Author: osverdennis
Date: 2007-12-23 18:57
"You studied in the U.S, I remember, but who were your first teachers, before Lucarelli? Did you always play American scrape reeds?"
No , actually I used short scrape till 24 years old, and played in the orchestra but in 1997 got full scholarship at BU ,so I quit job and came to states. My first teacher in states was Ralph Gomberg he studied with Marcel Tabetau in 1930 . He was principal in Boston Symphony for 40 years . But 3 years I spent in BU were really crazy. See ,I always wanted to study abroad with good teacher but i think it was a little bit late for me to changed like everything- reeds, embouchure etc etc. I wasn't enough flexible as Gomberg was expected from me . So I was really happy to meet Humbert Lucarelly cause he gave me a hope that I can play and only in Hartford I began to play better. I won Emerson Quartet competition and played with them Mozart Quartet. It was really great time for me!!!
But you know what? I think that our ears -its the main factor of the sound,and only after that we can talk about anything else. In other words we sound the way we imagine the ideal sound . Embouchure , air pressure , reed and instrument just helps us to produce sound which we want to hear. Oh man ,I never wrote so long in english since I left States.
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