Links

Double Reed Links	Single Reed Links	Music Education Links
Midi Links	General Information Links	For those lighter moments...!
	Links to customers &  ensembles

Suppliers of Howarth instruments outside the UK

USA

• Nora Post, e-mail: click here
• Shawna Lake at Oboe Chicago, e-mail: click here
• The McFarland Double Reed Shop , e-mail: click here Oboe & English Horn Specialist
• MMI (Midwest Musical Imports)
• Alyssa McKeithen, e-mail: click here.

Canada

Bryan Taylor, Edmonton, e-mail: Click here

Australia

• Richard Craig

Links to Customers & Ensembles

• Gordon Hunt, includes details of future concerts.
• Emily Pailthorpe, and the London Conchord Ensemble, including details of future concerts.
• Ruth Bolister, contains details of recent CD release
• Linda Merrick, includes details of future concerts.
• Stefan Harg - music, education, recording, articles...
• Ramon Wodkowski - high quality clarinet mouthpieces...
• Limerick Wind Ensemble
  
• Stella Compton Dickinson Counsellor, Music Therapist, Cognitive Analytic Therapist
• New Noise
  New Noise are a unique oboe & percussion duo, who specialise in the performance of new music.
• Intriplicate, a flute, oboe and piano trio based in the north-west.
• Christopher Redgate International soloist & AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, Royal Academy of Music, London.
• Tribute to Anthony Camden

Double Reed Links

• British Double Reed Society
  Double Reed News
  the BDRS magazine
• BDRS Publications
  music published by the BDRS
• International Double Reed Society
  • IDRS Archive
  • The Bassoon-Family Fingering Companion
  • Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox International Competition
  • Stolen Double Reed Instruments Registry
• IDRS Deutschland
• ADRS (Australasian Doublereed Society)
• Wilhelm Heckel GmbH
• Heckelphone repertoire
• Amoris International Ltd
  Details of cor anglais, oboe d'amore and bass oboe music and CDs in unusual combinations.
• Bassoon, Reeds and More...
  includes MIDI files of bassoon works
• Bassoon tips for the beginner
• French bassoon site.   In French, but includes info on making French bassoon reeds
• Brian Moses' Double Reed Page
• Vincent Parizeau's webpage - all sorts of info for bassoonists!
• The Cor Anglais Page
  author Geoffrey Browne
• Ian Glen Homepage The Glens: Bassoon and Piano from the Brighton based dynamic duo.
• Contrabass Website
  includes information on contrabassoon, contrabass oboe, heckelphone and sarrusophone.
• The Contrabassoon
• www.contrabass.com
  If it registers on a seismograph when it plays...
• Contrabassoon discussion group
• The Crumhorn Homepage
  compiled by Nicholas Lander
• Double Reed Archive Index
• Double Reed Information
• Doublereed-l
  e-mail discussion list for topics of interest to double reed players
• The Double Reed FTP Archive
  Information about arundo donax cane
• Bernd Moosmann Bassoons
• Renaissance Consort

Single Reed Links

• Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain
  CASS aims to encourage and develop the playing of both the clarinet and saxophone and to provide a major resource for its members.
• Clarinet Information
• The National Sax Choir of Great Britain
• Lomax Classic mouthpieces
  Howarth are sole UK importers
• Clark W Fobes Clarinet products
  Howarth are sole UK importers
• Vandoren
  Vandoren make many essential products for clarinet players
• Selmer
  
• Buffet Clarinets
  Buffet clarinet page, with a brief history of the company
• Hans Zinner mouthpieces
• Online Clarinet Resource
• Interesting article on different editions of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto
• Jazz Trek
  
For Jazz enthusiasts, Clarinetists and Music lovers, sponsored by Joe Lukasik and Friends
• Matt Telfer - sax tuition
  
• A fascinating insight into recreating a Grenser Clarinet once owned by Bernhard Crusell, by Pete Worrell.
  

General Reference and Information Links

• Download backing tracks for your exam pieces!
• BachTrack"The world's best way to find live classical music!"
• Blackwood Conservation
• Cadenza.org
  Resources for classical and contemporary music and musicians
• Chambermusic.co.uk
  Listings site for chamber musicians
• "Classicweb"
  including listings of auditions for orchestral positions internationally
• Dolmetsch recorders
  including recorders for one-handed players, key mechanism designed and built by Howarth
• Dr Downing Music
  information on books about tips for double and single reeds
• Fingering charts for all woodwind instruments, incl trills
• Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM - Pompidou Centre, Paris)
• Martin Schuring's Advice & Tips page  (mostly relevant to USA)
• Orchestral Excerpts
  One of the best catalogues of orchestral extracts for auditions compiled by Prof. Jeffery Lyman
• Original music and arrangements for winds
• Deben Music - DEBEN MUSIC was established in 1993 and specialises in music for woodwind...
• Wind & String Quartets, Jazz Bands Quartets, Trios & Duos for weddings, dinners & corporate events throughout England, Wales & Scotland.

Music Education Links

• Music 'can boost wider learning' - BBC News article about the success of the UK Wider Opportunities programme, instrumental group teaching for primary age children.
• 'Wow, it’s music next' - the report refered to in the BBC News article about the success of the UK Wider Opportunities programme. (2Mb download pdf file).
• 'Wow, it’s music next' - executive summary of the report about the success of the UK Wider Opportunities programme.
• 'The power of music: its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people' "Tune in - Year of Music" report by Professor Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, University of London.
• Federation of Music Services (FMS)
• Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (UK)
• ABRSM download page NEW!! Download tracks with and without acccompaniment (where relevant) to hear what your grade piece sounds like! Currently the only woodwind available are flute and clarinet.
• Bibliography of Bassoon Theses and Dissertations
• Birmingham Conservatoire
• Benslow Music Trust. Residential and day courses for adult amateur musicians - including a number of courses for wind ensembles and individual wind instruments - throughout the year at the lovely campus in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK.
• El Sistema (Venezuela) The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela (FESNOJIV - Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela), commonly known as 'El Sistema' is a government-funded organization, founded by maestro José Antonio Abreu, aimed at systematizing music education and promoting the collective practice of music through symphony orchestras and chorus as a means of social organization and communitarian development.
• El Sistema USA "A visionary global movement that transforms the lives of children through music. A new model for social change."
• EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence)
  David Cope at UCSC
• Guildhall School of Music & Drama (UK)
• Institute for Music Research (US)
• London Musical Arts Orchestra Mini Maestro Family Concerts. Treat your children to John Landor’s Mini Maestro Family Concerts, a fun-filled hour of musical magic for young people from ages four to twelve. Where else can they have such hands-on fun with live music - sitting in the orchestra, conducting, beating the drums and clapping and singing along to the music?
• LSO Discovery LSO Discovery can give people their first encounter with an orchestra, add an extra dimension to an LSO concert, or simply bring people together to experience the power of music. LSO Discovery is the London Symphony Orchestra’s education and community programme.
• The Music Manifesto (UK)The Music Manifesto campaigns to ensure that all children and young people in the UK have access to high quality music education.
• Music Teachers @ Home
  Provider of home visit music lessons throughout the UK
• National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
• Research Perspectives in Music Education
• Royal Academy of Music (UK)
• Royal College of Music (UK)
• Royal Northern College of Music (UK)
• Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (UK)
• Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (UK)
• Sibelius Academy (Finland)
• Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basle, Switzerland)
• World-Class Clarinet Lessons in Mayfair, London
• World-Class Clarinet Lessons for children in Mayfair, London
• The Basics of Learning Music Theory (and lots of other aspects of playing music...!)
• The Tutor Pages website "connecting UK tutors and students"

MIDI Links

• Bassoon, Reeds and More...
  includes MIDI files of bassoon works
• Classical MIDI Archives
• Classical MIDI Connection
• Classical Music MIDI Page
• The Internet Renaissance Band

For those lighter moments...

• The official Hoffnung website