Super Stella

Summer 2015 – With the wonderful combination of the Bennewitz Quartet and clarinet player Harry-Imre Dijkstra in Groningen

On a Sunday in March I had a concert with the wonderful Bennewitz Quartet and clarinet player Harry-Imre Dijkstra in the magnificent Hinckaerts House in the city of Groningen.They offered a foretaste of our new project project: a clarinet quintet that I will be working on this season. The foretaste was offered with a little new piece of mine: Super ‘Stella. In attendance was a very kind and enthousiastic crowd representing Board and membership of the Büchli Meijer-Fest Foundation. The piece is a dance-like klezmerization of the age old ‘Ave Maris Stella’ – older even than the wonderful Hinckaerts House, which is the earliest know brick building in Groningen.