Once again to Canada for Andrew Clark
In 2008 Andrew Clark took a sabbatical from his career as a horn player. With the help of the Get a Life Fund he spent four months working with top horn maker Keith Berg in Canada developing his instrument making skills. In the intervening two years he’s continued to develop as a maker and his instruments are being extremely well received. The next phase in the journey kicks off next month when he and his wife Katrina will move to Vancouver. They’ll be setting up a workshop there where Andrew can make customised horns to order.
“My last concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment were earlier this month in a programme of Berlioz and Wagner. In the first half I played on my usual classical horn but with crooks I made this summer, and in the second half I used the Franz Strauss model that I made in 2008. In the Wagner off-stage horns Alex Hambleton played a hand horn made to order by me, so you could say 2 & 1/2 Clark horns were used in the concert.”
Good luck to them both for this next phase!
Posted by alison on August 28th, 2010.
