Rosanna Ter-Berg has never been exactly sure where she fits in. Not that this is a problem for her – quite the opposite. An accomplished classical solo flautist with a stack of awards and prizes to her name, Ter-Berg is also an improviser, MD, singer, teacher and facilitator working in a range of genres from klezmer to Brazilian music.
At a recent gig at Bristol's Ham Farm Festival, I gave up counting the number of different flutes she had on stage, along with a loop pedal and an even larger selection of percussion.
Ter-Berg created an Amazonian soundscape, layered harmonies using Brazilian pífano flutes and taught the audience to sing a wordless klezmer-style Nign. We were invited to contribute to an eerie, overtone-filled soundscape featuring Ter-Berg's solo Romanian kaval, before she performed variations on Les Folies d'Espagne from memory and finished it all off with Steve Reich's trance-like Vermont Counterpoint, using her own 10-part backing-track. ‘Well, you have to do something in lockdown’, she explained.
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