| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Feb-2013 Holywell Music Room | The virtuoso oboe: Christopher Redgate, Michael Finnissy and Abbey Oboes |
Oboist Christopher Redgate pulled a number of facts out of the bag in his pre-concert conversation with composer Michael Finnissy. The performance would see the newest oboe (the Howarth-Redgate model) played in Europe’s oldest concert hall (Oxford’s Holywell Music Room). Redgate would also be playing the lupophon (one of only four active), and the performance of Finnissy’s piece Âwâz-e Niyâz would only be its second complete outing.
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| 26-Jun-2012 The Forge, Camden | Microtonal Oboe at The Forge |
| Last night was a busy night for classical music in London, with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela, the LSO and Bernard Haitink all performing in various places around the city. But the smart kids were avoiding all that at The Forge in Camden, chilling to the sweet, complicated sounds of Christopher Redgate and his microtonal oboe.
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