Power, Passion and Potica Andrej Žust, horn player in the Berlin Philharmonic, celebrates horn, life and Slovenia on Sarah´s Horn Hangouts! Special guest Gregor Jagodic from the Slovenian Embassy in Berlin. Thanks to Bostjan Lipovsek and Brina Zust for the photos and videos! And to Jakob and George for the April 1st surprise… Berlin, April 1st 2019
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[Music] hello everybody and welcome back to the Han Hangouts we are so proud to have a special guest today it’s so tell me Emily since when have you been concept masked off the billion for the money long time since like ten years where do you ask [Music] welcome back to the horn hangouts well what did you think of that happy
April Fool’s Day I know maybe you’re not supposed to do April Fool’s jokes after twelve o’clock but in the States and all over that side of the world it’s still before midday and it was just a good gag no matter what time of day welcome back I hope you liked it yeah I’m Sarah not Jakob and I have a fantastic guest today
I was looking forward to it so much I’m Dre just and ray hello you don’t have to wear the hair da-da-da-dah what are we gonna do that’s quite gross actually yeah I know well if you leave it then we might think it’s a dog welcome welcome to the horn hangouts I’m really excited it’s a bit warm under that hair okay people are loving is hope you love that you guys right in let us know where you’re watching from and if you’re watching on
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Android stories yeah there’s a lot of people watching in Ljubljana I think today Dober Dan ljubljana slovenia top region overdone DoubleDown Ljubljana and you’re not really a big media guy well you’re probably didn’t if you google me you don’t see a lot of me I mean they’re not many and nothing you see the brother Phil website and that’s it and for an interviewer even though we’re colleagues since years what do
I know enigma enigma’ well that’s all changed now and I appreciate a stream unite sticker yeah that’s much appreciated on there we glad we finally got you here on the Hangout people are watching Mississippi USA Brazil Louis Garcia is watching in Brazil hello Louis Orange County Francis an orange counting f1 Patrick is watching and they’re watching Budapest
Island Budapest Argentina Oslo Norway Portland Maine my mom my mom is watching hi mom she’s got a camera a camera is there yes mum likes to do screenshots of concerts and things so Russell in New Zealand what time is it where were you all are let us know what you’re drinking well here’s to a clock so T time
T time that’s right well maybe we’ll look look we have to say a big thank you because we’ve decorated this green room in the Philemon II in your honor and we’ve had help when you came when Andre came in he he couldn’t believe what he was seeing we have the flags from the Sylvanian embassy yeah and we have this roll up behind you
I feel love I feel Slovenia that’s their new logo and they are so proud of you there oh yeah we have to we should we should be wearing a yeah that sticker yeah put the sticker on your I called him up and Gregor Yahoo did ya gotta change Gregor if you’re watching we absolutely love you I went to meet him and he gave me all this stuff
Slovenian coffee Slovenian chocolate actually chocolate Wow seeds to plant in our garden that’s good I have to do my back there you go and all these books Slovenian it looks really nice there yeah it’s a lot of mountains a little bit of seaside there’s only 50 kilometres of the seaside but it’s nice it looks amazing but this is what interests me the most to be honest this is a book called potica patita but it says potica what is that patita what is a potato dita is a traditional cake for holidays like
Easter Easter or Christmas our grandma’s usually make them for Christmas and can you make them I did it last last year in Batman you know what’s pretty good I have an E I was afraid like to share it with you because I’m not sure how it’s gonna be it wasn’t it was vegetarian I was not vegan that’s right
I got mine vegan I can’t get my sticker off how’d you get your sticker off so Gregor okay he gave me all this stuff he gave me pens and we have any brought the driver came today and brought the flag Slovenia is very proud of you I think you very much yeah this here my skirt put on the horn hanger a t-shirt right in the middle there you go
I love Slovenia they are very proud of you it’s a small country small country only two million people in it’s incredible and and here there at the Embassy you’ve done some chamber music for them and and and they celebrate they have these little concerts yeah a couple of concerts a year they do and I was there the opening concert for the first concent then last year we did a concert with all the people from
Slovenia who are working in German Orchestra so from by t-shirt and foam Casey Jones how many we did Beethoven separate so we’re just only 7 but there are many others as well yeah you know how many musicians are in their own in Germany yeah I would say like 12 wow that’s actually quite a lot Daniel is watching from
Ljubljana television Slovenia oh hello now you had fun with them didn’t oh yeah last week we are doing a small portrait about me so was a lot of fun so I’m used to do here and we have had some Tim of course who’s up very late at night in Melbourne and I’m we’re very grateful especially to Jakob for making that little film at the beginning because
I think it was quite hot under all that hair oh yeah I just had it before one minute and was like those of you who just joined in you missed the best part well one of the best parts of the of the hangout but you’ll get to see in the archive so there you go Brazil Cleveland Ohio gosh there’s so many people watching this is
Bulgaria France Andrew Bain is watching in Cabo Andrew good morning it must be very early in the morning what time is enough six or seven six cocktail time get out on the beach there so get your questions in for Andre because the thing about the horn hangouts is that I don’t like to ask my guests questions which you can google the answers to the problem with
Andre is you can’t Google any answers because there’s nothing about him online not a lot anyway there’s only one source [Music] there’s only one source and that’s him so get the questions in and we’re going to start from the very beginning all right and we have a very sweet little photo of you playing the horn how old were you when you started
I was around 9 18 9 or 10 and this photo we have of you is a little bit it was you know a bit were you a little bit older that one and this one I was around 12 or 13 okay so that’s a little bit later yeah um and I heard that your dad didn’t really want you to well actually first he asked me if
I wanna play an instrument or something and sexual and because my sister was playing piano I also wanted to play piano but the piano class was completely full and in Slovenia I have to tell this in Slovenia is a big tradition of blast cappella so like brass bands every little village has a brass band and also my village look at it has a one brass band and as usual there are no horn players you know so the director of the music school was also at the same time conductor of that brass band and he really needed the horn player so
I asked him if it’s possible to play piano but he said no no it’s full but why don’t you try this and he showed me like really old it was a Czech horn I think was the Amati oh wow yeah it was completely you know green and so I’m really not nice this I’m not sure but you know just try it you know just for a couple of months you wanted to be in the brass band well not at the beginning
I was not yeah and I was really lucky at the beginning because ahead professor Yanis Palance he was really nice of him he showed me the way how to play the horn and him he arranged the first gig for me when I was like 10 or 11 we did a recording for some I think was a movie of age 1011
I probably Wow so that’s why when I decided like who this could be like something interesting to do in your life yeah but your dad was worried about you yeah well you know that he was just looking at you know people who were who are playing in a that brass band or like professional orchestras and he always seen after the concert you know we like to go for a beer or something you know to you know relax a bit well yeah we are social but instead that’s wrong so he he had an idea that all the musicians are like yeah you know artists
I look a little bit more boying you know they like to drink a lot and so on oh no never don’t its water but then at the end theme no he’s really happy actually I’m sure he is you came a long way oh that just a beginning he had a little bit concerns but there yeah so age 10 you were recording your your first film first yeah it was some
I don’t know exactly what was it but I remember we were in studio recording yeah yeah what that was cool and but were you already in ljubljana by then no no I was telling me I started in ljubljana when i was 14 at music high school yeah in Osseo give nauseum okay so it’s like it like it yeah like like a specialists music school yeah you have all the normal music and who was your teacher there there was a metal
Thomas you met him when you’re playing yeah yeah we all went to Ljubljana and played the Schumann concept Orchestra I was like mm yeah that was really that was I love that it’s so nice to be with Orchestra maybe we ate that cake there I seem to remember it was not patita but was given Itza the other oh yeah so many nice sweet things there
I have there like sweet so you went and you studied with him and today there for four years yeah and I also started to to play as a substitute in although orchestra in Ljubljana so opera house Radio Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra you were quite young I think you played at age 17 or something first time with with with them or you playing professionally already 16 17
Oh 16 years was a first gig I had with the radio Orchestra in Washington my someone we have to mention someone who’s been a great help for this hangout Bostian who is watching now live I hope bastian bastian he sent quite a few photos and we actually have some nice photos of you in him which Jakob are going to blue one has sort of you look like you have chickenpox like once yeah we were playing some
I know some game there were some questions and answers and if your answers wrong you got a stemple something like that ah so you guys answered a lot of wrong was a lot of wrong answers there was a drinking game sorry mom sorry dad sorry dad and then there was another one of you two in cowboy hats yeah that was a tour with
Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2010 nice world tour actually we were in Israeli I went to the stage went to the Europe like one month of you know having fun Bostjan is not that much older than you but he became your teacher well he is born the same game as I am 18 of July yeah just only 10 years older well he was my teacher at a
Kevin Music Academy but we were playing a lot of times together I was always playing second and next to him in the radio Orchestra we did a lot of gigs with a horn quarter even we were also a soloist so we played the Hyden double concerto and tell concertos and so on we were pretty active together he sent me a lot of photos of you for the
Hangout and he also said that the Academy in Ljubljana is very proud of you and in the horn room he made a little video do you have that one yak of France to show hello this is Academy of Music in Ljubljana and let’s see this is the hour and basically Andre just was very rarely here lazy buggers brass players nobody practicing and this is and of course nobody has been practicing let’s see who is here and who is here actually if
Renault will be very very proud if we show him some familiar faces yeah some other familiar faces those guys those guys okay have you seen everyone and this is our former professor which under I studied to him for a year or two years I think and this is a nice picture from the 60s I think from Paris with
Courtois and professor is still in a very good shape not horn playing anymore but biking and running around with his 85 years completely completely healthy very very in good shape man and I think among all these beautiful posters are this one is lovely this one and all these lovely posters I think the winning face winning face is the mid-face
Thank You Bush done for making that video we have another little one for from you we will show you just a few more seconds I want to tell you who else is watching here Daniel Oh from Norway Bergen Philharmonic we have singe Cindy I wanted to know about your audition with the Berlin Film will get to all the questions in a minute thank you very much
Midori is watching in Tokyo hey Midori and we that’s really quite amazing there’s this incredible I’m loving us coffee horn his after mouthpiece questions so we and he wants to know how the Slovenian chocolate is it’s really good is it really good sweet we have some okay so so boss John getting back to Boston because he was a very important person are you what was he like as a teacher what what did you get from him well you know he was the one of the first foreign place young horn players who went abroad from
Yugoslavia and then Slovenia he was studying with Radovan latke we change to that he was playing all over the you know the world with world you talk [Music] so he was like the first person to really make that yeah career well I guess Radovan was was he was also in Berlin for awhile for one year for them he he went back he was a solo or not the concept house
I missed that one but then he decided to go back and now his professor there his professor in Zagreb as well yeah and playing you know as a substitute although it was so nice that he was just here if you if you see on the digital comfortable we just played what did we pay domestic domestic air boss chants students in
Ljubljana because you know you guys are probably the same as me I really didn’t know anything about Slovenia and Ljubljana until I went there I still don’t know much but I remember it’s just very beautiful as you can do for you on the poster behind you but the students in the horn room sent you a little video of saying hello as well
I’m gonna show it to you now and Jakob was going to show it to everyone else so here we go [Music] under a meter is McDaniel children it’s a la polla pop assalam o interprocedural it’s a very noble Malik rat typical mo and a table top lap Ostrava inch a proper way up real salty paws Ravi extreme know is creamy in resonantly and
Ray tell me what was John was saying in Slovenian on that video yes he was just saying hi from the horn room from the Music Academy I mean he said I was not many times in in that room but it’s quite a lot there so why weren’t you in the warn room very much when you were studying well when
I was in first year of college I got first position as a solo horn that was in Opera House for one year then right after that I got the position a solo horn in Slovenia harmonic so I was playing in the orchestra all the time and I didn’t have really a lot of time to go to the
Academy and you know I was also really active as a party guy so you know I have the photos to prove it so sometimes in the morning I just couldn’t go there that was too early did you ever graduate I’m still a student [Laughter] maybe my goal but you know one day I have to I didn’t either so the
Berlin Philharmonic I am I think again I’d be Fergus maybe Fergus minimal anyway we obviously are not suitable to be but he’s good to study it’s good it’s good to study you’ve heard it from Andre here um what was it like changing from second one to first horn that’s a question that’s coming from coffee horn coffee or news coffee on where you are where are you coffee horn what was it changing when
I was dealing in Uganda yeah you were already you played second and then you play I was always like playing first in Savini a harmonic and sometimes when I have time I went to radio Orchestra to play second with the with question and sometimes also up the other way around but that’s actually great because it means the one thing
I admire admire a lot about your playing but the one thing is truly special is that you have this entire range there’s no specializing in low horn or in high horn ya know it just you because you’ve done it all he opens always like that somehow also in the horn quartet what we had it was called Horan
Horan quartet I was playing the fourth horn yeah do you mean like second dirt yeah but I was playing the Porte horn over there so I was always playing low and high so I think that’s the best way to do it is a horn player you were also enough solo horn he did send couple of times solo horn as well in low horn so you know this
I didn’t know about specializing until I came here to Germany and in London you you can’t specialize because you never know someone calls up and says there oh come and play with the other so for thorne you can’t say sorry I’m a high horn player so I guess that’s probably in Germany more or less like this like so you were actually very happy though in in in
Slovenia in the slovenia slovenian you have a picture of your horn section i think somewhere yeah yeah it’s a really nice and we have a picture also of your two colleagues playing the Varna 2 but they looked a bit sad but probably because my over there yeah well it was I mean I just have really nice memories about
Slovenia and Slovenia freaking Monica Orchestra they were really nice to me really tolerant because a lot of times I was a bit late you know they started at 9 o’clock oh really yeah oh I thought you meant you relate when you were playing but you were late to the rehearsal the rate at a later era so they were always like 5-10 minutes
I was like three and getting trouble no they were always so nice to me hey probably yeah I remember once there was a recording of bassoon concerto my colleague was doing this so he was a soloist and I was late for like 40 minutes or something so I said sorry i buy all Orchestra coffee that’s why they never told you that they were happy to get this what’s it called bar bar country bar cafe
Slovenian coffee you know we could yeah it’s good my wife really likes it by the way greener was a great help as well with the research and she sent me some photos and she told me some this morning something but she said just go there and enjoy Sabrina if you’re watching I know a man Mia do you think they’re watching well
MIT in school and me is probably asleep probably sleep okay yes it’s nap time so you have to get back there quickly huh so you and you had a good time there and it was a nice peaceful life you could show up late to rehearsal why on earth did you decide you wanted to come to Berlin oh well that was stiffened or was once in
Ljubljana playing solo with the one Slovenian Chamber Orchestra for he was playing heightened first concerto so d-major and then in second half we played music a leash pass together so I asked him me if I can play for him a little bit so he has some comments and so on and then he mentioned you know Android you play pretty good why don’t you try our current academy and
I was like Karen Academy and that’s something new and then he explained the Khan Academy and that was in November 2008 and in December 2008 I was already in Berlin doing audition for the cotton academy which you probably know how it was everybody I remember very well I was pretty good until the last round yeah you were great actually you came in as the last person because we do it now for medical order so you came in in which chef and door and
I had heard like 60 people that day and we were oh and then in comes number Z and and you played who were like that sounds lovely we were so excited we thought we’d found our guy and then you played absolutely terrible orchestral excerpts yeah sorry I was just so unprepared for it thanks well we took you anyway yeah well thank you yeah we took you anyway because both of us just sort of won your sound was just perfect for us and and
I remember stuff on door saying don’t worry I kick his butt yeah well he did but he was he or teacher no no definitely he kicked your butt too he kicked my butt yeah because there was like two editions for low horn so the first one was first round was good second one was good third round again the orchestra excess
I was like and I remember being really angry I know there were so many people came out why did you do I learned it yeah well I did but I was not expecting that I’m gonna go to I’m gonna come to the last round but I remember after that every time I had a lesson which Stefan is asking was like lady aunty play this everything by heart of course so that’s good because then needs work yeah and here you are thank you
Stefan yes thank you Stefan and Stefan for kicking buds and I’m very happy about that because you are just a dream colleague we we all play low horn so we sort of rotate you play a lot of second but you play fourth six you’ve got a premiere on Varna tuba coming up right yes yeah so so that all worked out well but then so somebody’s asked why how was changing from first tour to playing low horn in
Berlin what was the biggest change and be who then be right in and tell us where you’re watching from so the biggest well I was always as I said before I was playing second horn a lot with in Ljubljana so that was not a big problem the problem was just like adjusting to the orchestra a little bit
I was always sometimes the first to play I didn’t know how long do you have to wait you know sometimes Simon was conducting a did book and who was the first and this was the actually the main the biggest problem for me you know just not to play the first so I was always waiting that Stefan started and then
I joined that’s a good second one that’s what we have to do you have to get used to that and the the the the dynamic level that we play out here was that similar or was that because I remember when I came that was something I came from the Opera so I I mean they they flattened me in the very food
I mean loved I was always I always like to play Laos but then soft playing here was like really really soft so I had a couple of troubles with that so I was practicing really soft laying as well yeah yeah that was really no big thing but moving over to Germany and leaving that sort of happy stress-free party life that wasn’t easy and then and then
Brina came with you I know you know first time I was in Berlin was 2004 so when I landed there I want you to see that I was like wow this is the place I could leave actually you know I really liked Berlin for in the first yeah from the first impression I did year was it was
November okay no a year but still you know of course we went to a lot of clubs and so on know things and I really liked the horror and we went to listen to not Olimpica money but something else I think and I was like wow look at this great so four years later five years later I was here as
Academy yeah Wow so you’ve never regretted it you have to get up at ten o’clock in the morning cuz here you cannot be late for rehearsal no I’m always I never I think I was never late until now sometimes we sometimes we get a little bit worried with Andre you know as always we’ve learned at five to ten not to be worried but about one minute to ten then we do get worried be like
I show up somehow um he’s a Kyrgyz asks do you miss being a first form well you know sometimes you missed on Tchaikovsky five or something like that but then something really hard comes and then you see Stefan is playing it really good and I’m just like oh thanks God I don’t have to play that no yeah scary sometimes you know especially in this hall yeah well everything gets really so silent yeah and then you just have to play all one note or something like that or
I don’t know how he does that but you do um Bostian Bush John a master Jan told me that you you weren’t really the big competition type or the big sort of concerto you did quite a lot of concertos but your main interest was chamber music always an orchestral playing that’s what you went off that well I didn’t do a lot of competitions just couple of national ones and maybe two international ones but small ones yeah but then
I since I was 16 or 17 I played already in woodwind quintet then I had brass trio I played bigger chamber things I mean the chamber music is always the brass picture that’s on the poster and now you’re playing bruster you’re here with Gabon recovering yes / yeah you’re using the sec motive what sort of trip what sort of repertoire is there there’s not a lot but there are some nice pieces so that’s what we always play then each of us plays something solo with the with the piano yeah so you do play solo yeah yeah of course from time to time strongswan yeah maybe
Some more stuff concertos I did a couple of I did ones gear panchetta you’re very brave you know well you are or do you just make a challenge a year you have to have you know that’s why I said here but how did you know what it’s like when you play in an orchestra a lot you know you’re happy to be in this sort of in this section and surrounded and
I’m much more happy as a section player than I am as any sort of service but you you give yourself ya know this kind of solo actually I prefer to play solo of Strauss band and play solo or nin Orchestra yeah yeah somehow it’s easier yeah not so many people who respect to all the soul horn players absolutely absolutely but you just play
Beethoven sonata here in a sold out for the money oh yeah oh that was nice on Sunday morning Sunday morning 11:00 I show up on the stage and it was full okay that’s fine do you get nervous I’m always nervous a little bit you know even if it’s a small thing in just you know orchestra to play a long one long note you know you get a little bit of excitement somehow but what do you do against it well
I mean you don’t have time these days do you even think about it cuz of your two daughters your breathing and you go yeah yeah he closed their eyes sometimes there you go it’s not too early yeah Michael do Ellen says greetings to Sarah and Andrey Andrey says he gets the best seat in the hole between Stefan door and
Sarah Willis oh well I’m a little bit further away and we do swap which I really like because it’s it’s great and even Georg now is playing second horn yeah and we’re hoping to have a new colleague sometime soon so please apply please apply we need you and it’s low horn and we like that because of course there are some things that you do a lot better than
I do like Brooke in a second horn that’s you look you’re really good at that and I’m much better on the tumor at the back I mean we both do everything but it’s nice to be able to say hey you do that and I’ll do that and but it’s nice to have colleagues you know they always can jump up for you and
I mean the orchestra if you have something I don’t know I’m some emergency or something call your college to play second because most doctors like to second horns of thorns and this way we have to say taken or forecast it’s really nice because we rotate that we do you know you play sometimes for to the horn part then denied annoying donkey show
Brooke there’s something I always second or exactly sometimes the harder than bait over nine yeah we have to throw a dice to who’s gonna play Beethoven September yeah so will will roll the dice and see so we’ve got Pierre hello from Wales Pierre is a big support of the horn Hangouts henrik from sweden heidi Oris from Truman’s burg
New York isn’t it great all these people watching people right so you want to know who’s watching in DubLi on are you gonna write in and tell us have any of you ever been to Ljubljana that’s why I’ve been I’ve been I’ve been I mean and do you miss it did you get back yes that’s why we go like three or four times a year back to
Ljubljana sometimes to play a little bit chamber music or solo with Orchestra sentence in February we just did so skiing Olaf holidays each summer we go to Croatia and Slovenia a little bit but to seaside you know the 50 kilometer seaside usually we go to Croatia have a map here is welcome Gregor here somewhere it’s not big coastline but it’s nice yeah
Matthew hi SIPP is watching hi Matthew and he’s asked who were your horn playing influences but I think we’ve had was your boss John of course rather well Vashta Nerada one and then I mean the best school for me was caring Academy ya know to play with all your guys and also to observe they were like Stefan and andronik at that time still you know this was like just like
I could just yeah I played quite quite a lot often ii with both of them and was like really the best score different they’re so different but you’re always you you cannot tell what’s better you know it’s just different yeah but both is like so and oh any advice to practice those excerpts especially when you’re getting your butt kicked well what did you do to make your excerpts better apart from
Stefan J making you play them by memory I remember I came into the room once and they were like trying to play Rienzi with no music what I cannot do that now and probably anymore but I could do it like eight or nine years ago well I love met room to get all the rhythm right because and that was also one of the reasons
I didn’t get the job I think don’t tell me about it yeah and then intonation and I was always like focusing on sound so that doesn’t matter if you play in middle register or like really low register it has to sound well you know it doesn’t have to sound extremely loud it is better that sounds good then extremely loud and ugly yeah that’s what the orchestra like do you think well there are many exercises you can use like we all know this thompson’s exercises or frøydis wrote a book as well
Farkas yes and just like exercises what you professors at master classes yeah so what is your horn playing philosophy what is like what is the most important thing for you like every day when you wake up pick up the horn you the thing is about us in the hall every day yeah maybe we always know who’s warming up don’t we but yeah when you come when you come to the corner no actually you when you take the stairs and you hear a little bit of the one you’re like right there oh yeah
I know exactly when you’re there because you have your own your own sort of set but you play a lot of music you don’t you know you have your little X exercises but you use a couple of scales so on but then then I just play concertos usually oh if I know that the tone Sonata is coming up
I play it through to play like villanelle or something like that yeah I’ll just play it so you don’t have one particular one particular warm-up that you do every day because in Germany that’s very popular to do the whoever warm-up well I do like scales yeah in two octaves that’s its take your minor diminished oh just like major in no
I did minor and that before but I usually have like three minutes to warm up and then I have to go onstage really fast and then Jim innocent young to get on this age so what happens if you’re sitting on stage and you feel okay it’s not feeling so good what do you do then pray yeah that’s what you have to do pray oh you know you try to do your best yeah as always but you know every day you cannot feel like hundred percent so just like last week you know with mother one first even in great second evening rate and then third evening
We were all a little bit I already it’s a lot too plain that the same for me because for our digital concert hall it’s usually the last concert but before that we’ve had two concerts and a dress rehearsal in this room Stefan door always says oh let’s all save ourselves always says oh not this way you play fortissimo today and he just goes for it and then we all go hurry what do we do that yeah
I mean the rehearsal you think oh why did we do that in here he’s feeling great and we’re feeling like oh but yeah the third concert was and so what do you do on days like that because we have no choice I would show up a little bit earlier then and I would do like 10 or 15 minutes warm up and look really slowly like easy things really not something difficult so on but easy slow scales are baby
Radek warming up in the horn room yeah we just play and then you’d read his book yeah incredible but it got the air moving it got the tongue moving and it sounded good yeah what more do you need so tell me I’m on the dais what did you do you got you got there bit earlier you got there bit earlier so
I started with slow scales and a little bit of RPGs and then a couple of other exercises I do you know just to get this feeling back you know sometimes you feel that your your lips are like really stiff you can just not play it like relaxed as you you always do so then then you just need like
I’m 20 minutes or half an hour to play a little bit softer maybe a lot of low register to get a lot of blood through your muscles in what else I remember my first teacher saying any fool can play with a good set of chops that’s true it’s hard to play or also Erica tell Billy always has that
Eric or Eric Eric decides to sour that chops feel terrible many plays brilliantly he please he likes to warm up a lot oh I’ve had a funny question actually Big Horn wants to know who’s Big Horn I wonder who Big Horn is Andrea what’s your favorite book favorite book like to read yeah yes to read read well blow your horn yeah who wrote that the other day
I actually read it finally oh yeah I read it before I know it’s a very good well there was it’s a very controversial book as well yeah but that’s not what I would read before you go to bed no no well usually if I read I read on on playing when I when I fly to Japan or something you know
I’ve seen you on a plane yeah a lot of times but sometimes you know for half an hour 45 minutes then you do it but after for 45 minutes yeah I’ve seen Oh Francois is watching in Munich hello Francois Francois Bastian is watching Jeremy Roe wants to know about producing enough tone when stopping in the low register all we’re getting very technical now okay um but this is this is what the horn hangouts is for
Jeremy wants to know about how getting enough sound when you stop in the in the in the low register or do you have a good tip for that if you do have give it to me I don’t want it I do I practice that’s what it one of the things I practice every day almost yeah like just scales on stop scales as well as low as you close it
Ken you know and always trying to know it has to sound well yeah we have to experiment what to do it may be to to press a little bit more in the upper lip order welcomed Napier and also to make sure you so make shorts if it’s really well silly as well because if it’s not then yeah yes it wobbles oh yeah
I think people don’t really seem to realise practicing every day is really important yeah this basic things like you know yeah like I said before scales yeah that makes you stable and also Bashir so stop knows about because sometimes you have to play a little bit lower absolute it’s okay but then lower you get ahead of this or sometimes in
Tchaikovsky seem funny thing a matter of pride that we don’t use it we don’t use it we don’t use the stop means we use our hands doesn’t matter what fun Gregor says Bravo Andrew you are a great we are proud of you I think that’s great go go go - yeah yeah that’s so nice Matthew says blow your own horn is the greatest horn pedagogy pedagogy book which is right what finger
EES do you use for low stop notes I do combination actually you know sometimes they’re foreign but a lot of times also b-flat horn yeah because just sounds it reacts better somehow sometimes see I told him to write in and now everybody’s writing and riffing off but Perry the canoe says have you always played on an Alex and if you didn’t then why did why did you switch
I played on Alex but the other model 503 yeah then I played for two years comedy and there’s 11:03 and there’s 503 rights I was raised a little bit cheaper that’s why I didn’t have money at this time so but then I played the taxman for maybe two seasons and then I switched to one of three just before coming to
Berlin okay well good you did because we like 103 yeah yeah we like a 103 also Boston was playing on out today I’m 103 I’ll say it has an incredible horn sort of really with that with the wooded captain yeah impressive caps on it I haven’t seen him on the chat yet Boston have you worked it if you worked out how to log into the chat
I wonder Wilson maybe he’s got a gig down in the water do you have plans to become a teacher one day you do actually teach in Brazil and I know a lot of people are watching yeah yeah yeah you know I was in Brazil like four five years in a row now yeah in Pelotas it’s really south of
Brazil yeah always in general for two weeks but like master class and well you know at the beginning I was not sure how should I teach what should I say to the students you know sometimes somebody comes and plays like a god and you’re like ooh what should I say now it’s not the worst movie yeah you’re sitting in a master class or my cousin comes you think please miss a note please do something so that
I know what to say then of course it started intonation but then the more you you look into more you’ll find this difficulties that he has yeah so what I just admire these kids that come in and and they always play the most difficult pieces I think I’m with favor concertinas and these kind of things yeah well that’s why
I try to break a practice this kind of what Teresa asked would you do a recording of Mozart’s horn concertos I did one already but a bit too wants her to it my old Orchestra and we are trying to find that recording right now but Boston is looking for where is it we should go to the archive of a
Slovenian Philharmonic they have probably still and it’ll be online I’m not sure if it’s on tonight if it is maybe someone can find it and post them because we would like to hear that okay you’re just practicing moves head for upstairs a little bit because last week we had an audition yeah we did we had a lot of well
I heard you practice at all not again yeah gosh there are really there are really so many lovely questions here a lot of people watching ambreena is at home and she’s watching oh nice that is nice thank you Brina we are happy to hear that everyone is wanting to know about alternative fingerings for stop corn but it’s a little bit too detailed to go into for now i what i did when i was a student was made a list with every note and i wrote literally the the fingerings being graceful and
I learned them some are better on the b-flat horn some are better on the F horn and I just I just learned okay usually I just decide while I’m playing yeah you hear that something is too high or to load and you know you literally F or something it should be it’s better on 2 & 3 sometime on
F horn you know you just have to experiment a lot of things like also with practicing and playing the horn yeah you know having your professor who tells you to do this and this and this you have to be your own professor that’s what I want to say you have to you know professors they too to give you a direction where you should go how it should sound and so on but then you have to be your own professor and teach yourself you have to experiment you have to find the ways how to play better and so yeah yeah it’s really important
I think absolutely so what have you got planned on the horn for the future what what do you want to do you’re gonna be in this orchestra until you retire well for now I’m really happy I mean I love to play with the orchestra you guys and so on I would like to do a lot of chamber music but
I’m doing it at the moment a lot so we’re lucky that we have so many small yes we’re also doing the December yes so that’s right for that yeah maybe I could also graduate I don’t know you can’t maybe we could maybe we could go together we could be honest I’m gonna graduate there I think I’d prefer that than going out to lunch speaking of
London Tim Jones is watching and so Louis is also watching in Melbourne oh that’s really nice that you two have joined us thank you I’m sure you’ve written in right there on Facebook so it’s too complicated to get them over to here the facebook chat it flashes at you whenever anyone joins the chat so you you’re it’s so distracting it’s great to see how many people are watching but then
I just want to sit and watch and say hello to everyone all the time so I I keep the board peaceful chat from the website but you will get and really will get a copy of this chat so he’ll be able to see all of you who wrote in and said hello and and it’s really just amazing to have these these few minutes to even talk to you because
I didn’t know half of this stuff I there you see no you know the only thing I did I did find out was that you that nobody seemed to know is that your horn was stolen by gypsies oh that’s a nice story there was a master class with Radwin lattaker which in Slovenia in Nava misto and around no mister is a lot of gypsies communities so we were practicing the whole day and of course after the long day of practicing we wanted to have a beer of something to drink and
I left my horn in in a trunk of my friend’s car so went for a drink and then we wanted to go home and I had to know I had I wanted to go home with one other friend so I talked to my friends if he can give me the keys and I’ll get my horn out of the trunk
I come them I opened the car and there was no horn so apparently this is the whoever sold the horn broke into the car opened the car Stowe’s a couple of things there were some other things he stole from the car closed it back and also locked it back so we couldn’t say that yeah there’s someone there was a burglar or something so
I made a lot of posters then after that through the whole Nomi 503 I still have it and then the one guy called me and I said Andrei I think I know where your horn is but I wouldn’t call the police on your butt that’s why we have to call the police I mean they stole my order well
I it’s you know what the gypsies stole it you know so maybe it’s better if I go there and do some you know I can go in bargain there so apparently the the beginning the price was like thousands or 2000 euros but then he said it was non lacquered horn so it looked a little bit messy and so on so then
I had to pay like 300 euros for it and I give us a couple a couple of years a couple of hundred years also to the guy who saved my horn so I got my horn back that’s amazing I had to buy it back they probably thought it wasn’t worth very much because it wasn’t like it because it wasn’t like a blast capella brass band or something that’s why he said they look it’s really old and you know no lacquered it’s only hundred three hundred yours we’re gonna have one one last question and then
I have a little surprise for you okay are you all ready for this surprise guys a little last question because I think it’s a good question from David see he said he’s wondering what you think which skills that a very good low horn player must have or what do we expect for someone from someone who wants to play low horn in a professional orchestra
I mean that’s a very general statement but what are your like top what will be up at the top of your list well that this person has to be really flexible with you know with intonation and hearing things you know all you have to adjust to the solo or you know oh you have to be like glued to him you know and if he goes louder you go louder if he goes faster he goes faster then you try to count the bars and you stop him you know sometimes
I was like we babysit some we babysit sometimes we all do I mean also stiffen couple of times he was like I agree I think I think fantastic ears and a big and a very quick reaction quicker reaction time is I have someone who has said he would come by because he’s very very proud of what you’re doing and
I’m just going to leave the room for a second and here does have a look at all these people I will be right back and I’m just gonna bring someone in welcome to Gregor from the Slovenian embassy yes come in and taste it I sent you a very special present oh yay now I don’t have to bake nice come and sit here alright
I we’re hoping with it I’m gonna close so you can speak it right speaking of the bet hello to everyone here both of them let me introduce Gregor yeah go ditch is that right yes and you are the cultural attache or how would you say at the Slovenian cultural and it’s a huge honor that he’s here because we don’t often get such important people here and get cakes this is tell us what you brought well this is traditional
Slovenian baked this is what this whole rap is about right yes it exists also in German and English language so it’s what our grandma’s always do you know I mean every every for every Christmas or Easter you get this kind of a fantastic did you bake it yourself no actually you’re not just the cultural attache you’ve act you’re pianist as well and you’ve got to tell us some sort of insider story about hungry
I’m gonna go and get a knife yes and we’re going to we’re going to we’re going to cut this and we’re going to show everybody what petits a taste like I tell you what I wanted to say that we’re really proud of and that we have him here at the Bernina Philharmonic’s and this is actually to prove that our musician and
Andre one of the best also here in Berlin and the one of the best if not the best orchestra plays and they stated a Voyager you must be really proud that’s such a small country and then to reach out it is the best orchestra at least that’s what that’s what we think anyway that’s it however there are many colleagues of mine who are also now in
Germany I already mentioned that time II was in Vienna Philharmonic and so on that it’s it’s really great it must be it must be something to do with the sound culture as well because it’s it fits yours the way you make you play your horn fits in Germany really well except you weren’t thinking of doing an audition in
London I heard oh no no that was just for study oh that was just for study yeah I think I have the to know you came here under study in London but then it was too much money so have you played with it yes actually we know for a couple of years now and it was one opportunity and the
University oh yeah PAH promotion short piece for is it any good yeah we practice he practiced yeah must be must have been like 2010 and you’ve all got your lovely yeah you were watching our we saw you right in that’s why you never would have expected him to be in your own hangout well he doesn’t live far away and because it’s the afternoon
I also have Slovenian coffee for everybody ah cake and coffee look at this so I know Slovenian coffee and petits unawares we missed the knife again though we’re so badly organized guys one that’s and one is papi sheets yeah yes this is gonna be great for the rehearsal later yeah oh my goodness me okay um while we are cutting the cake and we’re gonna try it
Andrea I just wanted to say what a pleasure it is thank you for having to be on the hangouts really because it’s it’s it’s just been my he’s my colleague but I don’t know that much you know we’re we’re we’re colleagues and friends but you don’t know their philosophies but we don’t really send the horn on say so what do you think about low horn stopping no yeah don’t we don’t really we just sometimes maybe use second second valve but that’s it exactly what are you take on that so okay here we go all right this is this is a huge honor and
Jakob and George and Alex behind the cameras thank you for your fantastic job today and you were gonna get some of this they’re very small pieces Andre oh look at that quite sure who to show this to but there we go nice one which one is this the walnut do you can you just put it in your mouth like that you could just just think if there’s a piece of bread okay okay great so this is a lovely way to finish a horn hang out you guys
I can’t think of a better way well actually if it had been like six o’clock we could have started with the cocktails or something Oh what’s a villian wine which we do hotel you you you you sent some Slovenian wine it was a little bit too early for civilian one no oh look at this one oh yeah oops this is amazing look at that oh oh okay does it you put cream with it or no no okay all right you can you can you know what
I’m not gonna bite into this until the horn Hangouts finish because because because then it’s all stay in the teeth anyway Andre thank you for the here thank you oops sorry there you go oh yes there we go knowing and we have Andrea of course we have a horn hangout t-shirt for you course we have a horn hangout t-shirt for you as well
Wow we also have one for boss Jan watch they’re going to be sent back to Ljubljana that’s yours I’m flying to new beyond an extra take that so everyone gets one hang out t-shirts because you you you said you put that on because you didn’t have a t-shirt so now you do yeah and our embassy people even allowed to wear horn hangout t-shirts this might be in free time okay writing let us know where you’re watching and say hi to
Andre he’ll get a copy of the chat and I’m just it’s just been absolutely lovely to talk to you today and thank you for doing this huge round of applause also for the team handsome Tim you can go to bed now thank you for streaming it on your platform five stream because without it’s a big team here it’s a global effort you know yeah it’s quite a lot and all these lovely slovenian thank you for that yeah you get a copy of this great so the next one hangout will do on low horn stops okay that’s it we’re not quite sure when the next floor
And hangout is if you have any suggestions for who you’d like to see on the horn hangouts write in and let us know we can actually we can talk about talk to Greg or about you can come in X and talk about accompanying famous horn players every time thank you thank you for all you did to make turn this into a wonderful
Slovenian is my pleasure and actually I said that was foreign trade they are really proud of him and if there is anything else we can do we would place thank you we’re proud of him too I’m so glad you’re here with us yeah thank you for having me you’re welcome so many years so ok guys good bye from us bye bye and see you next time on the horn hangouts lots of love bye [Music] you [Music]
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