Beyond the Horizon Nora-Louise Müller, Bohlen-Pierce, Ákos Hoffmann, Bohlen-Pierce

• Georg Hajdu (b. 1960):
• 1 Burning Petrol (After Scriabin) 05:45
• Todd Harrop (b. 1970):
• 2 Maelstrom 07:23
• Ákos Hoffmann (b. 1973):
• 3 Duo Dez 04:14
• Nora-Louise Müller (b. 1977):
• 4 Morpheus 03:10
• Georg Hajdu:
• 5 Beyond the Horizon 07:16
• Todd Harrop:
• 6 Bird of Janus 06:11
• Sascha Lino Lemke (b. 1976):
• 7 Pas de deux 07:06
• Benjamin Helmer (b. 1985):
• 8 Preludio e passacaglia 05:42
• Manfred Stahnke (b. 1951):
• 9 Die Vogelmenschen von St. Kilda 07:03
• Fredrik Schwenk (b. 1960):
• 10 Night Hawks 06:20
• Total Runtime 01:00:10

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The new GENUIN CD offers fascinating acoustic experiments with compositions based on the tonal system of the Bohlen-Pierce scale. This system uses a twelfth instead of an octave and is divided into thirteen tonal steps, taking the listener into magical-archaic tonal worlds that transcend all listening habits. Nora-Louise Müller and Ákos Hoffmann, two outstanding clarinetists, and their fellow musicians play their own compositions on instruments specially made for this scale system, as well as music by Georg Hajdu, Todd Harrop and others.

Nora-Louise Müller, clarinet
Bohlen-Pierce, clarinet
Ákos Hoffmann, clarinet
Bohlen-Pierce, clarinet

Nora-Louise Müller
is sought after in Europe and North America as an interpreter and teacher of contemporary clarinet music. Several of her performances have been recorded for radio as part of the NDR—das neue werk series. Müller is a frequent guest artist at festivals, most recently the (DA)(NE)S Festival (Maribor, Slovenia), MicroFest (Amsterdam), klub katarakt (Hamburg), and chiffren – kieler tage für neue musik. As a guest instructor, she has frequently been invited to give lectures and masterclasses at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Travel grants from the Goethe-Institut enabled guest performances in Boston and Toronto as well as a stay at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2018 she won Second Prize in the Research Competition of the International Clarinet Association. In addition, she has performed over many years on the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet, which uses an alternative harmonic tonal system. As one of the very few clarinetists worldwide who play this unusual instrument, she is in demand not only as a concert clarinetist, but also occasionally for lectures on alternative tuning systems.

After completing her degree in instrumental pedagogy at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Müller continued her studies at the University of Music Lübeck in the class of Reiner Wehle and Sabine Meyer, where she earned her performance degree. She received further inspiration over the course of several years from classes at the Scuola Internazionale di Perfezionamento Musicale in Bobbio, Italy with Hans Deinzer. She has researched playing techniques and musical possibilities of the Bohlen-Pierce clarinets in her PhD dissertation, to be published in 2020.

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