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PRIORITY CLARINET AND MUSIC EVENTS 2015
June 2015 Hot News
30 June 2015
VIP Mark Nuccio, Associate Solo Clarinetist in the New York Philharmonic, named as Solo Clarinetist in the Houston, Texas Symphony effective September 2015
Houston, Texas USA
27 - 28 June 2015
Louis Cahuzac Clarinet Competition, VIP Philippe Cuper, Director
Versailles, France
New News coming soon
21 - 27 June 2015
California Clarinet Clinic - VIP's Julia Heinen, William Powell, Directors -
New News coming soon
Los Angeles, California USA
15 - 19 June 2015
2nd Lift Clarinet Academy - Wesley Ferreira (Colorado State University) and Jana Starling (Western University), Directors
Fort Collins, Colorado USA
At the Lift Clarinet Academy we want you to arrive with a goal and leave with a sense of achievement. Hosted annually by Wesley Ferreira (Colorado State University) and Jana Starling (Western University), the focus is on the individual musical, technical and artistic goals of each participant. Through critical planning and communication prior to the academy, we create a program for advanced high school, undergraduate students, and graduate students that ensures you will receive the musical boost you’re looking for.
A summary is included here: http://www.liftclarinetacademy.com/#!2015-in-review/c1hsu
14 - 20 June 2015
Claremont Clarinet Festival - VIP Margaret Thornhill, Director
Pomona College, California USA
Another successful year with a full array of inspiring events and master classes by a renowned faculty with totally ambitious students. A full summary is posted below:
http://www.theclarinetonline.com/2015/09/08/margaret-thornhills-2015-claremont-clarinet-festival/
16 June 2015
Senior VIP Stanley Drucker performs Busoni Concertino with the Washington Square Festival Orchestra in
New York City USA
New News coming soon
14 June 2015
13th Annual The To Play is To Blow...To Blow is To Play...Clarinet/Saxophone Studio Clarinet recital at the University of St. Thomas Music Department, - Senior VIP Richard Nunemaker, Director
Houston, Texas USA
New News coming soon
11 - 13 June 2015
Texas Clarinet Colloquium - VIP Mary Alice Druhan, Director -
Dallas, Texas USA
New News coming soon
5 - 9 June 2015
Indiana University Clarinet Workshop, VIP Howard Klug, DirectorJacobs School of Music
Bloomington, Indiana USA
New News coming soon
3 - 7 June 2015
Clarinetopia Participants
4th
row:
Hild Piersen, David Yandl, Nikhil
Bartolomeo, Catherine Hungerford,
Pin-Wei Yu, Rebecca Deller, Alyssa Kenney
3rd
row: Michelle
Myers, Nicole Marek, Andrew Mahonen, Genadi Zagor, Sangmi
Lim, Ian McEdwards, Charles Neidich
2nd
row: Ben Baldwin,
Emma Gregory, Patrick Hickey, Hakeem Davidson, Sam
Davies, Ayako Oshima
1st
row: Guy
Yehuda, Tasha Warren-Yehuda, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Wesley
Warnhoff, Diana Moisejenkaite,
Michael Webster
Not pictured: Leone Buyse, Lisa Szymenko,
Katelyn LaPrairie, David Brown, Susan
Hanline, Holly Kinsey, Yunhong
Chi, Edisher Savitsky
Clarinetopia Residency Seminar - Michigan State University - VIP's Dr Michael Webster and Dr Guy Yehuda, Directors
East Lansing, Michigan USA
Clarinet students from all
over the country attended the seventh annual Clarinetopia at Michigan State
University June 3-8, 2015.
With Michael Webster and Guy
Yehuda serving as co-directors, Clarinetopia offered its usual blend of faculty
and student recitals, master classes, and faculty presentations.
Other faculty members included
Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Tasha Warren-Yehuda, and
self professed “token flutist,” Leone Buyse.
The three faculty recitals all featured married couples: Michael and Leone; Guy
and Tasha; Charlie and Ayako.
Their repertoire ranged from the
traditional (Bassi, Poulenc, Martinu) through twentieth-century classics (Berg,
Carter) and newer works (Yoshimatsu, Miyoshi) to transcriptions (Fauré-Neidich
Violin Sonata, Debussy-Webster Petite Suite
and Bizet-Webster Children’s Games
for flute, clarinet, and piano).
Sangmi Lim of the MSU piano
faculty and Genadi Zagor, a DMA student in piano performance at MSU, supplied
expert collaboration for the faculty recitals as well as the master classes and
student recitals.
Another treat was a daytime recital by the VCP International Trio: Wesley
Warnhoff, clarinet; Diana Moisenjenkaite, violin; Edisher Savitsky, piano.
They reprised the 40-year history
of Verdehr
Trio commissions with a selection of eleven short pieces and individual
movements such as Jennifer Higdon’s Dash,
Sebastian Currier’s Verge,
Kevin Puts’s Nocturnes,
and Peter Sculthorpe’s From Nourlangie.
Elsa
supplied commentary in the form of videos of interactions between the Verdehr
Trio and other composers such as Gian Carlo Menotti and Robert Mann.
Elsa has officially retired from
playing, but she still participated by giving an insightful master class.
Wes Warnhoff, by the way, has
just been named Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Wisconsin,
so congratulations are in order.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday began with Michael leading a yoga and breathing
session, stressing how various yoga postures help the practitioner to isolate
muscle groups for deeper, more comfortable breathing.
Next on the agenda was a daily
warmup, led by respectively by Ayako, Guy, and Michael, each of whom offered
tips on starting the day with tonal, fingering, focusing, and mental exercises.
Charlie presented “Charlie’s
Choice,” which has become an annual favorite.
This year he covered subjects
ranging from finger technique being “serial” to finding high partials on
different areas of the reed to the genesis and text of the Nielsen Concerto.
Leone gave a class on Mozart
style for which two of the students
played the first and second movements of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
A flutist’s viewpoint proved to
be enlightening.
Each performing student received a minimum
of 45 minutes master class time, presenting mostly standard repertoire ranging
from Mozart, Weber, and Burgmüller to Poulenc, Bernstein, and Muczynski.
Two student recitals allowed each
performer to absorb and incorporate master class information on stage.
As in previous years, student
comments stressed how valuable it is to have different viewpoints from each
faculty member, shared in a knowledgeable and supportive manner.
Meanwhile, a new aspect was added this year at the MSU Community Music School on
Saturday, June 6, running simultaneously with Clarinetopia events.
Younger students and adult
amateurs spent the afternoon participating in a variety of events organized by
Tasha.
Students played alone and in a small clarinet
choir, practicing fundamental skills such as tone production, rhythm, finger and
tongue technique, and sight-reading.
Building upon this initial
success, Clarinetopia plans to expand Clarinet Day for 2016 and advertise it
more widely. Clarinetopia 2016 will take place with the same faculty returning
from June 1 to 5 at MSU with Clarinet Day on Saturday, June 4.
For
the most up-to-date information, visit clarinetopia.com.
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