Carl Stueber

In contrast to the stage play, which is divided into 15 scenes framed by introductory songs, Michael Jarrell has constructed his opera as uninterrupted flow of 12 tableaux, in an effort to highlight t...

Back to painting, with Leonard de Vinci, in ...d'ombres lointaines.... 'You will portray landscapes beneath wind and water, at down and at dusk. You will portray wind over land and over water, you wil...

Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments...

Musik existiert eigentlich nur im Konzert. Ein Komponist, der so denkt, steht vermutlich auch dem Abschluss eines eigenen Werkes kritisch gegenüber. Tatsächlich reklamiert Michael Jarrell schon seit d...

Sillage (Wakes): 'the trace that a ship leaves behind it on the surface of waters,' says the dictionary. But also: 'Part of a fluid (liquid, air) left behind a body in motion - perturbations that occu...

The piano concerto Abschied was a commission of the Salzburg Festival and had its premiere there on the 8th of august 2001. The initial idea was that of a spiral developing almost infinitely. A chain...

The notion of prism applied to a whole instrumental ensemble, which Jarrell makes explicit in the title of his work, condenses and crystallises the hidden side of the solo violin. 'I frequently like t...

His Instantanés are thus his way of saying, like Augustine: 'Present time cries that it cannot last long'. Here, the same figures unravel, each claiming its Present: in the first piece, in the urgency...

The harmonic language of Michael Jarrell's works is marked by a subtle sounding out of intervallic relationships: chords derive their characteristics from the specific arrangement of their intervals....

The basic idea for the opening of the work was to start with a short and powerful 'primal explosion' that would reappear throughout the piece in different forms, more or less regularly. This 'art of p...

...Le ciel, tout à l'heure encore si limpide, soudain se trouble horriblement...(...The sky, recently so clear, suddenly becomes horribly murky...) On the nature... of musicality Michael Jarrell, born...

26 historic and well-loved American melodies arranged for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. These beautiful airs and ballads in many different major and minor keys have been taught and performed...

This book by Dix Bruce contains a collection of Mandolin solos that span a range of styles and levels of difficulty and are aimed at advanced beginners to intermediate-level players. Extensive notes a...

The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace...

Crosspicking ist eine atemberaubende und wunderschöne Gitarrentechnik, die mit einem Flatpick gespielt wird. Es hat einen einzigartigen Klang, der in gewisser Weise eine Drei-Finger-Gitarre oder ein f...