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December 2009 Monthly Summary
Special Celebration Concert honoring
the 90th Birthday of Legend Clarinetist and Teacher Kalmen Opperman held 1 December, 2009 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
Hall in New York
Selmer Clarinet Day at Steinway Hall in
New York - 8 December 2009
Master Classes with Antonio
Fraioli and Concertino im Stile Jazz for Klarinette and String Orchestra,
Soloist Ulrich Mehlhart (Solo Klarinettist in Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestra) - 9 - 13 December 2009 in Eisenstadt, Austria and Bad Nauheim,
Germany
Vandoren Holiday Celebration in New
York - 14 December 2009
November 2009
Monthly Summary
Members of the New York Philharmonic Winds
Chamber Concert at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania 1 November 2009
5th
Vandoren/Buffet Clarinet Ensemble Festival
- Mitchell Estrin, Artistic Director, held 7-8 October 2009 in conjunction with
The United States Air Force Band at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC
Master Class and
Performance Residency with Richard
Nunemaker (Houston Symphony Bass Clarinetist Emeritus) at Texas Tech
University 8 - 11 November 2009
Master Classes with
Italian Virtuoso Sergio Bosi (“Il
clarinetto all’italiana”)
at the Vienna University of Music held 9 - 11 November 2009
Master Class Day and
Concert with Caroline Hartig
(Professor at Michigan State University) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick,
New Jersey; Maureen Hurd, Host and Director held 14 November 2009
Larry Combs, Solo Clarinetist Emeritus in the Chicago Symphony, Honorably
inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in Charleston, West Virginia
21 November 2009
Rutgers University Woodwind Day - 22 November 2009 - Dr Maureen Hurd, Director
Master class by
Eva Wasserman – Margolis, held in Domžale, Slovenia - 27 - 29 November 2009
October 2009
Monthly Summary
Michigan State University Clarinet
Spectacular with Stanley Drucker - 10 October 2009
USAF Band of Liberty Clarinet Day with Robert
Spring (Professor at Arizona State University) held at Hanscom Air Force Base -
17 October 2009
Boston Conservatory 3rd Clarinet Day - 18 October 2009 - Michael
Norsworthy, Director
American Chamber Ensemble
Concertante of Clarinets Concert 18 October 2009 in Riverhead, Long Island New
York, with Stanley Drucker, Naomi Drucker Director
5th Saverio Mercadante International Clarinete
Competition held 15 - 21 October 2009 in Bari, Italy, Antonio Tinelli,
Artistic Director - Karl Leister, Jury President
Concert was sponsored by The
Foundation for Modern Music and was a tribute to Richard Nunemaker's career as
an advocate for new music and his history as a commissioning performer/recording
artist. Three of the works on the concert were commissioned by or for Mr
Nunemaker. Performance held at Rice University in Houston, Texas
September 2009
Monthly Summary
First performance
in modern times of the TERZETTO for flute, oboe ,clarinet and orchestra of the
Italian composer of the second half of 19th century Polibio Fumagalli .Flute:
Flavio Alziati, Oboe : Luca Avanzi, Clarinet : Luigi Magistrelli
"Great Romantic Orchestra", with no conductor !
Concertmeister Enrico Groppo
Big Hall of the Milan Conservatory
September 25, 2009
August 2009
Monthly Summary
3rd Buffet-Crampon Clarinet
Academy held at the University of Northern Florida in Jacksonville, Florida 3 -
8 August, 2009 - Francois Kloc, Mitchell Estrin, Matt Vance, Mary
Marshall, and Bruce Silva, Directors
ClarinetFest 2009 - Porto,
Portugal, in collaboration with The
International Clarinet Association (ICA) - held 10 - 14 August
1st International
Clarinet Competition Freiburg i. br
- Germany -
24. - 28. August 2009
July 2009
Monthly Summary
The United
States Army Band (Pershing's Own) 6th Alumni Concert and Reunion Weekend,
held at Fort Myer near Washington, DC 17 July 2009
Ted Lane, Solo Clarinetist in the
American Sinfonietta and WKA Artist VIP named as Solo Clarinetist in the Equador
Symphony effective July 2009
1st Prize:
Olli Leppäniemi, Finland
2nd Prize:
Christelle Pochet, France
3rd Prize:
Daniel Ottensamer, Austria
4th Prize:
Balazs Rumy, Hungary
June 2009
- Monthly Summary
Final Concerto Performance of Stanley Drucker with the New York Philharmonic June 4, 5, 6, and 9
June 2009 performing the Copland Clarinet Concerto
with Lorin Maazel conducting
Buffet Crampon New York City Grand
Opening and Festivities held 5 June 2009
4th Carl Nielsen International
Clarinet Competition - Odense, Holland - 30
May - 8 June 2009
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Beijing Clarinet Competition winners
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May 2009 -
Monthly Summary
World Premieres of Long Island
Composers with them present with the American Chamber Ensemble, Naomi Drucker
and Blanche Abrams, Directors, performed at the Park Avenue United Methodist
Church in New York 3 May, 2009
Beijing International Clarinet Competition - China,
held through 7 May, 2009
Larry Combs West Virginia
Orchestra Tour and Master Class in Charleston
Cornucopia Artist Faculty Steve
Cohen, Marjorie Shearer, Rich Moore, Ramses Bugarin, and Director Gregory
Barrett and Klezmer Dance performance with Clarinet Choir
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Dr Caroline Hartig
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Mr Vardi
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Jennifer MaClay, Ocala Symphony
Competition Winner and with Teacher Mitchell Estrin, and Caroline Hartig and Mr
Varda at the University of Akron Clarinet Day
Mensi Clarinet Competition group
and Artist Jury, and Rasaay Scotland Bass Clarinet Course, Sarah Watts, Director
Ohio University Clarinet Gala and
Michele Gingras and Director Rebecca Rischen
Milano Conservatory Chamber
Ensemble Performance of Unknown Italian composers
Alessandro Carbonare as soloist
and in Master Classes and Nicolas Fargeix, performs the Weber Concerto #1, Op
73, and Przemyslaw Polak and Adam Eljasinski perform the II Convegno
by Ponchielli conducted by Jan Jacub Bokun
Master classes of SHARON KAM ,
held at the Milano Conservatory, Italy
April 2009
- Monthly Summary
Larry Combs Reunion Tour and Master
Classes with West Virginia Symphony - 2 - 5 April 2009 - Charleston, West
Virginia
RAASAY SOLO BASS CLARINET COURSE
- The Isle of Raasay, Scotland, UK became home to a Solo Bass Clarinet course
from 31st March – 4th April 2009,
Sarah Watts, Director
Clarinet Cornucopia - DeKalb
University - 4 April 2009 - Dr Gregory Barrett, Director
Ocala Symphony Orchestra 18th Annual Young Artist
Competition held 24 January 2009 - Conductor Dr James Plondke, and Jennifer
Suzanne MacClay, Freshman at the University of Florida with Winner's Performance
4 - 5 April performing Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 2, Op 74
“Fabio Mensi” International Clarinet Competition in Breno (Italy) held April 7-8 -9 2009
University of Akron Clarinet Day
- Kris Belisle, Director - 18 April, 2009
Ohio University Clarinet Gala -
Dr Rebecca Rischen, Director - 19 April, 2009
Concert
which took place at SALA PUCCINI, Milan Conservatory April 22 2009
for the anniversary (200 years) of the foundation of the Milano Conservatory
Clarimania 2009 Festival in
Wrocklaw, Poland at the Karola Lipinskiego Conservatory 23 - 25 April 2009 with
Alessandro Carbonare and other major Players, including Guy Dangain from Paris,
Nicolas Fargeix, and Directed by Jan Jacub Bokun
Master classes of SHARON KAM ,
held at the Milano Conservatory, April 28 - 30 2009 - Luigi Magistrelli,
Director
ClariFest Student
participants, John Masserini (Professor at Northern Arizona University), and
David McClune, Dr Diane Barger, Director, and Dr Masserini
March 2009
- Monthly Summary
3rd Northeast Texas A & M University Clarinet Day - 7 March 2009
- Mary Druhan, Director
Midwest ClariFest - University of Nebraska - 27 March 2009
- Diane Barger, Director
2nd Troy
State University (Alabama) Clarinet Day - 28 March 2009 - Timothy
Phillips, Director
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Katy Ayling - Buffet 2009 London Competition Winner
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Soloist Derek Bernal with
American Composer's Orchestra, and Kansas Clarinet Day with Frank Kowalsky, Fred
Ormand, and Director Stephanie Zelnick
Dr David Etheridge and Richard
MacDowell in Performance and Director Gregory Oaks and MacDowell and Etheridge
February 2009
- Monthly Summary
University of Portland (Oregon) Clarinet Symposium - 4 February 2009
- Igor Shakhman,
Director
2nd Towson
State University Maryland Clarinet Seminar - 8 February 2009, Dr Marguerite
Levin, Director
Katy Ayling, winner of the
Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize 2009
- Royal Academy of Music, London held 13 February 2009
Fang Man: Resurrection - Clarinet Concerto (World
Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission) performed by Soloist Derek Bermel and the
American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York 20
February, 2009
University of Kansas Clarinet Master
Classes
with Frank Kowalsky from Florida State University - Stephanie Zelnick, Director,
held 26 February, 2009
Iowa State University Big 12
Clarinet Day - Gregory Oakes, Director, with Guest Artists Dr David
Etheridge (University of Oklahoma) and Richard MacDowell (University of Texas in
Austin) 28 February, 2009
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Effortless Clarinet Studio Ensemble
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Anthony McGill
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Performance at Inauguration
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Bottesini Flute and Clarinet Performance in Milan Italy
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Jenny MaClay, Ochoa Symphony
(Florida) Solo Competition Winner
Clarinetist
Michael Norsworthy
Featured in Japan-USA Musical Perspectives Concerts with Four World Premieres in
New York on January 31
January 2009
- Monthy Summary
Effortless Clarinet Ensemble
Concert with World Premiere performed 4 January at St Thomas University in
Houston, Texas
Anthony McGill, Solo Clarinetist in the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, performs premiere a new Chamber work
along with Gabriela Montero, Pianist, Yo Yo Ma, Cellist, Iztek Perlman,
Violinist, written by John Williams for the Presidential
Inauguration of Barack Obama 20 January 2009
Ocala
Symphony Orchestra 18th Annual Young Artist Competition held 24 January 2009
with winners Violinist David Song, Conductor Dr James Plondke, and Jennifer
Suzanne MaClay, Freshman at the University of Florida
Performance of Pietro Bottesini, Adagio and Variations for
flute , C clarinet and strings with Valle Camonica Orchestra in Milano, Italy,
with Luigi
Magistrelli, C Clarinet and Elena Cecconi
Flute Soloists, Silvio
Maggioni, conductor, performed January 25 2009
Clarinetist
Michael Norsworthy
Featured in Japan-USA Musical Perspectives Concerts with Four World Premieres in
New York on January 31 and upcoming in Boston on February 7, 2009
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