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April 2021
Colloquium on Valerie Coleman’s “American Vein” at Gustavus Adolphus College
Rolf Erdahl and Carrie Vecchione's duo OboeBass! performs Valerie Coleman’s American Vein: a musical roadtrip across America exploring some of the things that are great for all Americans. Discussions of Commissioning, grant writing, recording, and collaborating with composers. Wed., April 21, 7:30-8:30 PM Zoom link will be shared with students. Public access may be possible. Stay posted! This piece was made possible by a 2018 Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America, with generous support from the…
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OboeBass! Live from Med City Free Livestream Concert
Carrie Vecchione and Rolf Edahl of OboeBass! invite you to join their pioneering journey of creating a delightfully engaging new genre of music for oboe and bass. We think you'll agree oboe and bass are two great sounds that complement one another and sound great together! Enjoy crossover musical influences from jazz, folk and classical traditions of Norway, Italy, Finland, and America, plus music to accompany the ethereal and whimsical visual art of Cy DeCosse. Music of Grieg, Foster, Tim…
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So What Does the World’s Only OboeBass! Duo Do, Anyway? Entrepreneurship Seminar at Central Michigan U
"What Does the World's Only OboeBass! Duo Do?" We'll provide some online answers to that question and discuss creative possibilities of building a musical career from scratch with students at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. We'll perform a lecture/recital sampling of our concert repertoire along with excerpts of our educational programs, with handouts with tips and food for thought about putting together a rewarding musical career, on or off the beaten path. Currently open to CMU music students. Send…
Find out more »Mindekirken Tuesday Open House: OboeBass! Shares Norwegian Music and Folktales
Mindekirken presents OboeBass! for the Feb. 2021 installment of their Tuesday Open House Series of cultural programs. Norway has a living folk tradition of music and stories that permeates the culture and continues to influence new art works. We will share stories and play some traditional folk tunes and national songs, including music of Grieg, Nordråk, as well as some current composers influenced by Norwegian music and folktales. We will provide song lyrics and encourage participants to sing along exuberantly…
Find out more »May 2020
OboeBass! Livestream Concert on PerformingArts.Live
OboeBass! presents a free Livestream concert, Friday, May 8, 7:00 pm CDT on PerformingArts.Live The program will last approximately 40 minutes, and features works composed for OboeBass! by Timothy Goplerud, "The third member of the OboeBass! duo," Adrian Mann, Principal Bass and Staff Composer of the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, and Valerie Coleman, hailed by Washington Post Music Critic Anne Midgette as “one of the Top 35 Women Composers,” named Performance Today's 2020 "Classical Music Woman of the Year." Valerie Coleman's…
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Beside the concertizing and educational roles of OboeBass!, we are also the founders and organizers of a series of Coffee concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC). We're sorry that due to the Covid-19 situation, we had to postpone the Maithree - Music of Friendship concert we had planned for April 5. We still do want to get together with our LAAC Coffee Concert audiences and open it to the internet! On Sun. Apr. 5 at 2:00 pm we…
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OboeBass! Coffee Concert at the Lakeville Area Arts Center
Oboist Carrie Vecchione and bassist Rolf Erdahl of OboeBass! present an Americana-themed recital at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, Sun., March 1, at 2:00 pm. Carrie and Rolf are the founders and continuing organizers of the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC) Coffee Concert series. The couple bills themselves as "the world's only profession oboe/bass duo," and have created an extensive repertoire of crossover classical music for their unique combination of instruments that they perform around the country in concerts and…
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OboeBassFluteCello! at the Lakeville Area Arts Center
Carrie Vecchione and Rolf Erdahl of OboeBass! team up/face off with Julie Johnson and Jacqueline Ultan of J2J. Exciting crossover styles, sounds, tunes, and combinations!
Find out more »May 2018
OboeBass! Coffee Concert at Hastings Arts Center
OboeBass! plays a short coffee concert of original, engaging oboe/bass tunes. Music by Tim Goplerud, Adrian Mann, Julie Johnson, Eric Hansen, and Stephen Foster. Free and open to the public of all ages!
Find out more »March 2018
OboeBass! in Zeitgeist Early Music Festival Concert: Julius Eastman’s “Femenine”
We're thrilled to be guest artists for this year's installment of Zeitgeist's Early Music Festival! We perform on the March 23 performance of Julius Eastman's hypnotic, minimalist masterpiece, Femenine. Here's info on the whole festival. Zeitgeist is amazing!!! Zeitgeist’s 8th Annual Early Music Festival explores the powerful contributions of our musical pioneers with a celebration of African American minimalist composer Julius Eastman. Eastman’s vibrant, virtuosic, and rhythmically aggressive music, and the racially and sexually charged nature of his work challenged the musical establishment…
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