HfMT doctoral student wins second prize in international research competition

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Nora-Louise Müller spoke about the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet, one of the projects at the HfMT funded by the "Innovative University" program

"The Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet. Chances afforded by a new tonality" was the title of Nora Louise Müller's award-winning lecture, which is also the subject of her doctoral thesis. The Bohlen-Pierce clarinet is played in an unusual tonal system in which the duodecimal is divided into 13 tone steps.

Since 2008, the Multimedia Composition (MMM) master's course at theHfMT , led by Prof. George Hajdu, has been in charge of the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet, from the development to the construction of the instruments, which were specially commissioned from a Canadian clarinet maker. Since then, numerous compositions have been written in the Bohlen-Pierce tuning and new instruments have been added. In her doctoral thesis, Nora Louise Müller is researching the tonal and compositional possibilities of the instruments of the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet family.

The International Clarinet Association organizes an annual congress every summer under the name "ClarinetFest". This year it took place from July 6-11 in Ostend, Belgium.