This piece is part of a series of several solo instrumental pieces from the 1980s called RSRCH. In these pieces the Canadian composer and recorder player Peter Hannan focused on one specific aspect of new instrumental playing techniques. RSRCH 12/84 is written for a tenor recorder and completely dedicated to multiphonics, exploring their quality, strength, and fragility. In the beginning of the piece the multiphonics are introduced carefully. The main part plays with rapid virtuosic changes, from natural sounds to multiphonics and back again. This creates a polyphony on a monophonic instrument in such a fascinating way that it puts both audience and performer into a kind of trance. Thus, also the subtitle Dream.

Susanne Fröhlich21

Peter Hannan: RSRCH 12/84 - Dream

I am a recorder player and regularly present concerts and workshops both within Europe and internationally. As a former founding member of the recorder quartet QNG - Quartet New Generation, I am performing now as soloist, in various chamber music formations, as well as in the context of various productions in the realm of fine arts, opera and theatre, among others Saâdane Afif, Ari Benjamin Meyers, andcompany&Co, Constanza Macras/dorkypark, and Opera Lab Berlin. I performed numerous premieres in world class concert houses and festivals, with such groups as Ensemble Adapter, Collegium Novum Zürich, Figura Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble, Neue Vokalsolisten, and Trickster Orchestra. I have been awarded international honours and scholarships in Berlin, Darmstadt, Göttingen, Graz, Illzach, Krakow, New York, and Rotterdam. I am living and teaching in Berlin since 2004 and am holding a teaching position at the Berlin University of the Arts since April 2010. 
I have studied the recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with P.T. Leenhouts. After graduating with a concert diploma, I earned my master’s degree in 2004 with distinction. I then studied with Prof. G. Lünenbürger at the Berlin University of the Arts, where I earned my concert exam diploma, likewise with distinction. From April 2015 till March 2016, I studied Helder tenor recorder with J. Fischer at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In October 2019 I completed my artistic-academic research project on “The new potential of a 21st century recorder” at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with distinction.