Click on WKA Logo to return to Home Page
September
2008 Hot News
Dr Janice Minor Master Class session
Eugene Mondie Master Class on Eb Clarinet and Mozart Concerto
Participant Clarinet Choir in Rehearsal and Concert, conducted by Dr Marc
Boensel
Janice Minor and Eugene Mondie in
Recital, and Mike Getzin, Ben Redwine, Janice Minor, and Eugene Mondie
Jazz Finale
27 September 2008
6th Annual Annapolis Clarinet Day - Ben
Redwine, Director
Edgewater, Maryland USA
This special one day Clarinet Day, with 12 hours of activities including two
Master Classes, given by Dr Janice Minor, Clarinet Professor at James Madison
University at Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Eugene Mondie, 2nd / Eb Clarinetist in
the Washington National Symphony, was an enlightening exposure for students and
teachers covering important fundamental concepts and ideas. Both classes
exceeded about 2 hours each, and as the galleries display, all levels of
students were covered. Dr Minor covered important basics including how to
produce solid tone fundamentals with long tone exercises and making the tone
cover the entire range. Mr Mondie covered with advanced students the
Mozart Concerto, and coached a student about posture and not being so dependent
on neck straps to hold the clarinet, and showed how that practice made posture
problems in making a student lean forward and inhibiting the breath flow and
affecting the sound and relaxation one should be able to have. A session
covering Eb Clarinet Orchestral excerpts including from Berlioz's Symphonie
Fantastique and other parts was covered emphasizing accuracy and more relaxation
in covering the parts and how that affects auditions.
Exhibitors showing Instruments, including the Washington Music Center, Redwine
Jazz with Gennusa Mouthpieces, accessories, and recordings made for interesting
browsing and on the spot repair checks were also offered.
The evening concert included a Clarinet Choir conducted bt Dr Marc Boensel, Dr
Minor performing the Schumann Fantasy Pieces and the CM von Weber Concertino Op
26, Eugene Mondie performing the Finzi 5 Bagatelles and the Debussy
Rhapsody, and finaled with a Jazz medley performed by Ben Redwine, Ben
Boker, Cam Collins, Colin Renick, Clarinetists, with Tim Mitchell, Guitar, and
JJ Wright, Jazz Pianist. Gabriel Dobner assisted Minor and Mondie.
This event was well worth being involved in as it showed immense talent and
excellent teaching that all students should want to fulfill. The student
and teacher attendance was about 25 who came to work with this fine event.
Due credit goes to Ben Redwine for his active role in its success.
|
|
|
|
Sebastian Manz - Germany
|
|
|
|
Taira Kaneka - Israel
|
|
|
|
Shelley Ezra - Israel
|
|
|
|
Marcos Miranda Perez - Spain
|
|
|
13 September 2008
57th ARD International
Music Competition 2008 - Munich, Germany,
concluded 13 September 2008
Munich, Germany
For may artists renowned today, a prize at this
international competition acted as a springboard for a later career. Some names
include: Jessye Norman, Francisco Araiza, Mitsuko Uchida, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuri
Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Heinz Holliger, Peter Sadlo, and
Maurice André, to mention but a few.
[
ARD
Music Competition] : ARD Music Competition - Springboard
for a career from 1952
Inhaltsnavigation
BR Klassik (English Version)
Content
Service
Inhalt
Candidates and Schedule
Clarinet
Stand:
12.09.2008
Sebastian Manz
from Germany was awarded both a first prize and the audience
prize. Shelly Ezra, Israel, and
Taira Kaneko, Israel, got a third prize.
Shelly Ezra, Israel, and
Taira Kaneko, Israel, got a third prize.
Finals
Semi-finals
2nd Round
1st Round
Weitere Informationen Download
Gallery
11 September 2008
Performances and Instrument
Lectures held at the Prague Conservatory and Atrium, Czech Republic - 10 - 11
September 2008 with Jiri Krejci and Petr Hejny on the early clarinet
(Wanhal-Zach-Lefevre-Sciroli and Beethoven) with
Luigi Magistrelli (Professor of
Clarinete at the Milan Conservatory in Italy) and Lecture about the the Reform
Boehm system Clarinete
Prague, Czech Republic
During this two day period at the Prague
Conservatory and Atrium was held a series of
lectures and performance of Early Clarinet works and
rarely heard repertoire as performed by
Jiri Krejci and Petr Hejny on the early clarinet
(Wanhal-Zach-Lefevre-Sciroli and Beethoven) with
Luigi Magistrelli (Professor of
Clarinete at the Milan Conservatory in Italy) and lecture-demonstrations about
the Reform Boehm System Clarinetes along with the
French System for evolutional comparison.
There are recent recordings of many of these works
just released as shown on the above galleries.
It is not often that these kind of events are held,
which makes it important to be aware of the
historical aspects and early music available for
performance. Mr Magistrelli is an authority on
this area and has an extensive collection of
instruments and has recorded many CD's with early
music.
|
|
|
|
Jon Cohler
|
|
|
|
Gregory Barrett
|
|
|
|
Gregory Oaks
|
|
|
|
Dan Sheridan
|
|
|
|
Drake University Clarinet Quartet
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Riemans Music Buffet Display
|
|
|
6 September 2008
Iowa Clarinet Day 2008
-
Central College and Drake University
-
Cynthia Doggett, Director
Pella, Iowa, USA
Iowa Clarinet Day exists to educate and inspire clarinetists of all ages and
abilities. Hosting this event at a variety of colleges and universities around
Iowa displays to participants the variety and quality of education available
within the state of Iowa. Additionally, the event brings performances by
internationally renowned clarinetists to the state of Iowa, and facilitates
collaboration between Iowa clarinet professors and those of surrounding states.
We hope to include an increasing number of participants from across the U.S. in
upcoming events. Our plan is to keep the date in early September in future
years, so please keep us in mind for 2009!
Our most recent guest artist was Jonathan Cohler, and in 2007 our guest artist
was Hakan Rosengren. In addition, there were several clarinet professors from
the Midwest who played on a morning "potpourri" recital: Gregory Barrett
(Northern Illinois Univ), Gregory Oakes (Iowa State Univ), Clarence Padilla
(Drake Univ), Daniel Sheridan (Winona State Univ), Joyce Wheeler (Drake Univ),
Kariann Voigts (Simpson College), and Cynthia Doggett (Central College).
Sponsorship support provided by Al Maniscalco
of Buffet, and Dave Krogan of Rieman
Music, is appreciated for making this possible.
1 September 2008
Richard Nunemaker, Bass
Clarinetist in Houston Symphony, in Interview regarding his Retirement from the
Orchestra with Bob Stevenson of
KUHF
Houston
Houston, Texas USA
After serving forty-one years as a member of the
Houston Symphony Orchestra Richard Nunemaker
will retire August 1, 2008. Andre Previn hired Nunemaker in 1967 as a
clarinetist, bass clarinetist and saxophonist. He
has had a varied and prolific career as a symphony musician, concert soloist,
recording artist, producer, educator and author.
Richard will continue to pursue
his first love—commissioning and performing new music for clarinet and
saxophone. He will also continue teaching at the University of St. Thomas and
keep an active private studio. Richard plans to fill out his remaining free time
performing as a freelance musician in the greater Houston area.
During Nunemaker’s tenure with the Houston Symphony he gave many Houston
Symphony premieres on subscription and non-subscription concerts such as: the
Ingolf Dahl Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra and the Heitor
Villa-Lobos, Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra Lawrence Foster,
conductor, the Pierre Max Dubois Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra,
Jorge Mester, conductor and the Alexander Glazunov Concerto for Saxophone and
Orchestra, Sergiu Commisiona, conductor. He also performed the Jacques Ibert,
Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra and the Aaron
Copland Clarinet Concerto, Toshiyuki Shimada,
conductor. Nunemaker was featured in the Houston Symphony Sounds Like Fun series
for two seasons performing his and Robert Nelson’s arrangement of Amazing
Grace for Soprano Voice, Clarinet and Orchestra. He was also featured many
times with Newton Wayland and the Houston Symphony on the Symphony Pops series
and on the New Year’s Eve Gala concerts. Nunemaker was the featured soloist with
Wayland and the Houston Symphony Orchestra in three Fourth of July live
television broadcasts and two CD recordings: Stompin’ at The Savoy and
America Swings on the Pro Arte label performing arrangements he commissioned
featuring the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto, and Tributes to Artie Shaw
and Benny Goodman.
Richard was a founding member of Airmail Special, a quartet of
Houston musicians that performed original material for student and family
concerts in the Houston area. During its 16-year tenure, Airmail Special
presented 350 live performances in the Greater Houston area schools for
approximately 70,000 children.
“ It has been
a thrill to be a member of such a great orchestra and to be a part of what I
consider to be one of the premiere clarinet and wind sections in the United
States today.”
“ I
take pride in having been a participant in the building of this wonderful
Houston Symphony Orchestra from the late 1960’s with Andre Previn to the late
1990’s with Christoph Eschenbach. Indeed, those were exciting and exhilarating
years.”
Copyright © 1999 WKA-Clarinet.org. All rights reserved.
Revised: October 23, 2008
Finals Clarinet: Schedule and
Repertoire 
ARD Music Competition: The
clarinet finalists [ARD Music Competition] 
