Christopher Redgate - 21st Century Oboe Project

Christopher Redgate Contemporary Oboe Music Specialist

Introduction to the Fellowship

Playing the Impossible Event

Re-defining the Oboe

The Philip Bate Concert

Modern Times: Connecting Composers

Introduction to the research pages

Instrument ranges

Writing 1/4 tones and micro tones

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Welcome to my Contemporary Oboe web pages!

	Latest News...
	I have recently taken up a post at the Royal Academy of Music as an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing arts. This post will enable me to work on plans to redesign some of the keywork of the oboe and to develop a number of techniques that are currently problematic - as well as work with composers to create a wide range of new repertoire. These are plans that I have been thinking over for many years. At the moment news and details of these developments can be found on the 21^st-Century Oboe page which can be found on the above menu. Fellowship Event: Re-defining the Oboe This, the second event of my fellowship at the Royal Academy will explore the practicalities and concepts of instrumental development and redesign. I will have two guests to share the discussions: Jos Zwaanenburg and Patrick Ozzard-Low. David Gorton, (who will be chairing the above presentation) and I will be discussing his oboe concerto, Schmetterlingsspiel and playing a recording of the premiere from the Huddersfield Festival last November at the Royal Academy of Music on the 15th January, 2.30 - 4.00 in the piano Gallery. CD Reviews: My latest CD ‘Greatest Hits of All Time’ has received considerable acclaim in press reviews I have added some of the reviews to the CDs page where there are also links to web reviews. The CD has been chosen as CD of the Month by Music Web International. For further details see the CD page: Greatest Hits of All Time.



	Above is a button entitled 'Research Pages'. I receive a large number of emails asking questions about the oboe today from both performers and composers. The idea of these pages is that they will supply a range of information on topics of interest to composers, oboists and to students learning music or writing dissertations on aspects of contemporary oboe performance. I have recently added some information on writing for ¼ tones and microtones for the oboe. This is primarily a guide for composers but oboists also may find some interesting information here.

"...the result of a quarter-century’s dedicated research and graft: one man’s love affair with the contemporary oboe. Redgate is one of a tiny band of oboists across the world who have made a life’s work of taking the instrument into the farthest reaches of technical virtuosity and physical capability, and in doing so inspired a generation of composers to create a virtuoso repertoire characterised by blazing compositional audacity and extremity." James Weeks – Tempo Magazine