Christopher Redgate - Contemporary Oboist

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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Concerts & Events

New CDs
	Greatest Hits of All Time has received great critical acclaim! See the CD pages for an overview of press comments. The CD includes: James Clarke - Quintet (oboe and strings) Christopher Fox - Quintet (oboe and strings) Roger Redgate - Quintet (oboe and strings) Howard Skempton - Garland (oboe and strings) Roger Redgate - Eperons (oboe and percussion) Michael Finnissy - Greatest Hits of All Time (oboe and small ensemble) Michael Finnissy - Ceci (oboe and small ensemble) Edwin Roxburgh: Oboe Music has now been released on the Divine Art/Metier label. Chamber Music by Brian Ferneyhough has also recently been released. This CD includes Coloratura for oboe and piano and Allgebrah for oboe and 9 solo strings also on the Divine Art/Metier label. See my CDs page for more details.

	My next CD recording will be of concertos by Roger Redgate and David Gorton with music for oboe and emectronics.

Concert Performances of Interest
	*I will be performing in the premiere of Diana Burrell’s Vespers* on May 7^th at 7.30 pm St. Marylebone Church Marylebone Road NW1 Tickets £6.00 For Further Details** The programme will also include my own short Transcendental Study No.3

	I am performming at trhe Sounds New Festival in Canterbury on Monday May 10th. Full details here Programme: Luciano Berio: Sequenza No. 7 Matthew Wright: English Landscape Painting - World Premiere Edwin Roxburgh: At the Still Point of a Turning World Heinz Holliger: Studie über Mehrklänge (1979) for oboe solo Chris Fox: Headlong for Musette for piccolo oboe & square waves - British Premiere Michael Finnissy: Runnin’ Wild

	21st June - performing James Weeks' Burnham Air at the Spitalfields Festival. Further Details

Research Work
As Part of My AHRC Fellowship there are two research events this term: 1. Switched on Oboe At the Royal Academy of Music on the 14th May at 2.30 I will be joined by Matt Wright in an event called 'Switched on Oboe' This will be the first of a numebr of events that will explore the relationship between the oboe and live electronics. Matt has written a new work called English Landscape Painting (premiered earlier in the week at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury) for oboe and live electronics which includes pre recorded material, the use of laptop and also turntables. The event is free. Switched on Oboe
*2. On the 11th June Redefining the oboe 2* will take place at the Royal academy of Music at 2.30.**
Continuing on from the first event in this area I will be talking to Jeremy Walsworth, Director of Howarth of London, to discuss progress on the development of the new prototype oboe. The event will focus on the extension of the oboe’s range through the introduction of a fourth octave key and the development of new high-register fingerings as well as a discussion of our current direction in the re-design of the keywork. Redefining the Oboe