HARLEKIN für Klarinette / for clarinet 

Karlheinz Stockhausen
HARLEKIN für Klarinette / for clarinet
© Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik, Kürten
The score, CD and DVD are available at www.stockhausen-verlag.com
01:37-04:27 Introduction by the Mayor of Kürten Willi Heider
04:34-18:32 Introduction by Suzanne Stephens of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music
18:37 performance of HARLEKIN by Paula Pires, clarinet
Paula Pires holds a Master Degree in Clarinet Performance, with high honors, from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where she was a student of Ralph Manno. She is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Évora University in Portugal, while continuing to be an active contemporary music soloist, orchestral player and a devoted teacher, had being on the faculty of the EMESP Tom Jobim, in São Paulo, Brasil. Paula began her musical studies in her hometown of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She holds a Bachelor in Music in Clarinet Performance degree from UNESP, in São Paulo, where she studied under the guidance of Professor Sergio Burgani.
Paula Pires was the recipient of a prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) graduate studies scholarship, and the FUNARTE scholarship for technical and artistic improvement, focused on the studies of Karlheinz Stockhausen. She was the winer of several competitions, such as: "1° Concurso Jovens clarinetistas Devon e Burgani", "Jovem Músico BDMG" and "II concurso de Jovens Solistas da OSMG”.
Paula is currently a member of the Cláudio Santoro National Theater Orchestra (OSTNS) in Brasília, Brazil.