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31 March 2012
Dr Cynthia Doggett, Director
Pella, Iowa USA
Summary information
coming soon
31 March 2012
5th Annual Troy University (Alabama) Clarinet Day - Dr Timothy Phillips,
Director
Troy, Alabama USA
The 5th Troy University Clarinet Day, under VIP Professor Timothy Phillips and
Katrina Phillips, has indicated a major quality evolution of this program, with
an expansive artist array of faculty as posted above. The program
intensive all day included Master Classes by the faculty, Industry and Sales
exhibits from the many sponsors, and rehearsal preparation for the concerts held
that day including a Faculty Recital, ensemble concerts, and the Final Concert
including the Clarinet Choir, conducted by Guest Artist Julia Georges and
Dr Phillips. Photos detailing the day and Programs are galleried to
see how the day went. As can be expected, this was a day of inspiration
for the students who had this chance to see themselves on path to improvements
by exposure to the diverse quality offerings here. Certain credit is due
to Timothy and Katrina Phillips, who organized and fulfilled this success.
30 March 2012
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
(CEO)
Mike Getzin of the World
Clarinet Alliance - WKA, retires after 39 years of total Government
Service including 20 years in the US Premiere Bands USMA Band at West Point, The
US Army Band (Pershing's Own), and the USAREUR Band in Heidelberg, Germany (20)
and Federal Service in Civilian and Military Personnel in Germany and at the
USMEPCOM Military Entrance Station at Glen Jean, West Virginia- Awarded
Commander's Award for Civilian Service and Retirement Certificate by MEPS
Commander Major Clark - Retirement effective 1 April 2012
Glen Jean, West Virginia USA
After over 39 years of total US Government service, with a 20 year Army career
in the 3 Premiere Bands posted above and serving as Clarinetist and Section and
Group Leader, and in Federal Service in Germany in Civilian and Military
Personnel, finishing his career under USMEPCOM at the Military Entrance
Processing at Glen Jean, West Virginia, Mike Getzin is retired effective 1
April. During his Army Career, Mr Getzin founded a virtuoso Chamber
ensemble at West Point named the Lydian Chamber Players, a composite ensemble
spanning 3 centuries of Chamber music with diverse instrumental combinations
that has performed in New York at major Universities and concert halls including
Lincoln Center, and in Washington. In 1980, organized the first Klar/Fest
81, which evolved and made possible growth in concept in Clarinet Festivals with
extensive artist and performing Organization collaboration. In 1988,
together with major Clarinetists and Sir Neville Marriner in Stuttgart, Germany
organized the World Clarinet Alliance, all while on Active Duty.
Federal Service included Civilian Personnel and processing records of Military
Personnel. At USMEPCOM, involved in processing applicants for
military service. During this period of service, administered and
maintained the WKA including website administration, website maintenance and
upgrading, and official representation and promotion of the organization, and
association with the major Clarinet artist icons worldwide. At retirement,
Mike Getzin will be increasing WKA activity to expand and improve the
International growth and prestige and to serve all clarinetists and musicians
and students.
28 March 2012
Houston Clarinet Ensemble Texas Tour with Premieres, VIP
Richard Nunemaker, Director
Houston, Texas USA
The Houston Clarinet Ensemble did a two week tour of parts of Texas. 1,913 miles
later they got back to Houston. Two premiere performances. Reynaldo Ochoa
El Mirador and Robert Nelson's
Clarinet Quartet. Composer Jody Rockmaker also was on tour with the
Ensemble. The Quartet performed Rockmker's
Rothko Landscapes and
Magical Place of My Dreams. Both pieces commissioned and recorded by Richard
Nunemaker. Extensive use of all in the Clarinet family were utilized
including 15 instruments per concert.
Stops are listed on the Tour announcement posted in the top gallery, with a
Master Class held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
From the
International Clarinet Congress - Denver 1979, Eddie Daniels, Pamela Weston,
Karl Leister, and Mike Getzin
28 March 2012
Keith Bowen Awarded the
'Pamela
Weston Clarinet award
for Doctoral Study'
London, United Kingdom
The Royal
College of Music is delighted to announce a doctoral award for research students
with an interest in the clarinet or related members of the clarinet family.
Keith Bowen Awarded the Pamela Weston
Clarinet Award for Doctoral Study.
Applicants for
the award should be intending to undertake
doctoral research into any aspect of the clarinet family. Submissions across
theory and practice, i.e. combining text-based and practical research, are
particularly welcome.
Among
the RCM’s professorial staff are some of the world’s leading clarinet players
and scholars. In addition, the RCM's Library and Collections contain substantial
holdings of manuscripts, programmes and other materials relating to the
clarinet.
The
award is funded by the late Pamela Weston and will cover full tuition fees for a
UK or EU student for three years full-time or four years part-time study. The
closing date for receipt of applications was 31 January and the successful
candidate will take up the studentship in September 2012.
Please
contact Dr Ingrid Pearson, Research Fellow in Performance Practice, for informal
advice prior to making an application (+44 (0)20
7591 4364 or iepearson@rcm.ac.uk).
Further
details about the application process are available on the RCM website.
Prof.
Keith Bowen FRS qualified in Metallurgy at Oxford University, UK, and spent
thirty years as an engineering professor and researcher at the University of
Warwick, followed by ten years as technical director of a scientific instrument
company (Bede plc). Since (partially!) retiring in 2005 he studied for a Diploma
in Music and MA in Music at the Open University (UK), both awarded with
Distinction. He specialized in classical-period performance practice and in the
history of the bass clarinet in A. His paper on the bass clarinet in A won first
prize at the International Clarinet Association and joint first prize at the
European Clarinet Association Research Competitions, both in 2010. In September
2012 he will commence a PhD course at the Royal College of Music for which he
has gained the Pamela Weston Doctoral Award.
A
lifelong amateur clarinetist, he performs 2nd clarinet, basset horn
and bass clarinet with the pro-am Spires Philharmonic Orchestra, Coventry, UK,
which he also chairs (www.spiresmusic.org.uk). He is President of Kammermusik
Workshops (Santa Fe, NM USA:
www.kammermusikworkshops.org), and is a woodwind coach at the Ischia Chamber
Music Festival (www.ischiafestival.it).
He has studied clarinet with Lesley Schatzberger (UK), Lori Lovato (New Mexico
Symphony Orchestra) and Forest Aten (Dallas Opera) and bass clarinet with Sarah
Watts (soloist, UK). He plays Wurlitzer Schmidt Reform A, B
flat and C clarinets,
Stephen Fox basset horns, E flat clarinet and basset clarinet extension, and
Buffet Prestige and Fritz Wurlitzer bass clarinets. He also maintains and
restores vintage clarinets.
19 March 2012
D Stanley Hasty Tribute by former Eastman Student
and Professor at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) Kevin Schempf 19 March
2012
Bowling Green, Ohio USA
Clarinetist’s legacy
lives on at BGSU
Posted by cdahn in all, faculty news, instrumental
VIP Kevin Schempf, former Eastman student and Professor at Bowling Green State
University in Ohio
Renowned clarinetist and Eastman School of Music professor Stanley Hasty saw
greatness in BGSU’s College of Musical Arts. Hasty had presented master classes
at Bowling Green in 2001 and 2008, and he chose to leave a collection of
materials, music and instruments to Kevin Schempf, his former student who
currently is sharing his version of a Hasty education with clarinet students at
BGSU.
“Mr. Hasty was aware that our College of Musical Arts and its faculty are known
for turning out great graduates and professionals,” Schempf said about Hasty’s
connection to BGSU. “He loved to teach, and he knew that teaching our students
is what we do best here.”
Hasty was a masterful teacher, and he demanded the very best from his students,
Schempf said. “He had a unique gift for making the music understandable and
sound beautiful by breaking down the mystery of music into simple principles.“
While
Hasty was arguably one of the best clarinet teachers of the 20th century, he
also was a man of few words, Schempf recalled. “He didn’t teach us to be like
him, but he would first teach us to read and perform music in his way and then
help us find a way to make it our own,” he added.
And making
music his own is exactly what Schempf has done following his Eastman School of
Music education with Professor Hasty. Schempf started his professional career as
a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the United States Coast Guard
Band, and he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit
Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Toledo Symphony, the Fort Wayne
Philharmonic and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. He recently performed for two
weeks with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and appeared with them at Avery
Fisher Hall in New York City… He also has played internationally in Germany,
Russia, Sweden, China and Japan, and serves as solo clarinetist with the
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. However much like his Eastman professor, Schempf
has discovered his real passion is teaching. He has been teaching clarinet at
BGSU for 13 years and loves the opportunity to work with talented young
musicians.
It
is that strong commitment to teaching that most likely contributed to Schempf
and BGSU being gifted the collection. “I am honored to have the
collection in my possession,” he said, because admittedly it could have gone to
any number of other Hasty protégés who have had acclaimed careers. He believes
it was because Hasty knew “BG is one of those schools where faculty and students
are part of a melting pot with a significant amount of diversity and a passion
for excellence,” Schempf said. Hasty also didn’t want the collection to be about
him, so BGSU’s College of Musical Arts, where education is at the core of the
curriculum, seemed to be a good fit.
The collection includes
one or two boxes of Hasty’s personal scores, three volumes of hand-written
orchestral books, the canes and equipment he used to craft clarinet reeds, an
untold number of recordings of his and his students, and his prized clarinet. As
humble and private as Hasty was, Schempf wants to make sure his greatness is not
forgotten. The recordings and scanned copies of the music scores will be shared
with the BGSU Music and Sound Recordings Archives in the William T. Jerome
Library. Eventually, Schempf will hand off the actual scores and the clarinet to
the next generation of great clarinetists whose lives were forever changed
because of the impact of his great clarinet professor.
1st
Edition
of
the
International
Clarinet
Competition
Jacques
Lancelot
with
3
winners:
1st
prize:
Sang
Yoon
Kim
(Korea)
2nd
prize:
Giovanni
Punzi
(Italy)
3rd
prize
/
Public
Award
/
"Young
Talent"
award:
Franck
Russo
(France)
CONGRATULATIONS
to
them
(fantastic
interpretations)
and
special
thanks
to
Aude
Richard-Camus
for
the
organization.
MERCI.
3 - 10 March 2012
Rouen, France
The Jacques Lancelot
International Clarinet Competition is the result of
wanting to honor the memory of one of the greatest French
clarinetists of his generation by creating a competition named
after him. Created by Aude Richard-Camus, clarinet professor of
the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional de Rouen (CRR of Rouen)
and artistic director of the Jacques Lancelot International
Clarinet Competition, the
first competition
will be celebrated in
March 2012 in Rouen,
France.
For a week in March 2012, the city of Rouen became a place of
musical effervescence, unforgettable musical sharing and
numerous encounters with outstanding musicians. Two institutions
known for their cultural richness : the
CRR of Rouen,
directed by
Claire Paris Messler, and
the
Théâtre des Arts, directed by
Frederic Roels, became the hosts for
the 70 candidates pre-selected from the first taped audition, the
members of the jury and the audience for all the rounds, the
concerts and all the musical encounters.
The goal of this event
focused on
three levels: international, professional
and educational.
International
The city of Rouen and
its Conservatory are emblematic of
Jacques Lancelot's
life.
Lancelot was born in
Rouen and worked as a professor of the CRR of Rouen for 42
years. Nevertheless in spite of his strong local roots, his
musical stature and prestige largely surpassed French
boundaries. Japan, in particular, is the home country of many
professional and amateur clarinetists who are former students of
Jacques Lancelot. This is the reason why both countries, Japan
and France, have decided to join to organize this competition,
which will take place every two years, alternating the country
that hosts the competition between France, where the first
(2012) will be celebrated, and Japan, who will host the second
in 2014. The partnership and collaboration between these two
countries to organize this competition is, to us, a unique
example and also the signature trait of this competition, which
will be characterized by a strong international component, and
which welcomes candidates of all nationalities.
Professional
An international music
competition always sets the spotlight on young talents and the
accomplishment of winning a competition is always a great
calling card for a young musician as well as being very helpful
in gaining recognition, but we want to even further to help the
winner of the first prize of the competition by offering him or
her a two-year contract for a tour of concerts and recitals
throughout France and other countries.
On the week after the final round of the competition, the winner
of the first prize performed as a soloist, accompanied by the Orchestre de
l'Opéra de Rouen/Haute Normandie, the Jean Françaix Concerto for
Clarinet and Orchestra, composed for and dedicated to Jacques
Lancelot. In project : the winner would also be able to
participate in
concerts during the
2012-2013 season with the
Orchestre de Besançon/Franche-Comté,
directed by
Jean-Francois Verdier.
Besides this, many other concerts in France, Japan, United
States and Costa Rica are being organized, which means that it
is really the beginning of a career as a soloist that is being
offered to the winner of the Jacques Lancelot International
Clarinet Competition.
Educational
The Jacques Lancelot
International Clarinet Competition has been conceived as an
event of exchange, sharing, emotion and motivation for its
participants, but also for the students of the Conservatory of
Rouen and for all interested people.
This is why all of the
preliminary phases of the competition and even its final will be
open to the public. The preliminary phases of the competition,
even the semi-final, will take place in the
Conservatory of Rouen and will be accessible to the
public by buying a ticket valid for the whole week. The final
round of the competition will take place in the
Théâtre des Arts de Rouen with the participation of
the
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen/Haute Normandie
and will be part of their musical season.
In addition, we wanted
to go even further to share the benefits of this event by taking
into consideration the special opportunities possible due to the
visit of the international soloists who will make up the jury.
Their presence in Rouen will provide us the opportunity to enjoy
two events : a gala concert and master classes.
The gala concert will
take place before the week of the competition at the
Conservatory of Rouen and will be an exceptional musical event
because it will bring together some of today's best
clarinetists. But this is not all; the gala concert will also
feature the Orchestra of the Conservatory of Rouen, conducted by
Claude Brendel, which will give the students of the Conservatory
who comprise this orchestra the remarkable chance to share and
play with such renowned artists.
Concerning the
master classes, there were four two-hour
sessions at the Conservatory of Rouen during the week of the
competition. Such classes will be open to public and the
participants will be recruited nationally in France, giving the
possibility to every clarinet student in France of becoming an
active participant in such a privileged moment of exchange.
The Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet Competition, as the
important musical event it will be, fits perfectly and naturally in the great
musical and clarinetistic tradition of our country, where it
will become a great musical calling card. In fact, the French
clarinet school, of which Jacques Lancelot is an important
member, is known and recognized worldwide. Such tradition of
excellence is represented, for example, in the great
international clarinet competitions won by our compatriots and
also manifests itself in the strong interest that students
worldwide have in our conservatories. The CRR of Rouen itself,
directed by Claire Paris Messler, is also a regular host for
clarinet students who come from all over the world, specifically
countries such as China, Japan and Costa Rica. The participation
of our institutions (the CRR of Rouen and the Théâtre des Arts)
by hosting the rounds of this competition is evidence of their
enthusiasm for the development of music locally as well as
internationally.
Gilles Camus
President of the Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet
Competition Association
3 March 2012
Camila
Barrientos Ossio - Winner of Harold Wright Clarinet Merit Award - 2012,
Sponsored by the
Boston Woodwind Society
Boston, Massachusetts USA
-
Camila
Barrientos
Ossio
-
Harold
Wright
Clarinet
Merit
Award
-
2012
Ms.
Barrientos
is a
graduate
of
the
Master
of
Music
Program
at
the
Manhattan
School
of
Music
in
New
York,
where
she
also
received
her
Bachelor
in
Music
Diploma
and
studied
with
Mark
Nuccio.
While
studying
there
she
was
a
recipient
of
the
Leon
Russianoff
Memorial
Scholarship.
Ms.
Barrientos
currently
freelances
in
New
York.
Past
performances
include
a
tour
with
the
award-‐
winning
woodwind
quintet
the
City
of
Tomorrow
and
participation
in
the
first
Bolivia
Clasica
Festival
alongside
musicians
Phillip
Dukes,
Adrian
Brendel
and
Ana-‐Maria
Vera.
As
part
of
this
festival
Barrientos,
a
champion
at
playing
at
high
altitudes,
performed
a
recital
in
the
Island
of
the
Sun
in
Lake
Titicaca
located
at
13,000
ft
above
sea
level.
She
has
also
been
recently
featured
in
the
BBC
Arts
Radio
Program
“The
Strand.”
Upcoming
engagements
include
a
City
of
Tomorrow
recital
for
the
Myra
Hess
concert
series
in
Chicago
and
a
winter
residency
for
BANFF
with
the
same
ensemble.
The
competition
honors
the
memory
and
artistry
of
former
Boston
Symphony
Orchestra
principal
clarinetist
Harold
Wright.
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.
Boston Woodwind Society has established merit awards to honor the artistry and achievements of five legendary woodwind musicians. The awards are presented annually to outstanding young students hoping to fulfill their dreams of entering the world of professional players. Selected through open competitions by woodwind artists and faculty members of leading schools of music, each recipient of an award receives a cash prize of $1,000. The purpose of these awards is to encourage and to recognize achievements of high standards of musical integrity and artistry as exemplified by the artists for whom the awards have been named.
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