Washington, DC
Metro Area
The U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artist Competition 2008
Deadline for CD’s and
application: Monday, February 11, 2008
Final Round: Monday, March 10, 2008 from 7-9 PM
at
Brucker Hall, Fort Myer
Performance with U.S. Army Orchestra: Sunday,
May 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM at the
Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
Download application
First place winner will appear as featured soloist with The U.S.
Army Orchestra at the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, on
Sunday, MAY 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM (No tickets
required).
All award winners, finalists and honorable mentions will be
invited to join The U.S. Army Orchestra in one performance number on
May 4, 2008.
Each contestant will receive a written evaluation of their
competition entry.
Eligibility
The Young Artist Competition is open to Washington, DC-area high
school string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists in
grades 9-12. (DC-area to include the District of Columbia, Prince
Georges Co., Montgomery Co., Howard Co., Anne Arundel Co., Fairfax
Co., Fairfax City, City of Falls Church, Prince William Co., Loudoun
Co., Arlington Co., Alexandria City, and Baltimore County.)
Applications may be accepted from students who do not live in these
jurisdictions, but have a connection to them through either a
musical organization or a private teacher.
PLEASE NOTE: Competition participants
must be available to compete in the finals on
Monday, March 10 and rehearse and perform with the U.S.
Army Orchestra on the afternoon of Sunday, May 4, 2008.
All students are eligible to receive a written evaluation of their
competition entry regardless of availability.
Former U.S. Army Orchestra Competition first place winners or
performers under professional management are not eligible to
compete.
Application Procedure & Deadlines
- Submit a CD recording of applicant performing required
musical selection in its entirety with piano accompaniment.
Guidelines for repertoire are listed in the next section under “What
to Play.” Include only name of piece performed and
applicant’s address when labeling CD. (No DVD’s, please).
- Submit
application with all information and signatures complete.
- Application and CD must be received by Monday,
February 11, 2008. Please allow at least 7 to 10
business days for all mail delivery to Fort Myer, excluding
overnight express. You will be notified by email when your entry
is received. If you would like additional confirmation, please
call or email Master Sgt. Laura Knutson:
Master Sgt. Laura Knutson
laura.knutson@fmmc.army.mil
(703) 696-6043
The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
The U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artist Competition 2008
ATTN: Master Sgt. Laura Knutson
400 McNair Road
Fort Myer, VA 22211-1306
Finalists and honorable mentions will be notified once
evaluation of CD’s is completed.
- The final round will consist of a live audition with piano
accompaniment (provided by applicant) at
Brucker Hall, Fort Myer on Monday, March 10, 7-9 PM. For
more information (including repertoire inquiries), call Master
Sgt. Laura Knutson at (703) 696-6043 or
laura.knutson@fmmc.army.mil.
What To Play
Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to choose one (1)
selection from the list below. Selections not on this list must be
approved, to ensure availability of orchestral accompaniment parts,
prior to submission of application and CD. Please direct questions
about repertoire to
laura.knutson@fmmc.army.mil.
Clarinet
- Concerto K622, 1st
movement (Rondo) or 3rd movement (Allegro), by Mozart
(International)
- Concertino by Carl Maria
von Weber (Kendor Music)
- Concerto No. 1 or 2, 1st
movement, by C.M von Weber
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Monday, February 18,
2008
Dr. Deborah Andrus,
director
The clarinet program at Moravian College is
pleased to present the first Bethlehem Clarinet
Festival. A day of recitals, workshops, clarinet
expo, master classes, and a concert featuring
the renowned chamber ensemble, The Verdehr Trio.
Register now and bring your instrument to
perform in the Festival Clarinet Choir.
FEATURING The Verdehr Trio
An
acknowledged leader in the field of new music,
the Verdehr
Trio for over thirty years has concentrated
on molding and defining the personality of the
violin-clarinet-piano trio. The Trio has over
the years created a large repertoire by
commissioning over 200 new works from some of
the world's most prominent and exciting
composers--known and unknown, young and old,
from this country and abroad. These efforts
are entitled The Making of a Medium because, in
a real sense, this is what has happened over the
years.
A handful of earlier trios by Bartok,
Stravinsky, Milhaud, Khachaturian, Berg, Krenek,
Poulenc and Ives showed the potential tonal and
musical possibilities of this grouping. Now,
with more than 230 total works in this genre,
the violin-clarinet-piano trio has become a
viable chamber music medium whose substantial
literature may be recognized together with other
major mediums as the piano trio, woodwind and
brass quintets and the piano quartet. To round
out its repertoire with Classical and Romantic
works, the Trio has rediscovered as well as
transcribed 18th and 19th century pieces for
inclusion in its concert programs.
The Verdehr Trio has performed throughout the
world: in seventeen European countries, the
former Soviet Union, in South and Central
America as well as in Asia, Australia and in
almost all of the United States. Among major
concert halls where the Trio has appeared are
Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Library of
Congress, Vienna's Brahmssaal, Sydney Opera
House, London's Wigmore Hall, Auditorio de
Madrid, Dvorak Hall in Prague, IRCAM Centre in
Paris and Leningrad's Philharmonic Chamber Hall.
The Trio has also played at various
international festivals--the Spoleto Festival,
Prague Spring Festival, the Vienna Spring
Festival, Warsaw Autumn, the Grand Teton Music
Festival and at numerous international clarinet
festivals. Recently the Trio received a Creative
Programming Award from Chamber Music America.
The Verdehr Trio is in residence at Michigan
State University. An article about the Trio
appears in the new Groves Dictionary of Music
and the Trio won an Adventuresome Programming
Award from ASCAP and Chamber Music America.
8:00 am - Noon |
Registration & Coffee -
Foy Lobby
Repairs by Scott Brodt of Nazareth Music
Center |
8:00 am - 4:00 pm |
Clarinet EXPO - Payne Art Gallery |
Recital I |
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9:00 am- 9:45 pm |
Sanders,
Schwartz, Andrus,
Pearson
In Foy Concert Hall |
Clarinet Choir Rehearsal |
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10:00 am -
10:50 am |
Bring
your instrument and rehearse for the
evening performance with Neil
Wetzel, Director
of Jazz Studies in Foy Concert Hall |
Master Class I |
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11:00 am - Noon |
Master Class with
Raphael Sanders
In Foy Concert Hall |
Lunch Break |
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Noon- 1:00 pm |
Lunch on own on campus
or in a Main Street eatery |
Master Class II |
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1:00 pm -
2 pm |
Master Class with
Deborah Andrus and
John Schwartz
In Peter Hall
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Master Class III |
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2:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
Master Class with Elsa
Ludewig-Verdehr
In Peter Hall |
Break |
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3:30 pm -
4:00 pm |
Visit the
Displays in the Payne Art Gallery! |
Clarinet Choir Dress Rehearsal
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4:00 pm -
5:00 pm |
Clarinet Choir (Bring
Your instrument)
In Foy Concert Hall |
Dinner Break |
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5:00 pm -
6:30 pm |
Dinner on own on
campus or in a Main Street eatery |
Recital II |
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6:30 pm - 7:15 pm |
Allentown Symphony
Clarinet Trio performing Reisteter
premiere and Festival Clarinet Choir
conducted by Neil
Wetzel
In Foy Concert Hall |
Featured Concert |
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7:30 pm
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The Verdehr Trio
In Foy Concert Hall |
Full Program
(including Verdehr Trio concert):
$40 General / $20 Student (postmarked by Feb 8)
$50 General / $25 Student (after Feb 8)
Verdehr Trio concert
Only:
$15 General / $10 Student
Bethlehem Clarinet
Festival T-shirts
$8 each (Adult sizes only: S, M, L, XL, XXL)
Registration Form (PDF)
For more information call
610-861-1650 / email
music@moravian.edu
Act 48 credit available for K-12 educators.
Moravian is a private, coeducational,
selective liberal arts college located in
eastern Pennsylvania tracing it's founding to
1742. It is recognized as America's sixth oldest
college. Music degrees include a Bachelors of
Arts in Music and a Bachelor of Music in
performance (vocal, instrumental, jazz), music
education, composition, or sacred music.
The Bachelor of Arts program allows for
musical study within a liberal arts curriculum.
The Bachelor of Music is for students who desire
more comprehensive music studies. Study in
clarinet includes private lessons, ensembles,
clarinet pedagogy, clarinet literature,
twentieth century techniques, and recitals.
DEBORAH ANDRUS is the
second clarinetist with the Allentown Symphony
Orchestra, and is a member of SATORI, the
Southeastern Trio and the East Winds Quintet.
Before moving to Pennsylvania, she held the
principal clarinet position with the Natchez
Opera Festival Orchestra, and has performed with
diverse ensembles throughout the United States.
Dr. Andrus performed at the International
Clarinet Association Clarinetfest in Atlanta, GA
in August 2006, performing Matthew Quayle's
Trio, a work she commissioned in 2004. She also
commissioned De Profundis by Patrick Long, which
she played at the Potsdam Single-Reed Summit in
October 2006. In 2008, Dr. Andrus will perform
at the New Jersey and Oklahoma Clarinet
Symposiums.
Dr. Andrus is the Artist-Lecturer in Clarinet at
Moravian College, Susquehanna University and
Lehigh University. Formerly, she was Professor
of Clarinet at Delta State University in
Cleveland, Mississippi and at Southeastern
Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She
earned her doctorate in 1998 as a Presidential
Fellow at The Ohio State University. Originally
from New York State, Dr. Andrus received her BM
from The Crane School at SUNY Potsdam, and the
MM from Michigan State University. Her teachers
include Alan Woy, James Pyne, Theodore Oien,
Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and Mark Nuccio. During the
summer, she teaches and performs at the New
England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. Dr. Andrus
is an Artist-Clinician for the Buffet-Crampon
USA Corporation, and plays Buffet R-13
clarinets.
VALERIE PEARSON is an
active clarinetist and teacher in the Lehigh
Valley of Pennsylvania. She holds a BA degree in
Music from Moravian College, and a BSE degree in
Paper Engineering from Western Michigan
University. She is an artist-lecturer at
Moravian College and at the Eastern Conservatory
of Music in New Jersey. As a clarinetist, she
currently plays in the Allentown Band and in the
Moravian Clarinet Choir. Previously, Ms. Pearson
performed with the Columbia Orchestra and the
Columbia Concert Band in Columbia, Maryland, and
the Chattanooga Concert Band and Chattanooga
Clarinet Choir in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She
has performed in master classes with Mark Nuccio
of the New York Philharmonic, Robert DiLutis of
the Rochester Philharmonic, and John Schwartz of
the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Her primary
teachers include Deborah Andrus, Christopher
DiSanto, Marguerite Baker-Levin, Nikolasa Tejero
and Maurita Murphy Mead. Valerie currently
resides in Nazareth with her husband and two
daughters.
STEVE REISTETER was
born and raised in Bethlehem, PA. He is a member
of the Allentown Band, the Allentown Symphony,
the Hanover Woodwind Quintet and frequently
plays in the the pit orchestras for area
musicals. As a pop musician, he has performed
with Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope,
Clay Aiken, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters,
The Four Tops, The Temptations and the national
touring company of “Grease.” A published
composer, Steve’s compositions have performed
across the world by such groups as the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Amherst Saxophone
Quartet, the US Coast Guard Academy Band. He
also has written theater and film scores. One
film, “Tragic Irony,” for which Steve wrote and
performed the score, was recently broadcast on
the Discovery Channel. He is an elementary
school vocal and instrumental music teacher in
the Whitehall-Coplay School District and resides
in Bethlehem with his wife, Johanna.
RAPHAEL SANDERS is
currently Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the
Crane School of Music, State University of New
York at Potsdam. Dr. Sanders holds degrees from
the University of Hawaii, the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music and the University of
North Texas. Raphael’s clarinet mentors include
Robert Marcellus, David Breeden, Henry Miyamura,
and James Gillespie. Originally from Hawaii,
Raphael has performed with orchestras in San
Francisco, Houston and New York, the USAF Band,
and has taught at the college level in Texas and
Nevada. Raphael performs regularly throughout
the United States and abroad and recently
returned from a 9-day residency in Canton
(Guangzhou), China and a 4-day residency in
Cardiff (Wales, UK). He is a member of the
acclaimed group Texas Clarinet Consort, which
has performed in Sweden, Belgium, France,
England, Vancouver, and Mexico. Raphael
performed his New York City debut recital in
June 2005, followed by solo performances in
Flushing, Douglaston, Manhattan, and the Weil
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2006. Dr.
Sanders is a performing artist with Buffet
Crampon, conducts clinics and masterclasses
throughout America, and recently completed a
tour of Colorado and Texas. He is also a gold
performing artist with D’Addario. He is
currently the I.C.A. New York State Chair. At
Crane, Dr. Sanders teaches applied clarinet,
clarinet tech and directs the critically
acclaimed Crane Clarinet Choir. In 1997 Raphael
established the I.C.A. Orchestral Audition
Competition. He has been teaching at Blue Lake
Fine Arts Camp in the summer since 1998.
JOHN SCHWARTZ received
his bachelor's degree from West Chester State
and a master's degree from Temple University.
Additional graduate study was done at Villanova
University. His principal clarinet teacher was
Anthony Liberio, a protege' of Gino Cioffi,
former principal clarinetist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. His tenure in the Bethlehem
Area School District included teaching at
Northeast Middle School and Freedom High School.
During that time, he also served as an
instructor at Moravian College teaching clarinet
and woodwind techniques. Currently, he teaches
clarinet privately and at the Community Music
School in Allentown. Mr. Schwartz currently
serves as principal clarinetist in the Allentown
Symphony Orchestra. He has also played with the
Allentown Band, Pottstown Symphony, Reading
Symphony and in PA Sinfonia. Additionally, he
organized and performed in the following chamber
ensembles: Leval Woodwind Quintet, Allentown
Symphony Woodwind Quintet and the Chaleureux
Trio.
Dr. Neil Wetzel is
Assistant Professor of Music at Moravian College
where he teaches saxophone and is Director of
Jazz Studies. Having earned both a BM (Jazz Perf.)
and MAT degrees from the University of the Arts
in Philadelphia, in 2007 he completed the EdD
program at Teacher's College, Columbia
University. His dissertation focused on teaching
jazz improvisation. As founder and music
director of Moravian College's summer music
camp, July Jazz Getaway, Mr. Wetzel has worked
and played with Clark Terry, Al Grey, Terrell
Stafford, Milt Grayson, Stanley Turrentine, and
Bobby Watson. He has backed many great
performers including Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole,
Bob Hope, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters, the
Temptations and the Four Tops. He has recorded
with the Philly Pops Orchestra and singer Patti
Page in Carnegie Hall; this CD won the 1999
Grammy for best Pop Traditional Performance. He
can also be heard on four CD's with jazz pianist
Eric Mintel: Live, Hopscotch, Dynamo and Four on
the Floor. Mr. Wetzel has also played and taught
at the Lana Jazz Festival in Lana, Italy as well
as the Karel Velebny Jazz Workshop in Frydlant,
Czech Republic.
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Master Class with Willett and Barger
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UAB Department of Music
Presents the 6th Annual UAB Clarinet Retreat, Dr Denise Gainey,
Director - 1 March 2008
Event Information
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Birmingham |
Begin Date: |
Saturday, March 1, 2008 |
End Date: |
Sunday, March 2, 2008 |
Other Location: |
UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall,
950 13th St. S. |
Registration is open to
clarinetists of all ages. The weekend features recitals,
rehearsals and master classes with clinicians as well as a final
concert. All recitals and the concert are free and open to the
public. For information or to register, contact retreat
coordinator and UAB associate professor of clarinet Denise
Gainey, D.M.A., at clarinet@uab.edu or call 205-975-0558. |
Hours: |
Call for a schedule. |
Payment
Information |
Admission: |
Free |
Clarinetist
Michael Norsworthy to Perform at Fromm Players Concerts
on
March 7 and 8 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Clarinetist Michael Norsworthy will perform the music of David
Felder
and Pierre Boulez as part of the Fromm Players at Harvard: 60 years
of
Electronic Music Concerts on Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 –
8
PM each evening at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall on the campus of
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The March 7 program, which will feature Mr. Norsworthy’s performance
of
David Felder’s Coleccion Nocturna, will also include music by
Bresnick,
Reich, Feldman, Ferneyhough and Lachenmann. Two of the composers,
Brian
Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann, are currently on the composition
faculty at Harvard.
The March 8 program, which will feature Mr. Norsworthy’s performance
of
Pierre Boulez’ Dialogue de l’ombre double, will also present music
of
Harvey, Davidovsky, Ussachevsky, Czernowin and Sims.
Other performers on these concerts will be Patti Monson, flute, Evan
Ziporyn, clarinet, Stephen Olsen, piano, Gabriela Diaz, violin,
David
Russell, cello, and Dinosaur Annex. Curated by German composer Hans
Tutschku, this year’s Fromm Festival will also employ the sound
diffusion of HYDRA, a system of multiple speakers arranged
throughout
the concert hall.
The March 7 and 8 concerts are free and open to the public. For more
information, visit
http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html#fromm
or call 617-496-6013.
A dedicated and persuasive champion of the music of our own time,
Michael Norsworthy has given premieres of over 80 works in
collaboration
with composers Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Chris Dench,
Pozzi
Escot, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Lukas Foss, Hans Werner
Henze, Magnus Lindberg, Ralph Shapey and Marc Anthony Turnage, among
many others.
As soloist, Michael Norsworthy has performed an extensive repertoire
of
concerti, ranging from Mozart to Ferneyhough, with the Aspen
Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, NEC Contemporary
Ensemble,
Pottstown Symphony, Soria Chamber Players, Southern Illinois
Symphony
and Symphony Pro Musica, while audiences have heard his numerous
recitals in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago and St. Louis. He has also
collaborated with Tony Arnold, Patrick Demenga, Stephen Drury, Aleck
Karis, John Zorn, the Borromeo String Quartet, Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra
and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Conductors he has worked
with
include Boulez, DePriest, Knussen, Levine, Muti, Robertson, Ozawa,
Tilson Thomas and many others. Michael Norsworthy plays on Buffet
Clarinets and mouthpieces by Kalmen Opperman.
For more information about clarinetist Michael Norsworthy, including
a
bio, reviews and much more, please visit
http://www.michaelnorsworthy.com/. You can also contact Jeffrey
James
Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
Second
Annual Northeast Clarinet Day - Saturday, 8 March 2008
Texas
A & M University, Commerce Texas
Texas A & M University Clarinet Day - 8 March 2008
Schedule of Events
Guest Clinician - Dr Gary Whitman,
Professor of Clarinet, Texas Christian University
Masterclass Application
The event is
designed for high school and college students from around the region
as well as for Band Directors and private teachers. All events are
free to the public and students do not need to register to attend
this event.
Master Classes will
be given by guest artist Gary Whitman, Professor of Clarinet at
Texas Christian University along with performers from this region.
The festival schedule is still
tentative, so check the websites for updated information and contact
Dr Mary Alice Druhan
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International trade fair for musical instruments, music software
and computer hardware, sheet music and accessories
Next Musikmesse in Frankfurt am Main will be held from
12 to 15 March 2008
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Musikmesse set a new record for visitor numbers in 2007. 79,700
visitors – an increase of 6.8 % compared to the year before. You
can benefit from this positive development by exhibiting your
latest products at the next Musikmesse in Frankfurt from
12 to 15 March 2008
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The Woodwind and Musical Concepts of
Joe Allard
A Masterclass Presented by Woodwind Artist and Educator
Dr. Edward Joffe
March
14, 2008 -
11am-3pm
2600
Netherland Ave. #425
Riverdale NY, 10463
Topics
to include:
Embouchure, breathing, articulation, equipment, preparing for
auditions (orchestral/university) and opportunities in today's music
business.
The class is open to both clarinetists and saxophonists. It will be
held at 2600 Netherland Ave, Riverdale, NY and is easily accessible
by NYC public transportation. The class is limited to six
participants. $50 admission charge. Please RSVP to jdaug4780@msmnyc.edu as
early as possible to reserve a seat, directions, and for possible
carpool options from Manhattan.
Joseph Allard
studied at New England Conservatory, clarinet with Gaston Hamelin,
Daniel Bonade, and Ralph Maclean, and saxophone with Chester
Hazlett.
He performed with the New York Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony
Orchestra [under the direction of Arturo Toscanini], and the NBC
Symphony of the Air. He also performed on the Firestone Radio
Shows, with Cavalcade of America, Band of America and on the Bell
Telephone Show from their first radio show to their last
television show for over 15 years. Mr. Allard was a feature solo
clarinetist on the Bell Telephone Hour.
He taught saxophone, clarinet & bass clarinet at Juilliard,
Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, New England
Conservatory, Brooklyn College, Columbia and Long Island
University. His students have performed as regular members of
every major orchestra and jazz band in the U.S. for the last 60+
years.
Versatile
woodwind artist Edward Joffe has been a vital part of the New York
music scene for over thirty years. He has performed in every type of
musical situation and taught from elementary school through graduate
school. A native New Yorker, Dr. Joffe performs recitals frequently
throughout the New York Metropolitan area.
Orchestral performances with the
New York City Ballet, Philadelphia Orchestra, New
York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic,
Westchester Philharmonic, Kirov and Bolshoi Ballets.
New Jersey City University
Professor of Woodwinds & Jazz
Chamber Music performances with the
Philip Glass Ensemble,
the
Steve Reich Ensemble, and the New York Chamber
Symphony.
Commercial
music performances/recordings with
Barry Manilow, Audra McDonald. Shirley Bassey, Ray
Charles, Mel Torme, Kiri Te Kanawa and Aretha Franklin.
Broadway
shows including
The Drowsy Chaperone, Fosse, Victor Victoria,
Oklahoma, Gypsy, Damn Yankees, Me and My Girl, and A Chorus Line
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Announcing Midwest ClariFest 2008
University of Nebraska
Friday, March 28, 2008
Featured Artist, Nathan Williams, clarinet
Nathan Williams--hailed by critics as "outstanding for his
musicality, breath control, robust and brilliant tone, and
flawless technique" (El Nuevo Dia Domingo, San Juan), "a highly
effective soloist" (The New York Times), and "a stellar musician,
capable of the most exquisite and expressive playing" (The
Winston-Salem Journal)–-has appeared as concerto soloist and given
recitals and chamber music performances at Alice Tully Hall,
Merkin Hall, and Kaufmann Hall at the 92nd St. Y, as well as
throughout the United States, and in Austria, Canada, China,
Israel, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and the
Czech Republic.
Dr. Williams has been heard in concert broadcasts on National
Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Austrian
Radio Network, NCRV (Dutch Radio), and WNCN-New York. He has taken
part in world-premiere recordings and performances of both solo
and chamber music for the New York Guild of Composers, the
Austrian Composers Foundation, the Focus! Festival at New York’s
Lincoln Center, and San Francisco’s Composers, Inc. He has
received critical acclaim for his compact disc recordings for
Albany, Composers Recordings, Inc., Naxos, New Dynamic Records,
and Arizona University Recordings. He is also a featured soloist
on "Music from the I.C.A.", distributed by the International
Clarinet Association. In 1999, Strata–-a trio he founded with
violinist James Stern and pianist Audrey Andrist--recorded works
by Aram Khachaturian, Max Bruch, Martin Rokeach, Igor Stravinsky,
and Don Freund for AUR. A duo CD with Andrist, Spontaneous Lines
(Albany Records, TROY 311), features works by American composers
Leslie Bassett, Sebastian Currier, Robert Maggio, Robert Muczynski,
and Martin Rokeach.
Dr. Williams earned the Artist Diploma with highest honors from
the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as
graduate degrees from the Eastman and Juilliard schools, where he
studied with Stanley Hasty. A former clarinetist with the
Continuum ensemble in New York, he was the principal clarinetist
of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1996 to 2003, and from 1990 to
2001 he was on the faculty of the East Carolina University School
of Music in Greenville, N. C.
Since 2001 Williams has been the Instructor of Clarinet at the
Interlochen Arts Academy. He is on the Artist Roster of Lois Scott
Management, Inc. in New York and is an Artist/Clinician for Buffet
Crampon. He also recently joined the artist faculty of the Amalfi
Coast Chamber Music Institute in Vietri-sul-Mare/Naples, Italy.
Upcoming engagements during the 2007-2008 season include
performances in Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona,
Texas, New York, Florida, Nebraska, Italy and China.
The UNL clarinet studio is looking forward to the 12th annual
Midwest ClariFest on Friday, March 28, 2008. All events will take
place in Kimball Recital Hall on the UNL campus. There is no
registration fee for the festival or for the recitals, and
clarinetists of all ages are encouraged to attend. For further
information, please contact
Dr. Diane Barger at
dbarger1@unl.edu
Click on the form below to download a PDF file of the 2008 Midwest
ClariFest flier and registration form!
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College of Musical Arts - Bowling
Green State University, Ohio, 29 March 2008
Kevin Schempf, Director
Clarinet Conference
March 29, 2008—Free
and open to the public
Hosted by
Kevin Schempf, associate professor of clarinet.
Eric Satterlee from
Meridian Winds will provide clarinet repairs and will be
selling clarinet accessories from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Special Guest Eli Eban
Eli
Eban was born in New York and received his early
musical training in Israel, studying the clarinet with Richard
Lesser and Yona Ettlinger. After serving as solo clarinetist of
the Israeli Defense Forces Band, he was accepted into the Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with
Anthony Gigliotti. Immediately upon graduation, he was appointed
principal clarinetist of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under
Lukas Foss, and shortly thereafter he joined the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra at the invitation of Maestro Zubin Mehta.
During his 13 seasons with the Israel Philharmonic, he performed
and recorded all the major orchestral repertoire, working with
pre-eminent international conductors such as Claudio Abbado,
Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Christoph von Dohnanyi,
Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Kurt Masur,
Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Georg Solti and Klaus
Tennstedt. He has appeared as a soloist with the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra on many occasions and also performed
concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican
Center, the City of London Sinfonia at Royal Festival Hall, the
Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra,
the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, the Indianapolis Chamber
Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra.
Eban tours extensively as a chamber musician, collaborating
with world-renowned artists and ensembles. He has appeared as a
guest artist with the Alexander, Audubon, Orion, St. Petersburg,
Tel Aviv and Ying quartets. He was a frequent participant of the
famed Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. While at Marlboro, he
was invited by legendary Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh to
perform at the Prussia Cove festival in England, drawing
critical acclaim from the London Guardian for his “high-powered,
electrifying performances.” His subsequent recordings for
Meridian Records, London, were cited by the Penguin Guide To CDs
as being “full of life and highly sensitive.” He has also
recorded for the Saphir, Crystal and Naxos labels. Eban was a
member of Myriad (a chamber ensemble formed by members of the
Cleveland Orchestra) for seven years, and has often traveled to
Eastern Europe to perform and teach as a visiting artist of the
European Mozart Foundation.
Eban served as visiting professor of clarinet at the Eastman
School of Music before joining the faculty of the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music in 1990. In 2007, he was named
a Rudy Professor by the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
This distinguished ranks professorship is named after James H.
Rudy, an Indiana University graduate who dedicated his estate to
the recognition and retention of outstanding faculty.
Eban divides his time between teaching at Indiana University,
performing with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and touring
as a soloist and chamber musician. He spends his summers
performing and teaching at the Sarasota Music Festival and
playing principal clarinet in the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Recent engagements include a world tour as acting principal
clarinetist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by
Lorin Maazel, and critically acclaimed performances at London’s
Wigmore Hall.
Schedule of Events
- Master Class: Eli Eban. Noon, Choral
Rehearsal Hall.
- Recital: featuring Curlette, Luevano, Belisle, Klaas,
Langworthy and Ford. 1 p.m., Bryan
Recital Hall.
- Clarinet Choir Reading Session. 3 p.m.,
Choral Rehearsal Hall.
All clarinetists are welcome to play in this.
- Concert with special guest Eli Eban.
4:30 p.m., Bryan Recital Hall. Reception following the
concert.