OFF PIST by Svante Henryson | Julian Schwarz & Garrick Zoeter - Clarinet and Cello

Clarinetist Garrick Zoeter and cellist Julian Schwarz perform Svante Henryson's Off Pist for Clarinet and Cello Edge Ensemble concert - Shenandoah Conservatory at the Bright Box Theater, September 18, 2025 Notes on the piece: Off Pist" was commissioned in 1996 by SVT, the Swedish Public Television, for a televised concert at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. It was written for and premiered by soprano saxophonist Anders Paulsson and myself. We have something in common: we feel drawn to the limits, in music as well as in our mutual hobby alpine skiing. In music, we like to take our instruments to places they have never been, by extending range, playing techniques, and even genres, involving an exhilarating degree of risk. We like to cross the black-and-yellow tape and go off pist. After the concert at Berwaldhallen, I decided to write two more parts, creating a three-part Suite Off Pist. But life got in the way, and it took me 22 years to begin writing the two last parts; Powder Ballad and Figure 8' s." -Svante Henryson #clarinet #newmusic #chambermusic