idea when I was learning German, I had so many awkward tandem dates…
February 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just been reading about crosstalk as a language learning method - hoo boy that would have been a GREAT idea when I was learning German, I had so many awkward tandem dates…
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#NowPlaying Gorgeous melancholic motets by Renaissance composer *Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments by contemporary composer James Weeks who also composed the 'media vita' interludes. Beautifully played by the great @apartment-house.bsky.social
*a bad man
*a bad man
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#NowPlaying Gorgeous melancholic motets by Renaissance composer *Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments by contemporary composer James Weeks who also composed the 'media vita' interludes. Beautifully played by the great @apartment-house.bsky.social
*a bad man
*a bad man
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You can’t measure the worth of writing by views. Most of the finest articles I’ve ever had the joy to commission & edit for tQ are nowhere near our most read. Every publication that has gone slutty for page views has also gone shit - it’s a race to the bttm, that’s the rules.
Truly abysmal goings-on at the Mirror, as reported in Private Eye. Literally holding my head in my hands reading this.
February 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You can’t measure the worth of writing by views. Most of the finest articles I’ve ever had the joy to commission & edit for tQ are nowhere near our most read. Every publication that has gone slutty for page views has also gone shit - it’s a race to the bttm, that’s the rules.
One of my favourite places in all of London and the idea of it not being there anymore is too awful to really think about
‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema
As the much-loved cinema faces the threat of closure, six cinemagoers reminisce about their favourite moments at the film institution
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
One of my favourite places in all of London and the idea of it not being there anymore is too awful to really think about
This monthly roundup always inspires some listening in this house, but also really glad he dug our Gombert/Weeks record.
daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2025
Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.
daily.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This monthly roundup always inspires some listening in this house, but also really glad he dug our Gombert/Weeks record.
daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
Have quite a busy spring of projects coming up, except April. April is this weird black hole where I have *nothing*. The one thing I did have was just cancelled. April, come on, what are you doing to me?
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Have quite a busy spring of projects coming up, except April. April is this weird black hole where I have *nothing*. The one thing I did have was just cancelled. April, come on, what are you doing to me?
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Across four sessions, hcmf// and @hootcreativearts.bsky.social offer a fun opportunity to make music online in a group setting, led by community musician and arts practitioner Rob Crisp. No experience necessary – just an open mind and an internet connection.
Learn more:
hcmf.co.uk/online-elect...
Learn more:
hcmf.co.uk/online-elect...
January 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Across four sessions, hcmf// and @hootcreativearts.bsky.social offer a fun opportunity to make music online in a group setting, led by community musician and arts practitioner Rob Crisp. No experience necessary – just an open mind and an internet connection.
Learn more:
hcmf.co.uk/online-elect...
Learn more:
hcmf.co.uk/online-elect...
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i don't care who you are-
this is going to be an educational experience.
mark it on your calendar:
this is going to be an educational experience.
mark it on your calendar:
I'm doing another LIVE Q&A on my YouTube Channel on Thursday, aimed mostly at composers (although clarinetists you're also very welcome as ever!). More info and how to submit a question in advance here:
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton
Live Q&A – Thursday, February 6
Dear composers – I’m hosting another Live Q&A on my YouTube channel at 6pm GMT this coming Thursday: If you’d like to ask a question in advance, you can submit one (and even a…
heatherroche.net
February 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
i don't care who you are-
this is going to be an educational experience.
mark it on your calendar:
this is going to be an educational experience.
mark it on your calendar:
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We're welcoming applications for the 2026 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, alongside professional development workshops and mentoring. Apply by 25 March via royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We're welcoming applications for the 2026 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, alongside professional development workshops and mentoring. Apply by 25 March via royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...
I'm doing another LIVE Q&A on my YouTube Channel on Thursday, aimed mostly at composers (although clarinetists you're also very welcome as ever!). More info and how to submit a question in advance here:
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton
Live Q&A – Thursday, February 6
Dear composers – I’m hosting another Live Q&A on my YouTube channel at 6pm GMT this coming Thursday: If you’d like to ask a question in advance, you can submit one (and even a…
heatherroche.net
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I'm doing another LIVE Q&A on my YouTube Channel on Thursday, aimed mostly at composers (although clarinetists you're also very welcome as ever!). More info and how to submit a question in advance here:
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton
heatherroche.net/2025/02/03/l...
Photo by Sam Walton