kerryturner | May 23, 2009
I have always loved Italy! I get there as often as I can. And if I can combine it with a performance either with the Luxembourg Philharmonic or the AHQ, all the better. This time it was the OPL (Lux Phil). I was scheduled to play only the Dvorak Symphony Nr. 2 (or 7) on […]
kerryturner | May 11, 2009
Very often, the members of the AHQ are asked how we coordinate our horn quartet schedules with our busy orchestral schedules. Our answers usually revolve around the praising of a system which allows us to purchase, at our own costs, the necessary replacement in the orchestra. We also point out the fact that European orchestras […]
kerryturner | April 30, 2009
There has been some considerable interest lately in my “Concerto for Low Horn and Orchestra”. Interestingly enough, we have just recorded this work on CD; it along with the “Introduction and Main Event” for horn quartet and orchestra, the “Concerto for Tuba” and the orchestral tone poem “Karankawa”. This project was recently completed and I […]
kerryturner | April 28, 2009
Twelve years ago, during an AHQ trip to Hong Kong, I met up with the Mr. Phil Brink, who was at that time, the bass-trombonist in the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Phil wanted to commission me to compose a concerto for his instrument. It was a strange time for me in my life. I was going […]
kerryturner | April 17, 2009
As I mentioned in the earlier blogs, there is a grand European tour for the American Horn Quartet approaching with great rapidity. I have been working on all of the hundreds details around the clock. Yet STILL there is always the unexpected which pops up when you least desire it to. In this case, it […]
kerryturner | April 7, 2009
Here it is, the 7th of April, and I am only now sitting down to write about the AHQ U.S. tour which officially ended over two weeks ago. It was a very successful tour, there is no doubt about that. But I had made the journey to the States several days prior to the first […]
kerryturner | February 10, 2009
From March 7th until March 22nd, I will be on the road with those grumpy old men from the American Horn Quartet. We shall be performing and coaching in five different locations in the US: Commerce and Mt. Vernon, Texas, U. T. at Austin, the IHS Northwest Horn Workshop in Ithaca, NY, Columbia, South Carolina […]
kerryturner | February 2, 2009
Plausible Interest Chamber music by Kerry Turner – reviewed by PATRIC STANDFORD ‘… accessible, neatly made, technically challenging …’ Kerry Turner is a Texan by birth, a native of San Antonio, but for the last twenty years has been resident in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, a notable French […]
kerryturner | January 16, 2009
For those of you who are interested in a larger ensemble work of mine, I would like to suggest you take a look at “Rhapsody” for nine Instruments which was composed in 2001. The instrumentation for this 13- minute fantasy piece is flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and contrabass. There is a […]
kerryturner | January 2, 2009
I would like to make an advertisement for two of my best works, “Six Lives of Jack McBride” for horn, tenor, violin and piano and “Quarter-After-Four” for horn, violin and piano. “SIX LIVES OF JACK MCBRIDE” was commissioned by Charles Putnam and the IHS Meir Rimon Foundation. It was premiered in 1994 at a recital […]