A colourful clarinet concert – Fehmarn on Wednesday

Bannesdorf. Pamela Coats can smile with the clarinet. And not only that, her presentation, spontaneous and with a lot of heart, also makes the sun rise. When the American clarinet virtuoso was asked at the beginning of the year what the program for her concert in Bannesdorf on August 8th at 8 p.m. should be called, she smiled into the phone. In a full voice and with an unmistakable American accent, she said that one of the newer pieces she was planning to perform was called “Smiles.” Now she was looking for something that would fit. The title “Various Smiles” came about spontaneously, which sounds much nicer in English than “Different ways to smile.” But that’s exactly what it will be. A clarinet, a clarinetist, decades of stage experience in various international concert series and genuine warmth await the audience in the Bannesdorf church. Coats has won international prizes and awards in Germany, Italy and the USA. As an active chamber musician, Ms. Coats has participated in numerous projects with performances at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Ella Fitzgerald Hall (USA) and the Chicago Cultural Center (USA). Pamela Coats is a founding member of the International Chamber Artists (Chicago Symphony Orchestra members) in Chicago and also acts as artistic director of the VivazzA ensemble. Her orchestral experience includes opera and symphonic programs such as radio productions of the WDR Music Festival, Deutschlandfunk, National Public Radio (Chicago) and the Rome Festival Orchestra. Since 2014, Pamela Coats has played stage music in productions of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.