CURRENT Headshots by sasha israel (2024)
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Old Headshots (2017-2023)
Videos
A selection of video output of my playing, arranging and compositions.
This video showcases my beautiful Kingma Contrabass Flute and provide's a Composer's Toolkit, designed to fire the imagination of creative writers interested in these new sounds! The first 2 minutes of the video focuses on the bottom register, demonstrating the colours, dynamics and effects which are so unique to this instrument.
Recorded for the New Year of 2015-2016 - this arrangement is pleasantly crunchy in places - with fanfare like motifs as the piece progresses.
A recording of a performance of my arrangement of the "Best Bits of the Carmen Fantasy for Two Flutes & Piano" our recital at the 2015 Australian Flute Festival in Canberra. Playing with my lovely wife Abigail Burrows (www.abigailburrows.com)
The World Premiere Performance of Single Yellow Line - an original composition for Graded Flute Ensemble by Gareth McLearnon. This performance was conducted by the composer and was recorded at the final concert of the 2013 Sir James Galway Flute Festival held in Weggis, Switzerland.
The Premiere Performance of my 2015 work for Flute Orchestra 'Lamasery Jigsaw'. Theis work begins with a moody, ethereal opening, and finishes with a rocking 12/8 jig! This was performed at the closing concert of the Australian Flute Festival at the Llewellyn Hall at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Now that it's Public Domain - here's my own arrangement of the famous "Happy Birthday Song" for multiple FLUTES!! I'm playing on my Haynes 14K Gold Custom Flute, my Piccolo with Mancke Headjoint, my Amadeus by Wm. S. Haynes Alto Flute, my Brannen-Kingma Big Bore Bass Flute, and my Kingma Contrabass!
A live recording of Ian Clarke's 'Zoom Tube' for solo flute, played by Gareth McLearnon at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Concordia Foundation's 15th Anniversary Gala Concert on the 22nd of November 2010
Performance of an arrangement of Defying Gravity for large flute ensemble by the 2015 Australian Flute Festival Flute Orchestra directed by Gareth McLearnon.
