Martin Burrell
Having had the life-changing experience of hearing Yona play the Brahm's 5tet, I began lessons with him in 1973, promptly discovered I was out of favour with the current clarinet style in the UK, went to study with Karl Leister in 1975, got a job in 1976 where "the sound" was accepted in Malmo, Sweden, came home to UK in 1979, to get a job with Scottish Opera in 1980, when "the sound" was still considered unwelcome by many, left the opera in 1992 to get ordained, by which time most of Britain had been successfully converted to what Yona had begun 20 years earlier.
Student of Yona Ettlinger: 1973 -1975 |