Heather Roche (clarinets), Ty Bouque (baritone) & Dominic Lash (double bass)
Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £10 cash
Born in Canada, clarinetist Heather Roche lives in London. Referred to as ‘The Queen of Extended Techniques’ on BBC Radio 3, she appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at European festivals, including HCMF, Acht Brücken (Cologne), Wittener Tage (Germany), Flow (Helsinki), MusikFest (Berlin), BachFest (Leipzig), Manifeste (Paris), etc. She currently plays with Apartment House and has had a duo with accordionist Eva Zöllner since 2017, with whom she has toured Mexico, Sweden, Colombia and Brazil. She has performed as a soloist with the BBCSSO, and performed with ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, the LSO, Musikfabrik, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Red Note, Riot Ensemble, manufaktur für aktuelle musik, and Mimitabu, etc. She holds a PhD from the University of Huddersfield. Her blog on writing for the clarinet attracts 70,000 viewers each year. She is also Reviews Editor of TEMPO, published by Cambridge University Press, and teaches clarinet at Goldsmiths University. Her debut solo CD, Ptelea, is out on HCR/NMC, and her CD featuring the clarinet works of Christopher Fox, Headlong, appears on Métier. She also records regularly for the Another Timbre label.
www.heatherroche.net
Ty Bouque writes about opera: its slippery histories, its sensual bodies, and what to do with the genre if the genre might be dead. They sing as one-fourth of the new music quartet Loadbang and can be found making noise with other ensembles around the world. They live in Detroit with an accordion they do not know how to play but would very much like to. More writing can be found at VAN Magazine, and on Substack: @preposterousreading..
Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician” He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, and Mark Sanders. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet.
