Henri Bok is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 bass

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

 clarinetist and saxophonist. He is a professor of bass clarinet at Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

 Superior Conservatoire and Musikene in San Sebastian

San Sebastián

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Bok published "New Techniques for the Bass Clarinet", a reference book detailing special techniques for bass clarinet players. He is the Artistic Director of the World Bass Clarinet Convention. He has invented several new chamber music formations, including Duo Contemporain (bass clarinet and marimba

Marimba

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

 or vibraphone

Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

), Duo Novair (bass clarinet and accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

) and Bass Instincts (bass clarinet and bass oboe

Bass oboe

The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is about twice the size of a regular oboe and sounds an octave lower; it has a deep, full tone not unlike that of its higher-pitched cousin, the English horn. The bass oboe is notated in the treble clef, sounding...

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Bok plays a Selmer

Selmer

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 "Privilege" bass clarinet, a Luis Rossi

Luis Rossi

Luis Rossi is an internationally renowned clarinetist. He performed as Principal clarinetist in symphony orchestras throughout South America for twenty years before he founded a clarinet workshop in Santiago, Chile, in 1986...

 wooden bell, a Pomarico

Pomarico

Pomarico is a small town of 4500 inhabitants in Southern Italy, in the region Basilicata. It is about 30 km far from Matera, the capital of the province to which Pomarico belongs.-History:The town was founded about 850 AD by Greeks...

 crystal mouthpiece and Rico

RICO

-Music:*Rico , a 2000 album by Matt Bianco*"Rico" , a 1998 song the Matthew Good Band from the album Underdogs*Rico International, a manufacturer of reeds, mouthpieces, and woodwind accessories...

reeds.

Discography

• Music for Bass Clarinet and Piano, with Rainer Klaas. Clarinet Classics, 1999.
• Worlds of Bass Clarinet. Globe, 1999.
• Wicked!. Artistic License, 2003
• BASSics, with Rob Broek. Clarinet Classics, 2003.
• HeRo, with Rob van Bavel. Bloomline, 2005.
• Henri Bok plays David Loeb. Vienna Modern Masters, 2005.

External links

• Henri Bok's website