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Music
http://www.ilankelman.org/music.html

Music: Playing, Photographing, Composing

Music-related photographs appear on this page along with:

Fiddler (2000).

Fiddler (copyright Ilan Kelman 2000).


Ensembles

I attempt to play flute, clarinet, saxophone, penny whistle, and an assortment of percussion instruments including kokiriko, spoons, and wind chimes. As I am not a particularly good musician, never having studied outside of school and with minimal natural aptitude, I stay with non-audition groups. They also tend to be the most fun which is the main reason for playing music. I have focused on wind orchestras and Celtic music groups, with some experience of full orchestras and percussion ensembles.

In addition to collecting small ensembles to play at parties and to busk, the groups with whom I have had tuning and rhythm difficulties include:

  • Boulder Concert Band, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

  • Cam-French, Cambridge, U.K.

  • CUCB, Cambridge University Ceilidh Band, Cambridge, U.K.

  • Gog Magog Molly, Cambridge, U.K.

  • Hart House Orchestra, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (the non-audition opportunities only).

  • Hart House Symphonic Band, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • St. John's College Folk Group, Cambridge, U.K.

  • Traditional Music Society, Cambridge, U.K.

  • TYWO, Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • UCCB, University of Cambridge Concert Band, Cambridge, U.K.

  • Y Casgliad Grwf Ffwnci Taliesin, Cambridge, U.K. (now defunct, quite possibly because few people could pronounce or spell the name).

CUCB playing at 4 am at Homerton College May Ball 2003.

CUCB playing at 4 am at Homerton College May Ball 2003.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2003.)


Ceilidh dancers at 4 am at Homerton College May Ball 2003.

Ceilidh dancers to the tunes of CUCB at 4 am at Homerton College May Ball 2003.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2003.)


Ceilidh dancers at Emmanuel College May Ball 2003.

Ceilidh dancers to the tunes of CUCB at 4:30 am at Emmanuel College May Ball 2003
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2003.)


Gog Magog Molly dancers at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge (2002).

Gog Magog Molly dancers at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2002.)


Gog Magog Molly musicians at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge (2002).

Gog Magog Molly musicians at the Grafton Centre, Cambridge. Some members are surprisingly young.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2002.)


Percussion's-eye view of Becky Collis conducting the University of Cambridge Concert Band in St. Giles Church (2004).

Percussion's-eye view of Becky Collis conducting the University of Cambridge Concert Band in St. Giles Church.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2004.)


Dancers at the Burns Night 2005 Ceilidh at Pembroke College.

Dancers at the Burns Night 2005 Ceilidh at Pembroke College.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2005.)


CUCB playing at the Burns Night 2005 Ceilidh at Pembroke College.

CUCB playing at the Burns Night 2005 Ceilidh at Pembroke College.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2005.)


Brian Hopwood conducts the Boulder Concert Band in front of the Main Branch of the library in Boulder, Colorado.

Brian Hopwood conducts the Boulder Concert Band in front of the Main Branch of the library in Boulder, Colorado.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2006.)


Randy Coleman conducts the Boulder Concert Band at the Chautauqua Park in Boulder, Colorado.

Randy Coleman conducts the Boulder Concert Band at the Chautauqua Park in Boulder, Colorado.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2007.)


Compositions

Because I cannot play piano or guitar and because I have never studied theory, the best that I can do when composing is one line, usually for flute or clarinet, without chords. Nonetheless, I hope that some of these compositions might be of interest, even if they sound a bit thin. Many rhythm players that I know are able to improvize chords after hearing the tune a few times.

All tunes are copyright Ilan Kelman. The files are in PDF which requires Adobe Acrobat to read. File sizes are 50-500 kb.

Harpist (2000).

Harpist (copyright Ilan Kelman 2000).


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