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Harry Sparnaay

also known as Harry Sparnaay

Born
14 April 1944
Died
12 December 2017
Age
73 years
Resting places
Composers & conductors Famous people, Netherlands Countries, Musicians & singers Famous people

Biography

Harry Sparnaay, officieel Harry Willem Sparnaaij (Amsterdam, 14 april 1944 – Lloret de Mar, 12 december 2017), was een Nederlands basklarinettist, componist en dirigent.

Biografie

Sparnaay studeerde klarinet bij Ru Otto aan het Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Na zijn afstuderen legde hij zich toe op de basklarinet. Hij was oprichter van het Basklarinet Collectief, een groep voor 9 basklarinetten, waaronder contrabasklarinetten. Hij vormde met pianist Polo de Haas het duo Fusion Moderne. Sinds 1982 vormde hij met fluitist Harrie Starreveld en pianist René Eckhardt het trio Het Trio.

Sparnaay heeft jarenlang gewerkt als docent basklarinet en eigentijdse muziek aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en het Utrechts Conservatorium. Tot zijn studenten behoren Michael Lowenstern en Lori Freedman.

Omdat er voor de basklarinet weinig solostukken bestonden, verzocht Sparnaay alle componisten die hij van naam kende een stuk voor hem te componeren. Dat leverde meer dan 650 composities op, geschreven door onder anderen Claudio Ambrosini, Luciano Berio, Gerard Brophy, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Fanco Donatoni, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey, Mary Finsterer, Andrew Ford, Jonathan Harvey, Maki Ishii, Sukhi Kang, Tristan Keuris, Mark Kopytman, Jos Kunst, Helmut Lachenmann, Ton de Leeuw, Theo Loevendie, Roderik de Man, Michael Smetanin, Maurice Weddington, Iannis Xenakis en Isang Yun.

In 1997 trouwde Sparnaay met de Argentijnse organist Silvia Castillo, met wie hij sinds 2000 het duo Levent vormde.

Harry Sparnaay overleed op 12 december 2017 op 73-jarige leeftijd in Lloret de Mar in Spanje.

Docent

Sparnaay doceerde 30 jaar lang aan musici die uit de hele wereld naar hem toekwamen, hier een selectie per land:

Source: Wikipedia, available under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Sparnaay

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