May 2015 Newsletter

Harold Wright was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania and began playing the clarinet at age twelve. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied clarinet with the Philadelphia Orchestra's principal clarinetist, Ralph McLane, and chamber music with that orchestra's principal oboist, Marcel Tabuteau.

Upon graduating from Curtis, Mr. Wright joined the Houston Symphony and a year later became principal clarinetist of the Dallas Symphony. For many summers he participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festival Orchestra and was a frequent guest artist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Concerts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the chamber music concerts at the 92nd Street "Y" in New York. He also appeared frequently with such leading string quartets as the Budapest, Guarneri, Vermeer, and Juilliard. In 1970 he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal clarinet and taught at New England Conservatory, Boston University, and the Tanglewood Music Center until his untimely death in August 1993. He has left a legacy of memorable recordings.

Harold Wright Clarinet Merit Award Competition
May 10 Register here

The Boston Woodwind Society Merit Award Competitions are open to instrumentalists who have reached their 18th birthday, but not their 30th birthday, by the competition date. The participants must prepare a complete piece (including all movements if a multi-movement piece is chosen), at least 10 minutes in length. The auditions must be performed with piano accompaniment, and participants are required to provide his/her own accompanist.

There is a $25 registration fee and participants will not be registered until it is received. You may request an audition time but it may not be guaranteed.

2nd meeting: May 2015, 16th to 20th

At the end of the second meeting of the V International Clarinet Seminar, there will be the possibility that Professor Yehuda Gilad will select a talented clarinetist to continue clarinet studies at the University of Southern of California (USC) in Los Angeles during the next courses. It will be the student responsibility to follow the regular admission process that USC establishes for international students. The student might be recipient of a partial scholarship from USC in accordance to the degree that he or she would attend.

30 mei 2015: Clarinet - Bass Clarinet Day for amateurs: Amsterdam - Netherlands
10-17u & 20.00 Evening Concert

Master classes by: Fie Schouten, Alex Simu, Michel Marang, Jacques Dubois, Tobias Klein.
In cooperation with magazine "De Klarinet"
-Instrumenten & accessoires Buffet Crampon, Schwenk&Seggelke

More info on http://www.bassclarinet.nl

30 May 2015

Clarinet & Bass Clarinet Day

http://www.bassclarinet.nl/klarinet-basklarinetdag-30mei2015/

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

30 of May 2015 at Splendor

An event for clarinet players of all levels and all ages. An open invitation to discover this wonderful instrument and find new musical horizons, bind new friendships and feel the joy of playing together.

Lessons and masterclasses will be covering various musical topics such as: classical music, contemporary music, improvised music, klezmer, jazz improvisation, balkan and oriental music.

There will be special lessons for complete beginners (children or adults), as well as seminaries about the important clarinet topics, and lots more.

The main teachers are Fie Schouten, Alex Simu, Michel Marang, Jacques Dubois en duo Klein-Büyükberber.

(click here to see more details - website in dutch, translator works)

Sharing, thinking together and supporting are some of the key elements to produce a successful event.

We kindly ask each one of you to take this chance and help us in any way you would like to.

There are only 4 days left that you could vote for us on the platform "Jij maakt het mee” , so that we will be able to receive the financial help we need to cover the budget and make this idea come true.

(to vote you need to log in, and even if you do not speak dutch, the english translator works like a charm, no worries, you do not have to pay, you can simply vote).

(to vote you need to log in, and if you do not speak dutch, the english translator works like a charm, no worries, you do not have to pay, you just vote.)

Feel free to send us an email with any advice or suggestion, you can share this email with your friends, you can become a voluntary and help during the event or preparing it)

Every bit of your support means a lot!

Thank you so much and we hope to see you there on 30 May.

30 May - 1 June 2015

Mensi International Clarinet Competition

Mensi, Italy

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION DEDICATED TO clarinetists WORLDWIDE.

The International Music Competition "Giacomo Mensi" was founded in 1998 with the aim to promote and encourage the culture of music, especially of the clarinet, and recalling a young clarinetist already stated in the international field and died prematurely in a tragic car accident in 1997 .

The competition, held every two years, is divided into two categories: Excellence and Young Promises;

The section dedicated to the junior, in turn divided into category A (up to 13 years) and cat B (14 to 17 years), mean encourage and promote the younger clarinetists, supporting them and providing them with the opportunity to perform in an event of international character.

The competition consists of a qualifying round followed by the final; the jury during the selection of candidates, is hidden by a marquee; a guarantee of impartiality, also, the order of entry of competitors is drawn by lot immediately before the test.

Competitors receive a Certificate of Participation; the top three winners in each category receive a diploma and a scholarship; The winner of the competition, in addition to the diploma and the scholarship, he performs, accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Vallecamonica, in the final concert of awards held at the conclusion of the event.

The competition is advertised in the Italian conservatories and academies, conservatories and universities in Foreign.

The high level of the event, now in its ninth year, is also witnessed by the Presidents of the Jury: Dieter Klocker, Karl Leister, Antony Pay, Thomas Friedli, Wenzel Fuchs, Fabio Di Casola, Bobby Yotzov.

The competition is sponsored by the City of Brentwood and the Association of Music in Vallecamonica, under the patronage of the Lombardy Region, the Province of Brescia, the Mountain Community of Vallecamonica, Consorzio BIM Vallecamonica, the Lyceum "C. Golgi ", the Pro Loco Breno;

the artistic direction is entrusted to the Free Academy of Music "A. Vivaldi" of Darfo.

Clarinet - Bass Clarinet Day for Amateurs