Vandoren/Buffet Clarinet Ensemble Festival - Los Angeles, CA - 6 - 7 Nov 10
Dima Int Competition - Romania - 7 -11 February 2011
ClarinetFest 2011 - CalState University California - 3 - 7 August
Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium - Cancelled
Boston Conservatory Clarinet Day - 17 October 2010
Cornucopia - Northern Illinois University - 29 January 2011
Robert Spring Contemporary Music Recital - Arizona State University - 19 September 2010
Vandoren Fall Newsletter
Vandoren Fall continued Newsletter
Eric Mandat - Nielsen Concerto with Southern Illinois Symphony - 5 Oct 2010
1st Lima, Peru Clarinert Festival - 15 -20 November 2010
Michigan State University 7th Clarinet Spectacular - 9 - 10 October 2010
French Clarinette Competition - 28 November 2010 - Amiens, France
Vandoren Paris Master Class with Stanley Drucker - 26 October 2010
Vandoren Solo Competition - 1 November 2010 Deadline
Chicago Clarinet Collaboration - 6 November 2010
Richard Nunemaker and Chamber Ensemble concert- Houston, Texas 14 November 2010
Lisbon Clarinet Competition - 30 Apr - 5 May 2011
Ohio University Clarinet Gala - 9 April 2011
Claremont Clarinet Festival - California - 13 - 18 June 2011
Autumn (September
- November) Newsletter 2010
ALERT:
Memorial Service held to honor
the life of recently passed away Professor
David Etheridge of
the University of Oklahoma Sunday, 12 September at the Catlett Music Center,
Please join us for a memorial
service to celebrate David’s life.
We will gather together on Sunday,
September 12 at 1:30 in Sharp Hall
in Catlett Music Center on the
University of Oklahoma campus.
There will be a
reception immediately following the
service in Gothic Hall. We hope you
can attend.
If you would like to speak a few
words of remembrance at the memorial
service or would like someone to
read a brief item you have prepared,
please contact Cheryl at
dether6363@yahoo.com
or 405-360-2749.
Photographs are welcome and will be
displayed at the service. Please
send to Cheryl at 345 Stafford
Square, Norman, OK 73072
Present and past clarinet students
are invited to play in the Clarinet
Choir for the service. Please
contact Christina Giacona and she
will send you music and include the
rehearsal times. We realize many of
you are out of town so
a rehearsal will be planned either
Sunday morning or perhaps Saturday
if you are able to arrive by then.
Her e-mail is
cgiacona@ou.edu.
If you are coming from out of town I
would like to suggest that you make
hotel reservations as soon as
possible as there is an O.U.
football game on the 11th and the
hotels fill quickly. I have
reserved 7 doubles and 3 kings at La
Quinta under Etheridge Memorial if
you wish to use these 405-570-4000.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in Dave’s
memory may be sent to The David
Etheridge Clarinet Scholarship at
the OU Foundation, 100 Timberdell
Road, Norman, OK 73019
Tuesday Night
Concerts
The Eroica Ensemble
collaborates with
The Beethoven Club
several times a year
to present informal
concerts with
unconventional
programming. These
evenings give the
members of the
Eroica Ensemble a
chance to perform
solo works, chamber
pieces, and new
music. Seating is
limited; admission
is free. Donations
are welcome!
Conducting
Workshop
Each summer, the
Eroica Ensemble
sponsors a
conducting workshop
hosted by The
University of
Memphis. A new
element in the
community, this
ten-day masterclass
is geared towards
professional
musicians and
aspiring conductors.
Participants at the
2009 workshop
included college-age
students, choir
directors,
university music
professors, and
professional
orchestral players.
For more
information, email
info@eroicamemphis.org.
2010-2011
Season
Schedule
Saturday,
September
11, 2010,
7:30PM
First
Congregational
Church
1000 S.
Cooper St.
Memphis,
Tennessee
Sunday,
September
12, 2010,
3:00PM
Lambuth
University
Womack
Memorial
Chapel
Jackson,
Tennessee
Mozart:
Overture to
The
Marriage of
Figaro
Mozart:
Clarinet
Concerto in
A Major Stanley
Drucker,
clarinet
Weber:
Concertino
in E-flat
Major Stanley
Drucker,
clarinet
Haydn:
Symphony No.
104 in D
Major
We will soon
be
announcing
the rest of
our
2010-2011
season.
Serena
Benedetti,
Sanford
Allen, and
Paul Roby
will be
returning as
guest
artists and
we are
pleased to
welcome for
the first
time Saeka
Matsuyama,
winner of
the Sendai
International
Violin
Competition,
and Cyprien
Katsaris,
international
piano
soloist.
- Free
admission to
all concerts
-
The public
is cordially
invited to
attend.
Monday 13 September — 8 pm -
Montclair State University New
Jersey
The Cali
School of
Music
features
concerts by
students,
faculty,
alumni and
visiting
artists.
Admission is
free and
open to the
public in
Chapin Hall,
Leshowitz
Recital Hall
A
Faculty Chamber Recital -
Cali School faculty member, pianist Ron Levy,
performs with guest artists Stanley Drucker (clarinet) and Anne Kim
(cello). Works by Schumann (Fantasiestücke); Chopin (Cello
Sonata); Brahms (Trio)
— Leshowitz
Recital Hall
19 September 2010 - 2 PM
East Stroudsburg University,
Pennsylvania
Musicians of the NY
Philharmonic at ESU
Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of
the New York Philharmonic for 60 years, returns to East Stroudsburg
University's Carter Chamber Music Series for the first concert of
the 2010-2011 season.
Musicians of the New York Philharmonic
will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall
of East Stroudsburg University's Fine and Performing Arts Center,
Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.
A reception for the artists, sponsored by
the Office of the University Provost, will follow the program.
Joining Drucker will be three of his
colleagues from the Philharmonic, L. William Kuyper, French horn;
Fiona Simon, violin; and Qiang Tu, violoncello. The concert will
also feature Robert Miller, piano, distinguished professor of music
at ESU and artistic director of the series.
The program includes the spirited
Beethoven "Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Violoncello, Op. 11" and the
Brahms "Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op. 40," a Romantic
masterpiece. The program concludes with the "Quintet for Clarinet,
Horn, Violin, Cello and Piano" (1898) by Vaughan Williams. Only
published in 2002, this work contains lush Romantic writing with an
English sense of humor and charm.
General admission to the concert is $20,
$10 for students 18 and under, and $5 for ESU students with current
ID.
Reservations, which are held until five
minutes before the concert, are available by calling 570-422-3483,
ext. 2.
1 - 3 Oktober
2010
Symposien
7. Klarinetten-Symposium in
Saarbrücken, Germany
Das nächste Symposium der Deutschen
Klarinetten-Gesellschaft findet statt vom 1. bis 3. Oktober 2010 in der Musikhochschule
Saarbrücken.
Vorläufiger Zeitplan (Stand 26.7.2010)
Freitag, 1. Oktober
ab 12.00 Uhr
Anmeldung
14.00 - 15.00 Uhr
Eröffnungskonzert:
Es spielen Studierende der Klasse Prof. Johannes GMEINDER
Begrüßung:
Prof. Thomas DUIS, Rektor der Hochschule für Musik Saar
Ulrich MEHLHART, 1. Vorsitzender der Deutschen
Klarinetten-Gesellschaft
The Southern
Illinois
Symphony
Orchestra, under
Music Director,
Edward Benyas,
opens its
2010-11 season
with Georg
Frederic
Handel’s Music
for Royal
Fireworks. The
concert
concludes with
Tchaikovsky’s
glorious Fifth
Symphony. Also
on the program,
SIUC Professor
of Clarinet and
Distinguished
Scholar, Eric
Mandat, performs
the dazzling
Clarinet
Concerto by the
Danish composer,
Carl Nielsen.
Clarinettissimo X will be on Saturday and Sunday, October 16th
and 17th from 12:00- 9 PM at The
University of Washington School of Music. This year, we have master classes,
equipment dealers, a clarinet choir, an improvisation workshop, and
performances. This year's special guest is
Dan
Gilbert. As before, the event remains FREE to the public.
Preliminary Schedule of Events (subject to change)
Saturday, October 16
12 noon - Vendors open - come try clarinets, mouthpieces, barrels. Browse
accessories and music.
1pm - Sean Osborn master class -
email Sean Osborn to sign up to play
3pm - Jennifer Nelson master class -
email Sean Osborn to sign up to play
5pm - Community Clarinet Choir - bring your clarinet and
participatee
6pm - dinner break
7pm - Clarinettissimo X concert
featured clarinetists: Dan Gilbert, Sean Osborn, Jennifer Nelson, Florie
Rothenberg, Mary Kantor.
Sunday, October 17
12 noon - vendors open
1pm - Dan Gilbert Master Class -
email Sean Osborn to sign up to play
3:30 - Improvisation workshop with
William O. (Bill) Smith -
bring your clarinet and participate
5pm - dinner break
6pm - Dan Gilbert recital
You.
For 10 years, I have produced free concerts and festivals.
To help keep events free, please consider donating. Participants
ClarinetistDan
Gilbert joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as
Associate Professor of Clarinet in 2007. Previously, he held the
position of Second Clarinet in the Cleveland Orchestra from 1995 to
2007. Mr. Gilbert teaches at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook and he also served as the Associate Professor of Clarinet at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 2000 to 2001. A native of New York
City, Mr. Gilbert received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale
University and both a Master of Music degree and a Professional Studies
Certificate from The Juilliard School. Before joining the Cleveland
Orchestra, Mr. Gilbert was active as a freelancer in New York City,
appearing regularly with groups including: The Metropolitan Opera,
American Ballet Theater, New Jersey Symphony, Solisti New York, the
Stamford Symphony and the New Haven Symphony, where he played principal
clarinet from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Gilbert was a member of the Quintet of
the Americas in 1994-1995. The group toured throughout the United States
and was in residence at Northwestern University. He has appeared as
soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Heights Chamber
Orchestra, the Suburban Symphony Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony,
Solisti New York and the Aspen Mozart Orchestra. He is an active chamber
musician, playing regularly on the Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Series,
the Cleveland Museum of Art Chamber Series and the Oberlin Chamber Music
series. Mr. Gilbert's master classes and recitals have received critical
acclaim throughout the world. His teachers have included David Weber,
Robert Marcellus, Stanley Hasty, Richard Waller, Burt Hara and Judith
Kalin-Freeman.
Dash Point native Jennifer Nelson is currently
Principal Clarinet with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Auburn
Symphony Orchestras. She also has a very active freelance career,
including playing Broadway-style shows at the Fifth Avenue and Paramount
Theaters, occasional extra with the Seattle Symphony and Opera
Orchestras, and recordings for various television and motion picture
scores. She is also Lecturer in Clarinet at the University of
Washington, and Affiliate Artist Faculty in Clarinet at the University
of Puget Sound, in addition to having several students in her private
studio in Seattle for many years. Ms. Nelson has also traveled
throughout the United States with the national touring companies of
Phantom of the Opera and New York City Opera. In addition to her
stateside concerts, Jennifer's orchestral and recital performances have
also taken her to Mexico, Japan, Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria,
Honduras, and most recently, India.
Sean Osborn has traveled the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan as
soloist and chamber musician, and traveled the world during his eleven
years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has also appeared as
guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh
Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra. The New
York Times dubbed him "...an excellent clarinetist," the Boston
Globe called him "...a miracle," and Gramophone "...a master."
Sean is also an award-winning composer whose chamber works have been
played by members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera,
Marlboro Music Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Juilliard
School, among others.
Dr. Florie Rothenberg, enjoys an active
performing career, playing with several Seattle area concert and pit
orchestras, including the Auburn Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Pacific
Northwest Ballet, and Tacoma Opera. Florie has worked in film scoring in
Seattle, and has her own CD, Voices of Trees, Modern Works by
Women Composers for Clarinet and Piano, available on Origin Classical
Records. Florie has performed in musical theater throughout her career,
in Chicago, San Francisco, Tucson and Seattle. Splitting her time
between performing and teaching, Florie Rothenberg works with
clarinetists of all ages and levels, drawing students from around the
entire Puget Sound region, and is currently on faculty at Central
Washington University, University of Puget Sound Community Music, and
Music Works Northwest. Ms. Rothenberg earned a D.M.A. from the
University of Arizona, a M.M. from the University of Michigan and a B.M.
from the University of the Pacific. Her teachers include Jerry
Kirkbride, David Shifrin and William Dominik.
Mary Kantor received her Bachelor of Music
degree from the University of Washington and graduated from the Academy
of Music in Vienna with Honors in clarinet performance, class of Rudolf
Jettel. She is currently principal clarinetist with the Bellevue
Philharmonic and the Seattle Choral Company, a member of the Shalom
Ensemble, and plays with the Temple B'nai Torah musicians for Friday
night Shabbat services. As a soloist, she has performed the Mozart
Concerto and Richard Strauss' Duet-Concertino with Philharmonia
Northwest. She has also performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle
Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, as
well as on numerous movie soundtracks. As an educator, she coaches both
the Seattle Youth Symphony and Cascade Youth Symphony clarinet sections,
and is Professor of Clarinet at SPU. She also appears in Who's Who in
America, 59th and 60th editions.
In November 2010, the European Clarinet
Association will officially be inaugurated at the first European Clarinet
Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Membership fees are 5€ and give you special access to all information on the
upcoming website of the European Clarinet Association (ECA).
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The
European
Clarinet
Association
was
brought
into
life by
clarinetists
from all
over the
European
continent
to
improve
communication
between
clarinetists,
clarinet
lovers
and
national
clarinet
associations
in
Europe.
Please
join us
and
become
part of
a new
initiative
to
actively
support
the
diverse
and
culturally
rich
clarinet
scene in
Europe!
Best
regards,
Matthias
Müller,
Switzerland,
president
Simone
Weber,
Luxembourg,
secretary
Arkadiusz
Adamski,
Poland
David
Campbell,
England
Heike
Fricke,
Germany
Luigi
Magistrelli,
Italy
Pedro
Rubio,
Spain
Eddy
VanOosthuyse,
Belgium
(read
less)
The
European
Clarinet
Association
was
brought
into
life by
clarinetists
from all
over the
European
continent
to
improve
communication
between
clarinetists,
clarinet
lovers
and
national
clarinet
associations
in
Europe.
Please
join us
and
become
part of
a new
initiative
to
actively
support
the
diverse
and
culturally
rich
clarinet
scene in
Europe!
Best
regards,
Matthias
Müller,
Switzerland,
president
Simone
Weber,
Luxembourg,
secretary
Arkadiusz
Adamski,
Poland
David
Campbell,
England
Heike...
(read
more)
Mission:
The ECA
functions as
a mediator
between
clarinetists
and clarinet
societies,
providing a
website
containing
information
about
concerts,
competitions,
master
classes,
auditions,
CD releases,
new
publications,
etc...
The ECA also
takes part
in
organizing
an annual
European
Clarinet
Festival in
collaboration
with various
national
clarinet
societies,
the first
one taking
place in
Kortrijk,
Belgium,
from
November
4-7, 2010
1°
International Clarinet Competition Kortrijk, Belgium
1°
round/Preliminary round
·
Cadenzen concerto-Nielsen
·
Make your choise :
L. Berio/Sequenza
A. Laporte/Sequenza
P. Boulez/Domaines (originaux + miroir)
E. Denissow/Sonata
V. Bucchi/Concerto
J. Widman/Fantaisie
L. Basset/Soliloquies
M. Müller/ 6 études de concert
(jumping around + vals appogiaturato)
2°
round
·
1° Rhapsodie/Debussy (by memory)
·
Make your choise :
J. Brahms/Sonate n° 1
J. Brahms/Sonate n° 2
R. Schumann/Fantasiestücke op. 73
Semi-Final
·
Make your choice (by memory)
C.M von Weber/Concerto n° 1
C.M. von Weber/concerto n° 2
·
Make your choice
H. Tomasi/Concerto
J. Françaix/Concerto
I. Gotkovsky/Concerto lyrique
J. Corigliano/Concerto
·
Make your choice
F. Poulenc/Sonata
L. Bernstein/Sonata
B. Martinu/Sonatine
Ch. M. Widor/Introduction et Rondo
Ch. Camilleri/Sonatina
Finals
·
Mozart/Clarinet Quintet
·
Donnatoni/Clair
·
Brossé/War Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic/the Flemish Radio Orchestra,
conductor : Dirk Brossé
Sunday, 14 & 20 November Concerts with Richard
Nunemaker and
15 - 20 November 2010
Lima, Peru
"Este Festival tiene como misión
sentir, pensar y actuar en nuestro medio pluricultural y, también,
llevar adelante este género de actividades para, a través de la
interrelación de destacados músicos y la presencia de jóvenes
especialmente en edad educativa secundaria y superior, sean motivados a
cultivar el Clarinete e intervenir decididamente en los procesos
culturales de nuestro país."
Este 1er Festival Internacional de Clarinetes, se realizará del
lunes 15 al sábado 20 de Noviembre, en las instalaciones del Museo
de la Nación. Brindaremos la posibilidad a clarinetistas y músicos
en general, de Latinoamérica y el resto del mundo, de participar de:
1.- Master Class
2.- Clínica de Cañas, a cargo de la famosa marca RICO
3.- Clinica de Mantenimiento del Clarinete a cargo del clarinetista Fari
Laurente
4.- Recitales con piano, y Concierto de gala con los maestros invitados
acompañados de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Nacional del Perú.
5.- Oquesta Peruana de Clarinetes (O.P.C.)
6.- Presentación de los nuevos barriles para clarinete marca Vintage,
del clarinetista Fari Laurente.
7.- Material de obsequio Cortesia de Rico y Vandoren.
Para inscribirte en las actividades, elige una de las dos modalidades
disponibles:
Activo (Permite participar de TODAS las actividades y a 2
master-class) s/. 150.00 (US$50.00)
Oyente (Permite participar de Todas las actividades a
excepción de los Master Class) s/. 105.00 (US$35.00)
Para los inscriptos en cualquiera de estas 2 opciones,
todos los conciertos son gratuitos.
At the conclusion of the 2008-2009
Season, New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker
celebrated 60 years as a member of the Orchestra. In honor of this
milestone anniversary, he became an honorary member of the Philharmonic
Society of New York, the first orchestral musician so honored.
The Philharmonic estimates that he has performed in 10,200 concerts,
which is approximately 70% of the total number of their concerts since
1842. He has been Principal Clarinetist for a record 48 years, making
close to 200 appearances as soloist and chamber musician with the
orchestra. He played under 9 Music Directors, among them Bruno Walter,
Dmitri Mitropolous, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. He
has performed in 60 countries on tour. He is listed in the Guinness Book
of World Records as "Longest Career as a Clarinetist."
Mr. Drucker maintains an active solo career, appearing with
ensembles throughout the world. He has been nominated twice for Grammy
Awards in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist/Classical with
Orchestra: In 1992 for his recording of the Copland Concerto with the
Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein, and in 1982 for John Corigliano's
Concerto with the Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. Mr. Drucker is featured
on a number of other Philharmonic recordings: under the direction of
Leonard Bernstein in Debussy's Premiere Rapsodie; in Carl Nielsen's
Clarinet Concerto; and in the World-Premiere live performance (1977) of
the Corigliano Clarinet Concerto, which is a part of the Orchestra's
acclaimed CD box set, The Historic Broadcasts: 1923-1987. Mr. Drucker's
other recordings include New York Legends: Recitals with Principals from
the New York Philharmonic; Schumann's Complete Works for Winds and
Piano; the Mozart Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A, K.581, and a
two-CD set of the two clarinet sonatas, Trio in A minor, and Quintet in
B minor of Brahms entitled Drucker Plays Brahms. He is also heard on the
World-Premiere broadcast of William Bolcom's Clarinet Concerto, part of
the New York Philharmonic Special Editions boxed set An American
Celebration.
In recognition of his highly respected and widely acknowledged
musical excellence and dedication, he was named Musical America's 1998
Instrumentalist of the Year. Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Mr. Drucker began
clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, his principal teacher,
and later attended the High School of Music and Art and The Curtis
Institute of Music. He was appointed Principal Clarinetist of the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at age 16, of the Adolf Busch Chamber
Players at age 17, and of the Buffalo Philharmonic at age 18.
He lives in Massapequa with his wife, Naomi, Director of the
American Chamber Ensemble and recipient of a LIMHoF LISA Award. Their
son is Lee Rocker, solo artist and former bassist of the Stray Cats and
Big Blue, and their daughter Roseanne is a singer living and recording
in Nashville.