Isabella Krapf interview
Episode description
Isabella Krapf joins me on episode 116.
Isabella is from Vienna, Austria, where she started teaching and performing concerts in her late teens and has had a career in the harmonica ever since.
Isabella is a collector of harmonicas and puts on exhibitions. She played a part in keeping the Seydel factory in business when it was looking for new investors in the early 2000s, by ordering 1000 ‘boomerang’ harmonicas.
In 2011 Isabella was asked to visit North Korea to teach groups of music students there to play harmonica. A group later visited Austria and performed some concerts in Europe under her guidance.
Isabella also got to know Jerry Adler towards the end of his life and compiled an album for him and played in a concert with him and Howard Levy in 2006.
Links:
Website: https://www.isabellakrapf.com/
Videos:
Boomerang harmonica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7hfbd9BQ0
North Korean ensemble at Trossingen in 2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCoL33Y0-24
North Korean group playing at Bristol in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dI7k5s0uVw
The Bossa Nova Company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujLkY_iCfo
Pablo Fegundas:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=792673521775393
HUK virtual workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1LjuOwqaic
Historical diatonic video:
https://www.facebook.com/denise.uthoff.3/videos/1020566385917951
Podcast website:
https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com
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Spotify Playlist:
Also check out the Spotify Playlist, which contains most of the songs discussed in the podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QC6RF2VTfs4iPuasJBqwT?si=M-j3IkiISeefhR7ybm9qIQ
Podcast sponsors:
This podcast is sponsored by SEYDEL harmonicas - visit the oldest harmonica factory in the world at www.seydel1847.com or on Facebook or Instagram at SEYDEL HARMONICAS
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