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2 - February 2015
VIP Sabine
Grofmeier Duo Recital - Italian Consulate in Wolfsburg, Germany
2 - 7 February 2015
Concorso Europeo di
Clarinetto
3 February 2015
Penn State University Master Class with John Weigand - Professor at West
Virginia University at Morgantown
State College, Pennsylvania
3 February 2015
Kaufmann Center
New York City
Kaufman Music
Center's Special Music School invites you to attend a series of Musical Evenings
featuring intimate performances by world-renowned artists. These annual concerts
are truly exceptional evenings of music, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres in
beautiful private homes. Proceeds support music education for public school
children at Special
Music School.
TUE • FEB
3, 2015 - 6:30 PM
Featuring VIP Anthony McGill, clarinet
"Mr. McGill played with rhythmic brio and impeccable
clarity. Yet even in passages that seem jocular on the surface, he brought out
the hints of poignancy and resignation that run through the music."
- The New York Times
All events are 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Cocktail receptions at 6:30 pm
Concerts begin promptly at 7:30 pm
Seating is limited, so reserve your tickets now!
To inquire about ticket availability and prices
please call 212 501 3350 or email
smarkowitz@kaufmanmusiccenter.org.
An integral part of Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School
is the first and only school of its kind in the United States: a
public school with a combined academic and pre-conservatory
level music curriculum beginning in kindergarten. At Special
Music School, a child with a demonstrated musical gift has the
opportunity to receive the highest level of training possible to
develop a musical career.
The school is a public-private partnership between
Kaufman Music Center and the New York City Department of
Education. The Center, which is dedicated to excellence in music
education and performance, houses the school and funds the
entire music program - the private lessons, classes and
ensembles - from grants and contributions.
4 February 2015 - 4 - 6 PM
VIP J
Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinetist in the
Chicago Symphony - Master Class at the Buffet-Crampon New York
Showroom
5 - 6 February 2015
Ankara, Turkey
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6 February Deadline 2015
The United States
Army Orchestra Young Artist Competition
Fort Myer, Virginia
Online
International Competition with Oscar Navarro
- Information available from Website
7 February 2015 - 8 PM
Festival Chamber Music Concert Series
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
New York City
Festival Chamber Music, now in its 23rd season, presents the
third concert of its 2014-2015 five-concert series. The musicians speak
informally about the music and the composers before each piece on the
program.
Program
- BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in F
Major, Op. 5, No. 1
- PAUL
SCHOENFIELD Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
- ZEMLINSKY Piano Trio in D
Minor, Op. 3
8 February 2015
Rome, Italy
8 February 2015
Texas A & M
University- Kingsville Clarinet Day -
Kellie Lignitz-Hahn,
Director
Texas
A&M University-Kingsville is hosting its first TAMUK Clarinet Day on
Sunday, February 8th, 10:00am
to 6:00pm
This is
a free event and open to the public.
Our featured
guest artist is Vanguel Tangarov, who will be
presenting the
final concert and giving a master class to both
college and
high school students. Come and enjoy a day of
clinics, master
classes, performances, and exhibitions! A repair
clinic by
Heather Karlsson for band directors and college music
educators
offers invaluable instrument repair tips. Other
clinicians
include Thomas Kmiecik,
a Reserve Method Clinician
for D'Addario & Company, who will
perform and present a clinic
geared towards all clarinetists.
Additional guest artists include
Jonathan Guist, Ronald
Scott, Julie Linder, and Kellie
Lignitz-Hahn.
Don't
forget to join in and perform in our Community Clarinet Choir. Students of all
levels and on all instruments in the clarinet family are invited to play. Music
will be sent on request. Don't miss this great opportunity to sit side-by-side
with our very own TAMUK Clarinet Choir members and join us for an exciting day
performing fun clarinet choir pieces.
Exhibitions will include booths by Selmer, Buffet, D'Addario & Company, and
various local music stores. Come and test out new clarinet equipment and
accessories you can't find anywhere else!
Schedule:
10:00am Registration (free) and Exhibitions (open all day)
10:30
Clarinet Clinic and Community Clarinet Choir Rehearsal
11:30
Instrument Repair Workshop
12:30
Lunch
1:30 TAMUK
Clarinet Choir Performance followed by the Community Clarinet Choir
2:30
Master Class with guest artist Vanguel Tangarov
4:00
Potpourri Concert
5:00 Final
Concert presented by Vanguel Tangarov
8 February 2015
VIP Sabine Meyer
performs with Quator Modigliani
Paris, France
8 February 2015
Velizi Clarinet Competition - France
9 February 2015
VIP and Solo Clarinetist in the
New York Philharmonic
Anthony McGill appears at Ocean County College Clarinet Day
Toms River, New Jersey
On Monday, February 9, 2015, at 8:00 p.m., the Grunin Spotlight Series will
feature Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill on the Main Stage, Grunin Center,
Building #12, Ocean County College, Main Campus, College Drive, Toms River, NJ.
For easy access, please use Parking Lot #2. Tickets are on sale now.
Named principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, effective September 15,
2014, Anthony McGill became the Philharmonic’s first African-American principal
player, and he has been recognized as one of the classical music world’s finest
solo, chamber, and orchestral musicians.
McGill served as principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for the
past decade and has also appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the
American Symphony Orchestra and the New York String Orchestra, both at Carnegie
Hall; the Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Memphis
Symphony, Orchestra 2001, and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, McGill has performed throughout the United States,
Europe, and Asia with such quartets as the Guarneri, Tokyo, Brentano, Pacifica,
Shanghai, Miro, and Daedalus, with Musicians from Marlboro and Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, and on such series as the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society and the University of Chicago Presents. Festival appearances
include Tanglewood, Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Music@Menlo, Santa Fe, and Seattle
chamber music, to name a few.
McGill has collaborated with Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori,
Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang. On January 20, 2009, he performed with
Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President
Barack Obama.
He has
appeared on “Performance Today,” “MPR’s St. Paul Sunday Morning,” and “Mr.
Roger’s Neighborhood.” In 2013, with his brother Demarre, he appeared on
“NBC Nightly News,” “The Steve Harvey Show,” and on MSNBC with Melissa
Harris-Perry.
In
demand as a teacher, McGill serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Bard College Conservatory of
Music, and Manhattan School of Music. He has also given master classes
throughout the United States, Europe, and South Africa.
Anthony
McGill: Monday, February 9, 2015, 8:00 p.m., Main Stage.
Tickets: $30
single / *$20 Grunin Series.
+Meet & Greet:
Black Box Theatre, following concert – $10 single / *Free
Grunin Series.
[+ Master
Class: Main Stage, 2:00 p.m. – $10 single / Free for students.]
9 February 2015
Northeastern State University Oklahoma Woodwind Day
Talequala, Oklahoma
Please join us for the 2015 NSU Woodwind Day
Monday, February 9, 2105
NSU Center
for Performing Arts
All events will take place in the NSU Fine Arts Building, 605 N Grand Ave
12:30 Registration, CPA lobby
1:00 Welcome Recital
2:00 Master classes with Guest Artists
3:30 Group Choirs *Bring Your Instruments*
5:00 Feature Guest Artist Recital
Registration fee is $20.00, which includes admission to all the events.
Registration is payable by cash or check on the day of the event, however we
encourage you to pre-register.
Register for the 2015 NSU Woodwind Day
For questions or more
information, contact,
Dr. Patricia Surman,
Dr. Anne Watson,
or
Dr. Tommy Poole.
11 February 2015
Paris, France
12 February 2015
VIP
Anthony McGill Master Class and Concert at Hunter in String Theory
Concert Series
Chattanooga, Tennessee
String Theory, in partnership with Lee University and the Hunter Museum of
American Art, will continue its sixth season with a concert featuring
Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Gloria Chien, piano, on Thursday, Feb. 12, at
6:30 p.m.
String Theory was founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Chien and brings
acclaimed chamber musicians from around the world to perform in the intimate
setting of the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga.
Mr. McGill and Dr. Chien will perform Debussy’s
“Premiere Rhapsodie,” selected preludes by Scriabin, Schumann’s “Romances
Op. 94,” Berg’s “Four Pieces Op. 5,” and Weber’s “Grand Duo Concertant Op.
48.”
Prior to the concert will be an Art Connections event, which gives String
Theory attendees the opportunity to visit the Hunter galleries at 5:30 p.m.
to hear former Hunter Chief Curator Ellen Simak and Maestro Robert Bernhardt
discussing works from the Hunter collection that relate to the music
featured in the evening's concert.
A master class with Mr. McGill will take place that day at 1 p.m. at the
Hunter, and the public is welcomed to attend.
Recently named principal clarinet of the New York
Philharmonic, Mr. McGill also served as principal clarinet of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for the past decade. He has been recognized as
one of the classical music world’s finest solo, chamber and orchestral
musicians. He has appeared as soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York String Orchestra, all at
Carnegie Hall. Other recent performances have been with the Baltimore
Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Memphis Symphony,
Orchestra 2001 and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. McGill is a recipient of the Avery Fisher
Career Grant and the first Sphinx Medal of Excellence. He serves on the
faculty of the Juilliard School, the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins
University, Bard College Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of
Music, and has given master classes throughout the United States, Europe and
South Africa. In 2009, Mr. McGill performed with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma
and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He has
appeared on Performance Today, MPR’s St. Paul Sunday Morning and Mr. Roger’s
Neighborhood. In 2013, he appeared on NBC Nightly News, the Steve Harvey
Show and on MSNBC with Melissa Harris-Perry.
Dr. Chien, who began playing piano at the age of five in her native Taiwan,
has been called “a coat-of-many-colors pianist.” She holds a doctor of
musical arts, a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston. She is a Steinway Artist.
A prize winner of the World Piano Competition, Harvard Musical Association
Award, and the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Chien has
presented solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard
Musical Association, Sanibel Musical Festival, Caramoor Musical Festival,
Salle Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has been
praised by “The Strad” for “super performances…accompanied with great
character.”
Dr. Chien was appointed the director of the Chamber Music Institute at
Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay
Area, and has participated there for six years. She has been a member of the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012, and now frequently plays
at Alice Tully Hall in New York as well as other venues around the country
with CMS on Tour.
Individual concert tickets are $25 for Hunter
members, $35 for non-members, $10 for students with a valid student ID and
$25 for groups of 20 or more people.
For more information
on String Theory at the Hunter or to purchase tickets, call 267-0968 or
visit
www.stringtheorymusic.org.
13 February 2015
Berliner Philharmoniker Octet Performs at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall - VIP's
Wenzel Fuchs and Stefan
Dohr performing
London, United Kingdom
Program:
Carl Nielsen: Serenata in vano
for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello & double bass
Franz Berwald: Septet in B flat
Franz Schubert: Octet Op 166
Hear musicians from the world-famous Berliner
Philharmoniker perform in an intimate chamber setting.
The concert opens with two rare
treats - Carl Nielsen's Serenata, a mellow
work
full of warm melodies, followed with Franz Berwald's Septet. Written in 1828, it
combines elements of Mozart's tunefulness with a more dramatic tone befitting of
its period.
The second half is filled with
Schubert's grand Octet. The largest chamber work by the composer - in
scope
and length - it draws on Schubert's innate ability as a songwriter, using his
own lieder 'Der Wanderer' and his Singspiel Die Freunde von Salamanka for
melodic inspiration.
'Their famously luxuriant,
powerful sound comes from the combination of blend and individual virtuosity.'
(Neil Fisher in The Times)
'this is an orchestra of soloists, in both musical
excellence and attitude: self-governing, self-selecting... they describe
themselves as an "Orchestral Federation"
13 February 2015
Brahms Transcription Recital at Diers Recital Hall at
State University of New York at Fredonia
Come hear members of the some of the
greatest chamber music ever written by Brahms. Both Opus 120 Clarinet Sonatas,
and the Opus 114 Clarinet Trio.
14 - 15 February 2015
14 - 16 February 2015
16 - 20 February 2015
Master Classes with VIP Marco Antonio Mazzini
Lima, Peru
17 February 2015
Senior VIP Donald
Montanaro - Associate and Eb Clarinetist in the
Philadelphia Orchestra
and Professor at the
Curtis Institute Emeritus - Master Class at Texas Christian
University
Fort Worth, Texas
17 - 19 February 2015
Master Classes with VIP
Sabine Meyer
18 February 2015
Buffet-Crampon New York Showroom
18 - 20 February 2015
Rome, Italy
20 February 2015
Ghent, Belgium
20 February 2015
21 February 2015
21 February 2015
Björn Nymanin
mestarikurssi klarinetisteille
Perjantai, helmikuu 20, 2015 -
10:00
-
20:30
Mestarikurssi
Vapaa pääsy
Harri Mäen organisoima Björn Nymanin
mestarikurssi (Erasmus-vaihto
"Being one of the leading
clarinetists
of his generation in the Nordic region, Björn Nyman is a
sough-after chamber musician and
soloist.
He is a winner of numerous prestigious
prizes,
and has performed as soloist with orchestras like the Munich
Chamber Orchestra, Bayeriche Rundfunk, Odense Symphony
Orchestra. He is regularly performing on
main
chamber
music
festivals and holds the
position
as Principal Clarinet in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and in
the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra."
Opetus perjantai 20.2.
- 10–13.30 Wegelius-sali (Töölönkatu
28)
- 14-20.30 Nervanderinkatu
(Nervanderinkatu 13)
- 14–16.00 Opetustila N-416
- 16.30–20.30 Opetustila N-515
Opetus jatkuu lauantaina 21.2.2015
Lisätiedot:
Harri Mäki
harri.maki (at) uniarts.fi
21 - 22 February 2015
Reggiola, Italy
21 February 2015
Clarinets for Conservation Treasure Coast Clarinet Day
Jensen Beach, Florida
21 - 22 February 2015
Hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and In Association
with the UAB Clarinet Symposium
Birmingham, Alabama
Join us on February 21-22, 2015 for the
International Clarinet Association Southeastern Regional Clarinet Festival
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in conjunction with the UAB
Clarinet Symposium. Special guest artists include VIP
Jessica Phillips Rieske, acting principal of
the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Jessica appears courtesy of
Backun Musical Services),
and Morrie Backun, of Backun Musical Services, along with a host of
performances and lectures by clarinetists from around the region and the
country. The event is open to clarinetists from 6th grade on, and there will
be events designed for professional, amateur, and young players, including
the Festival Clarinet Choir (conducted by Mitchell Estri...n,
University of Florida) for high school and adult players, and the Blazer
Clarinet Choir (conducted by
London Silas Shavers,
Northwest Mississippi State Community College), for middle school students.
Vendors will include Backun Musical Services, Rodriguez Musical Services,
Art's Music Shop, among others.
For more information, check our website (updates coming!):
http://southeasternclarinets.blogspot.com/
Clarinetists of all ages and abilities are invited to gather
for the International Clarinet Association South-Eastern Festival,
in conjunction with the UAB Clarinet Symposium.
This will be an exciting and inspirational
weekend of workshops, master classes, clarinet choir, recitals and
clinics by some of the nation's finest clarinetists.
For more information, please contact Dr. Denise Gainey,
clarinet@uab.edu, (205) 975-0558
To propose a solo or ensemble
performance or clinic, please contact Denise Gainey, clarinet@uab.edu.
Proposal deadline is December 5, 2014. Soloists, chamber/ensemble
performers, lecturers and clinicians must be ICA members.
24 February 2015 - 7 PM
Vienna Clarinet Connection & Karl Menrad (east)
Finds, music + word Gypsy / Balkan / Klezmer specialties
Sargfabrik
Goldschlagstraße 169
1140 Vienna, Austria
The "Czernowitz sketches" by Alexander
Kukelka in connection with texts and scenes of Bukovina seal.
For their 20th anniversary, we invite
Austria's top clarinet quartet to a very special evening.
Together, created with the
actor Karl Menrad the Vienna Clarinet
Connection
a musical-literary evening. Concerts showcased Alexander Kukelkas "Czernowitz
sketches", a clarinet quartet in twelve sets. Connect the pieces with texts of
Bukovina seal.
About one and a half
centuries - until 1918 - was the Bukovina and its capital Czernowitz not only
interface between Orient and Occident, but offered German, Jewish, Polish,
Romanian and Ruthenian cultures a habitat in Europe has no equal sought.
Czernowitz was colorful, a
multi-ethnic mosaic, a city with a great historical luminosity, so that her
story has remained as a "myth Chernivtsi" stick in the collective memory. But
despite all the unifying opposites was in Czernowitz, in this "multicultural
melting pot" at the eastern edge of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, the love
of the German language. Finally, there were two world wars - vorranig the Second
World War -. The destroyed this diversity and expelled the ethnic groups and
have scattered to the winds
The "Czernowitz sketches"
let all the past
again
rise, both in
the form
of various literature (poetry, short stories, etc.) as well as through music.
Like a kaleidoscope, open spaces of sound that can rise from today's
Ukrainian-Romanian Bukovina in the mind's eye of the listener people, stories
and landscapes in their plasticity.
The word does not come off
when actor Karl Menrad (folk theater, playhouse) raise its voice and
texts
by Alfred Gong,
Gregory
of Rezzori,
Rose
foreigners, Paul Celan and many more reads and recites the written word in the
silence of the room.
Vienna Clarinet Connection
Helmut Hödl - clarinet, Rupert Fankhauser - clarinet, Hubert Salmhofer -
basset horn, Wolfgang grain Berger - Bass Clarinet
Karl Menrad
- voice, reciting Alexander Kukelka - Composition, text selection, musical and
scenic rehearsals
24 - 28 February 2015
26 February 2015
26 February - 1 March 2015
27 February - 1 March 2015
28 February 2015 - Deadline for Application to the Yamaha Young
Performing Artists Competition
The
Yamaha Young Performing Artists Program (YYPA) was designed in 1988 to recognize
outstanding young musicians from the world of classical, jazz and contemporary
music. Applicants between the ages of 18 and 22 undergo a rigorous, taped
audition process for a panel of internationally acclaimed musicians. Winners are
invited to attend an all-expense paid weekend as part of the Music for All™
Summer Symposium, and receive an incredible performance opportunity with a
weekend of personal and professional growth.
The 2015 YYPA Application can be found at
http://4wrd.it/YYPA15_APPLY. To connect with us
on social media and share our posts, please find us here:
http://4wrd.it/YYPAFB_2015. More information,
including the Official Rules, can be found on our website:
http://4wrd.it/YYPA_2015.
28 February 2015
Texas Clarinet Colloquium Clarinet Day at Texas A & M University - VIP
Mary Alice Druhan,
Director
Commerce, Texas
28 February 2015
Gettysburg Clarinet Day at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music - Aaron
Scott, Director
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Calling All Clarinetists!
It is my pleasure to invite you to the
Gettysburg Clarinet Day 2015 on the beautiful campus of
Gettysburg College. This event will take place on Saturday, February 28, 2015
at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music in Schmucker Memorial Hall, Gettysburg
College.
Recitals and Masterclasses will be conducted by Eugene Mondie, Assistant
Principal and E-flat Clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra and The United
States Army Clarinet Quintet, “Pershing’s Own.” Events will begin at 9:00 am
and end at 4 pm, a detailed schedule is available at
http://www.gettysburg.edu/clarinetday.
Pre-registration fee is $20 per person. This includes lunch at Gettysburg
College Dining Center, event materials and necessary equipment. The
registration form is included in the attachment to be mailed or you can register
online. Please visit the website for more details regarding online registration
and more information at
www.gettysburg.edu/clarinetday.
Please forward this email and/or
distribute the provided PDF attachment to any interested
clarinetist from your groups and studios.
All participants should bring their clarinets to try
equipment and instruments at the Professional Wind
Instruments of New Jersey and Vandoren tables, as well
as to play in the
Clarinet Ensemble Reading Session
at 9 am. (All auxiliary instruments
welcome.)
Other Masterclasses for the day
include:
Instrument
Selection Master Class
Professional Wind Instrument Consultants of NJ
28 February 2015
Spectrum
New York City
An incredible woodwind line-up marks
February's installment of
The Brothers Balliett's
Spectrum
series.
Legendary clarinetist
Charles Neidich,
famous for his role in creating new works for the
clarinet by composers like Milton Babbitt, Elliot Carter
and Helmut Lachenmann, presents a solo set featuring
works by Isang Yun alongside his own compositions. He is
joined by Mariko Furukawa.
Legend-in-the-making
Ryan Muncy
is joined by colleagues from
International Contemporary
Ensemble (ICE)
to present new works for saxophone, and will premiere
the new collaborative Balliett concerto for baritone
saxophone and flutes.
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