Pip Eastop - Hornplayer

Essentials for the touring musician

Pippington — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:55:30 +0000

Please allow me to share with you my years and years of experience.
When going on tour you need only remember four (three) things:

Passport
Credit card
Toothbrush *
Instrument

* The toothbrush is optional as it’s perfectly acceptable to clean your teeth with a credit card.

My kids, as they were 8 years ago

Pippington — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:47:29 +0000

Here are my kids, as they were 8 years ago.
Photo taken June 2002 on a Central Line train, London.
From left to right: Zak, Martha, Mo, Emily.

Mark Bennett

Pippington — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:08:07 +0000

Friend, colleague and genius trumpet-player, Mark Bennett, practising in the very late evening sunshine last June, in Norway.

Waynes

Pippington — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:54 +0000

These are my good friends, Wayne.
They are an Australian, living in Norway.
He’s a very cool couple of guys, as you can see from these portraits.

Bownrai, wobniar, rowbain?

Pippington — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:24:24 +0000

This is the view from my kitchen window. We’ve been having some pretty strange weather recently here in London. I don’t know what this is, or what caused it, and I’m not even sure I like it….

Elipses on the South Bank

Pippington — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:09:06 +0000

The London Eye seen from Hungerford Bridge

Pippington — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:49:31 +0000

Looking westwards from the Hungerford Bridge just before sunset yesterday, after a day of crazy cold August weather.

My teaching

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:55:45 +0000

I love teaching horn, at any level. I’ve been doing it for over 30 years. I find the process fascinating and I always learn a lot from it.

I teach at the Royal College of Music but also, privately, at my home in Dulwich, South London.
This map shows where I live.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like a lesson, or a series of lessons.

My teaching rates:

Consultation lesson (first lesson) – 90 minutes. £60
Subsequent lessons – 60 minutes for £40, or 90 minutes for £60
Every tenth lesson would be free of charge.

These rates are negotiable. I would be willing to charge less for anyone with a low income.

How to plaice your embouchure…

Pippington — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:46:55 +0000

We can all learn from the humble plaice…

Harry Johnstone

Pippington — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:49:22 +0000

Here is my hornplaying friend and colleague, Harry Johnstone, of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

I caught this shot of Harry during a moment of quiet contemplation during the recording sessions for Mozart’s Divertimento, K 334
The recording was for Linn Records. The divertimento features two horns in D and a string quartet with double bass instead of ‘cello.
The elegant instrument Harry is holding was made by Engelbert Schmid – a beautiful horn and exactly the same as the one I was using.

Congratulations to all involved for some extremely fine playing and some very intense work!

The other players were:

Alexander Janiczek – director/violin
Nikita Naumov – double bass
Ruth Crouch – violin
Jane Atkins – viola