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Kevin Fairbairn performs regularly throughout central Europe and the eastern United States, and specializes in the performance, improvisation, and composition of experimental music. His commitment to exploring sound have led to many unique projects both within notated music and beyond.
He is committed to the exploration of new techniques and media in the language of contemporary trombone, and develops these ideas in solo, multimedia, and improvisation settings. His performances and research in this domain have been featured at festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Donaueschingen Summer Courses for New Music, and the on dialogue Festival in Vienna. In 2017, he was awarded a grant from the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present his solo compositions at Austrian cultural forums throughout the world. Beyond his own compositions and concepts, his solo projects have involved close collaboration with composers including Vinko Globokar, Sehyung Kim, Michael Baldwin, Curtis Rumrill, and Richard Barrett. Since 2013, he has performed regularly with Klangforum Wien, with whom he has appeared as a soloist numerous times, and Collegium Novum Zürich, of which he is a member. As an ensemble musician, he has performed at major concert halls and festivals throughout Europe, where he has worked with composers including Pierluigi Billone, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Enno Poppe, Hans Zender, Ashley Fure, Richard Barrett, Timothy McCormack, Marco Momi, Lucia Ronchetti, Wojtek Blecharz, Bernard Lang, Klaus Lang, Carola Bauckholt, and many others. |
Kevin collaborates frequently with young and emerging composers, and advocates extensively to develop new and experimental chamber music for the trombone. His duos with long-standing musical allies Joao Carlos Pacheco (Blechtrommel) and Coleman Goepfert (Winston/Goepfert Duo) have served as principal laboratories for these engagements. With these duos, among others, Kevin has premiered pieces by Eric Egan, Leo Collin, Daniel Riegler, Fernando Manassero, Karlheinz Essl, Antoine Chessex, Santiago Diez-Fischer, Beat Furrer and many others.
Kevin also maintains an active practice as a researcher, academic, and teacher. With respect to his work on experimental notations that explore the physical entanglements of music-making, he has presented papers and given lectures at Utrecht University (9th Conference on the New Materialisms), the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, and the University of Vienna. He has additionally given masterclasses and guest artist recitals at universities in America, Europe, and Asia.
Kevin Fairbairn is also a brass instrument maker. He apprenticed many years with master craftsman George McCracken and later worked for the S.E. Shires Company in Boston. He performs on a trombone of his own design and construction.
Kevin also maintains an active practice as a researcher, academic, and teacher. With respect to his work on experimental notations that explore the physical entanglements of music-making, he has presented papers and given lectures at Utrecht University (9th Conference on the New Materialisms), the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, and the University of Vienna. He has additionally given masterclasses and guest artist recitals at universities in America, Europe, and Asia.
Kevin Fairbairn is also a brass instrument maker. He apprenticed many years with master craftsman George McCracken and later worked for the S.E. Shires Company in Boston. He performs on a trombone of his own design and construction.
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Der amerikanische Posaunist Kevin Fairbairn hat sich auf die Aufführung von zeitgenössischer und experimenteller Musik spezialisiert und tritt regelmässig in ganz Zentraleuropaauf. Im Jahr 2013 ging er in die Schweiz, um bei Mike Svoboda an der Musik-Akademie Basel zu studieren. Seither spielt er als Gastmusiker regelmässig mit dem Klangforum Wien und dem Collegium Novum Zürich.
Kevin Fairbairn arbeitet häufig mit jungen Komponistinnen und Komponisten zusammen und hat bereits zahlreiche Stücke zur Uraufführung gebracht. Besonders intensiv, widmet er sich der Erprobung neuer Techniken des zeitgenössischen Posaunenspieles. Seine diesbezüglichen Ideen entwickelt er sowohl als Solist als auch in multimedialen und improvisatorischen Kontexten. Kevin Fairbairn hat auch als Instrumentenbauer gearbeitet. Seine einschlägige Ausbildung erhielt er bei George McCracken, danach arbeitete er bei der S.E. Shires Company in Boston. Kevin Fairbairn baute und reparierte alle Arten von Blechblasinstrumenten und spielt eine von ihm selbst gebaute Posaune. Bevor Kevin Fairbairn nach Europa kam, studierte er an der University of Maryland College Park, an der Bowling Green State University und an der Boston University. |
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