{"id":4818,"date":"2013-03-05T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T09:29:10","slug":"scholars-spotlight-mathilde-farnabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2013\/03\/05\/scholars-spotlight-mathilde-farnabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars’ Spotlight: Mathilde Farnabe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mathilde Farnabe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing the series profiling this year’s Music Scholars. This week, saxophonist Mathilde Farnabe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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My name is Mathilde and I am currently doing my Masters Degree in Psychology here at Kent Uni. I came from France in September 2011, so a lot of my music experience\u00a0 relates to my years in France.<\/p>\n

I started taking music lessons when I was six because my dad always wanted me and my sister to play an instrument, as he is a guitarist. The following year I could choose to start an instrument so I went to have a look in different classes to see what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n

For some reasons, saxophone attracted my attention and I started right away. For about ten years I was working with the same teacher, Jean-Henri Roan and I do owe a lot of my progress to his very committed and serious work with me. We worked on a lot of different classical, romantic or baroque pieces which to this day are still my favourites. I developed a lot of musical skills listening to him play and understanding what was written and how to interpret it.<\/p>\n

In 2006 he brought me to a competition called \u201cConcours National du Jeune Musicien\u201d where I achieved my best performance and won a soprano saxophone, which was a great encouragement and reward for my work. I also took part in music camps every summer for four years, in the \u201c’Acad\u00e9mie Internationale d’Et\u00e9 : Musique au Pays de l’Affiche \u201d in which I had the chance to play in amazing quartets and concert bands, as well as what stays my preferred formation to this day: a sax ensemble. I met a lot of different people in these summer camps and in particular my teacher’s teacher: Patrick Saltel. I was then encouraged to take lessons with him instead, which taught me a lot. I joined his concert band, saxophone ensemble and even orchestra where I was playing the oboe part with my soprano.<\/p>\n

It was very sad when I had to leave\u00a0 everything behind in September 2011 to come and study in England. However I am now very pleased to be part of the music players and moreover scholars at the University of Kent, and I am very much enjoying the Big Band and Concert Band concerts and rehearsals in this new magnificent building. I have also started playing with a saxophone quartet which sounds great!<\/p>\n

Mathilde Farnabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

See all the other features in this series here<\/a>.<\/p>\n