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The Dutch clarinetist Fie Schouten is an Amsterdam based specialist in the performance of new music, composed and improvised, with a preference for playing on the low clarinets. Schouten can be heard extensively as a soloist and with her own groups. She works with o.a. cellists Katharina Gross, Vincent Courtois, pianist Guus Janssen, percussionist Tatiana Koleva and is since 15 years guestmusician of the German Ensemble Musikfabrik. Schouten is Artistic Director of a bass clarinet festival titled ‘Basklarinet Festijn’ with four editions since 2014. She produced 12 CD’s, released at the Dutch labels Attacca, Trytone, Karnatic Lab Records, the Austrian label Kairos and the American label Relative Pitch Records. She is since 2013 Professor of Bass Clarinet and contemporary music at the Prince Claus Conservatoire Groningen and was guestprofessor at universities in Austria, Estonia, Israel and USA.