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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

XN at Moers Festival Curated by Graham McKenzie: Sophie Cooper, Tom Hawkins, Flo Christman, Jan Hendrickse, Heather Roche, Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson. 📅 22–23 May Link in bio.

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Stephen Chase @stephenchase.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is something else and then some. It goes places much music doesn't. A thing to get wonderfully lost in. @juergfrey.bsky.social @heatherroche.bsky.social @apartment-house.bsky.social @anothertimbre.bsky.social anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/clarin...

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Clarinet Quintet, by Jürg Frey

3 track album

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I made a repertoire database that you can add your pieces to - tap in the multiphonics you've used so clarinet players can see what's being used in your work and include a recording that'll embed automatically! Sign up for a free trial and take advantage of this feature today 🥰 www.multiphonics.app

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Kory Reeder @koryreeder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It’s bandcamp Friday, ya’ll - the day where you’re money helps support the artists most! Look at all these beautiful people: they all make great music that you can listen to sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/merch

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Éliane Radigue in Nice, France c. 1950s Photo: Yves Raman

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 25/02/2026

"Radigue pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists.” R.I.P. Éliane Radigue buff.ly/ShlQoU5

Éliane Radigue, black and white photograph.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

New feature! Multiphonic of the day 😍 www.multiphonics.app

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ok the app is live. Have at it, clarinet multiphonic lovers. I'm dying to know what you think and how you'll use it! www.multiphonics.app

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Soft launch has gone so well. Just over 50 users now! Such a thrill. And yesterday someone posted a bit of feedback in the forum which was genuinely so helpful so I implemented everything this morning. I really want to go proper live now.

A screenshot from the multiphonics app with a list of recent updates to the app

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Ok, I think the app is done. I think I might hit go on the soft launch tomorrow. Might spend today adding some more contrabass multiphonics...

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

my violin chord composer's helper tool is more or less done if anyone else wants to try it out

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Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

One week left to apply to this PhD studentship! Fully funded, covers fees and stipend; UK home student applicants only (due to funder rules).

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Realised I hadn't added an option to cancel your account in what I thought yesterday might be a Finished App. Oops. Obviously had that realisation at 5am.

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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We're welcoming applications for the 2027 RPS Composers programme, for UK-based composers establishing a career. Write for a noted ensemble, venue or festival, with professional development workshops and mentoring. Find out more and apply by 1 April: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

The 2025 RPS Composers gather at the end of programme networking event. From left: Arthur Keegan, Emily Hazrati, Lisa Robertson, Derri Joseph Lewis, Amble Skuse, Sasha Scott, Zygmund de Somogyi, Cameron Biles-Liddell.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I put a tool in my admin panel to check for duplicated fingerings and I found about 30 (oops - but there were 614 fingerings total so human error is likely), and it was SO satisfying to start tidying them all up. Urgent to do it too since my clarinetist beta tester has started work today 🥰

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Wouldn't it be cool if suddenly there was just this huge proliferation of multiphonic-heavy clarinet music because the app just makes it so easy to be creative with them all? Oh man I could die happy to think I helped bring that kind of joy into the world 🤣

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Alternative Classical @alterclassical.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Experience a deep dive into the cutting edge of Iceland’s mesmerising musical landscape in a full day of music, film and talks: www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/concerts-cal...

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Composers! I've made a clarinet multiphonic app with a ton of features I know you'll love. Been dreaming of doing this myself for 12 years and now it's real. I'm just in the testing phase now if you want early and discounted access sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Classical Crescendo @classicalcrescendo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#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

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 12/03/2025

In color: Dimitri and Irina Shostakovich playing with a little cat.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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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rbcmusicology.bsky.social @rbcmusicology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

@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/

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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.)

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Warmups and the Adult Amateur Musician

On developing confident, efficient adult clarinetists through good warming up

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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...

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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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Heather Roche | tonebase Coaching

Learn more about Heather Roche and find out how you can learn from them directly through tonebase Coaching.

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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...

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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!)

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The Other Dead Sea, by Jon Collin

5 track album

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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!

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#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

Gombert - Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks
(Apartment House, 2025)

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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...

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The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2025

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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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hcmf// @hcmfuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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Nat Lyon @natlyon.com · 04/02/2025

i don't care who you are- this is going to be an educational experience. mark it on your calendar:

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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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...

2024 RPS Composers gather at the RPS office alongside Beethoven bust. From left to right: Aileen Sweeney, Arowah (Angelica Cleaver), Sarah Frances Jenkins, Fergus Hall, James Albany Hoyle, Sun Keting, Jasper Dommett.

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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

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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…

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Heather Roche @heatherroche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One week to go until applications are due for the Darmstadt Instrumental Studios! Have you got your application in? internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/ferienkur...

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Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My new composition residency for trans girls with inti figgis-vizueta and Andrew Yee happening this summer is still accepting applications through this weekend. The deadline was 1/31 and we got a nice healthy # of applications but giving folks a couple more days to apply. www.sarah-hennies.com/gliss

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GLISS Composition Residency — Sarah Hennies

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