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Single Reed Symposium

	Clarinetist Richie Hawley Richie Hawley is a versatile and critically acclaimed artist who ranks among the most distinguished clarinetists of his generation. As Principal Clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, he impressed audiences around the world with a wide-ranging talent that blended virtuosity and the velvety, sonorous tone that has become his trademark. The Cincinnati Enquirer has praised him for the â€œseamless flowing tone so many clarinetists long for and few can achieve.â€ Mr. Hawley was appointed Principal Clarinet of the CSO in 1994 at the age of 23. He has since enjoyed a rewarding and multifaceted career as an orchestral clarinetist, recitalist, chamber musician, teacher and clinician, making appearances throughout the United States and abroad. He participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in the summers of 1999 and 2000 and toured with the legendary â€œMusicians from Marlboroâ€ for the festivalâ€™s 50th anniversary. Mr. Hawley also performs and serves on the summer festival faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. As an educator, Mr. Hawley is highly sought after and has recently relocated to Houston to serve as the Professor of Clarinet at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He formerly held the position of Assistant Professor and head of the clarinet studio at UCâ€™s College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Originally from Los Angeles, Mr. Hawley began his clarinet studies with Yehuda Gilad. He made his orchestral solo debut at age 13 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and at age 14 he performed the New York Philharmonic. While a student of Donald Montanaro at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Hawley also soloed with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A Buffet-Crampon artist, Mr. Hawley performs on the Tosca model of clarinet. He is also a Rico Performing Artist and Clinician and plays exclusively on Reserve Classic reeds and the new Reserve Mouthpiece.
	Sean Osborn has traveled the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan as soloist and chamber musician, and traveled the world during his eleven years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has also appeared as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra. The New York Times dubbed him "...an excellent clarinetist," the Boston Globe called him "...a miracle," and Gramophone "...a master." Sean is also an award-winning composer whose chamber works have been played by members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Marlboro Music Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Juilliard School, among others.
	Professor of Clarinet at Seattle Pacific Universty, Mary Kantor received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Washington and graduated from the Academy of Music in Vienna with Honors in clarinet performance, class of Rudolf Jettel. She is currently principal clarinetist with the Bellevue Philharmonic and the Seattle Choral Company, a member of the Shalom Ensemble, and plays with the Temple B'nai Torah musicians for Friday night Shabbat services. As a soloist, she has performed the Mozart Concerto and Richard Strauss' Duet-Concertino with Philharmonia Northwest. She has also performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, as well as on numerous movie soundtracks. She also coaches both the Seattle Youth Symphony and Cascade Youth Symphony clarinet sections, and appears in Who's Who in America, 59th and 60th editions.
	Dash Point native Jennifer Nelson is currently Principal Clarinet with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Auburn Symphony Orchestras. She also has a very active freelance career, including playing Broadway-style shows at the Fifth Avenue and Paramount Theaters, occasional extra with the Seattle Symphony and Opera Orchestras, and recordings for various television and motion picture scores. She is also Lecturer in Clarinet at the University of Washington, and Affiliate Artist Faculty in Clarinet at the University of Puget Sound, in addition to having several students in her private studio in Seattle for many years. Ms. Nelson has also traveled throughout the United States with the national touring companies of Phantom of the Opera and New York City Opera. In addition to her stateside concerts, Jennifer's orchestral and recital performances have also taken her to Mexico, Japan, Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, Honduras, and most recently, India.
	Dr. Florie Rothenberg enjoys an active performing career, playing with several Seattle area concert and pit orchestras, including the Auburn Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Tacoma Opera. Florie has worked in film scoring in Seattle, and has her own CD, Voices of Trees, Modern Works by Women Composers for Clarinet and Piano, available on Origin Classical Records. Splitting her time between performing and teaching, Florie Rothenberg works with clarinetists of all ages and levels, drawing students from around the entire Puget Sound region, and is currently on faculty at Central Washington University, University of Puget Sound Community Music, and Music Works Northwest. Ms. Rothenberg earned a D.M.A. from the University of Arizona, a M.M. from the University of Michigan and a B.M. from the University of the Pacific. Her teachers include Jerry Kirkbride, David Shifrin and William Dominik.
	William Blayney is a Buffet Crampon Performing Artist. He has performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, 5th Avenue Theater and this year has been asked to play Principal Clarinet with the Seattle Philharmonic. Mr. Blayney is an authority on historical clarinet recordings and has given lectures and master classes at ICA conventions, the Eastman School of Music, University of Florida, and LSU in Louisiana. Mr. Blayney also conducts the Northwest Clarinet Choir, All City Clarinets, and the Greenwood Concert Band.
	Active in Seattle as a collaborative performer with singers and instrumentalists, Rhonda Kline's current passions include serving as music director/general manager for Northwest Opera In Schools, Etc. (NOISE, an opera education organization), and music director for Black Box Opera Theater (an ensemble company dedicated to performing new operatic and vocal works). She is opera coach and coordinator of accompanying at the University of Washington School of Music, and pianist/coach with Canta in Italia, a summer program for singers based in Florence, Italy. 2010 performances included a European tour with Metropolitan Opera soprano Joyce Guyer, a recital tour in New York with soprano (and UW alumnus) Kimberly Giordano, and a cabaret of songs by Sondheim, Newman and Weill with Black Box Opera Theater at Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle.

Sunday, October 14, 2012, 4 pm, Philharmonic Hall Berlin
Monday, October 15, 2012, 8 pm, Philharmonic Hall Essen, Alfried Krupp Saal

Gaetano Donizetti, Ouverture of Elisir d’amore
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto A major, KV 622
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E major

Wenzel Fuchs, the Innsbruck native, scion of a musical family, was already playing the clarinet as a child in various wind ensembles. After first studying in Kitzbühel and Innsbruck, he went to the Vienna Musikhochschule, where he had the opportunity of playing as a substitute with the Wiener Philharmoniker. He began his professional career as principal clarinettist of the Vienna Volksoper, then moving to the Austrian Radio (ORF) Symphony Orchestra and in 1993 to the Berliner Philharmoniker. Fuchs is active as a soloist and chamber player in, among other groups, the Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, Philharmonic Wind Soloists, Philharmonic Octet and the Philharmonic Friends of Vienna-Berlin. He also teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy, holds a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« Berlin, a visiting professorship at Sakuyou Music University in Okayama, Japan and an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and he gives master classes all over the world.

The World Doctors Orchestra was founded in 2007 and combines the pleasure of fine music with global medical responsibility. Twice a year, some 100 physicians from all over the world exchange their white coats for evening attire and perform a benefit concert for medical aid projects. While our daily work focuses on healing one patient at a time, as an orchestra we promote the conviction that neither national borders nor political or economic interests should limit access to basic healthcare.

We invite medical doctors to share our vision by participating in the sessions. The rehearsals include coaching by professional musicians, proficiency in classical instrument and orchestra experience are required. The World Doctors Orchestra is an independent non-profit organization driven by the spirit and dedication of the players.

Founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra is Stefan Willich, Professor in Medicine at the Charité University Medical Center in Berlin, the largest medical school in Europe. He is also an experienced musician and studied conducting and violin in Stuttgart, Berlin, Boston/Tanglewood, and Paris.

The World Doctors Orchestra is a registered non-profit association and has tax exempt status in Germany (District Court Berlin-Charlottenburg, VR 27873 B) and in the U.S. (World Doctors Orchestra, Inc.). The World Doctors Orchestra is a member of the Bundesverband Deutscher Liebhaberorchester e.V.

Advisory Board
Martin Hoffmann, General Manager Berliner Philharmoniker
Pamela Rosenberg, Dean, The American Academy in Berlin
Dr. Günther Jonitz, President of the Berlin Medical Association

International Orchestra Committee
Dr. Jonathan Lass, Cleveland, OH, USA
Dr. Philip Dodd, Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Tobias Breyer, Essen, Germany
Dr. Wibke Voigt, Dortmund, Germany
Dr. Ching-Hong Kao, Taipei, Taiwan

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio as part of USA Introductory Master Class and Recital Tour

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 MASTER CLASS with STEVE COHEN

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The clarinet studio at NEIU welcomes Northwestern University Clarinet Professor, Steve Cohen. Professor Cohen will critique NEIU clarinet students on the following repertoire:

Concerto no. 3, mov. 1 – Stamitz
Solo de Concours – Messager
Concerto no. 2, mov. 3 – Weber
Concerto no. 3, mov. 1 – Crussell

Where: Salme Harju Steinberg Recital Hall
When: Thursday, November 15th, 2012 4:30PM

Performers: Caroline Chen, Miguel Hernandez, Elizabeth Kostencki, Konrad Pawelek. Accompanied on piano by Dr. Kay Kim, piano

17 November 2012

White Plains, New York

24 - 25 November 2012

Amiens, France

Greetings and Competition details in French

Bonjour à tous,

C’est avec plaisir que nous vous communiquons dès à présent les dates de nos prochains évènements

autour de la clarinette.

- Samedi 24 Novembre 2012 RENCONTRES REGIONALES D’ENSEMBLES DE CLARINETTES

AMIENS Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional Auditorium Henri Dutilleux

avec la participation exceptionnelle de Jérôme VOISIN, super soliste de l’Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France – lauréat de concours internationaux

et de Nicolas DESSENNE, pianiste accompagnateur au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris.

Au programme : Rencontres d’Ensembles – Débat avec Jérôme VOISIN – Démonstration RICO – Récital Jérôme VOISIN et Nicolas DESSENNE – Conférence sur le thème de l’Initiation

des jeunes enfants au moyen du chalumeau par Thierry WARTELLE

- Dimanche 25 Novembre 2012 CONCOURS NATIONAL DE CLARINETTE 11ème Edition

AMIENS Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional Auditorium Henri Dutilleux et Salle Ferras Barbizet

Du cycle I au Cycle Excellence.

Nombreux prix et récompenses.

Une épreuve éliminatoire pour le Cycle Excellence aura lieu le Samedi 10 Novembre 2012 (salle à déterminer).

15 candidats seront retenus pour la finale.

Egalement une répétition piano pour les cycles I – II & III est prévue le Samedi 17 Novembre 2012

à l’Ecole de Musique de Compiègne (voir dépliant)

Possibilité d’hébergement en Auberge de Jeunesse.

En pièce jointe le dépliant contenant le programme, le bulletin d’inscription et le règlement du concours.

23 November 2012

25 November 2012

The 2012 Clarinet & Saxophone Society Single Reed Day will be held at Haileybury College, Hertford Heath, Hertford, SG13 7NU.

Purchase tickets now!

Non-stop Playing
Join the single reed choir on arrival and continue playing throughout the day in saxophone choirs, clarinet choirs, workshops, workshops and mini master classes.

Trade Exhibition
Take time out to visit the manufacturers’ and retailers’ stands. Try out their range of mouthpieces, instruments and accessories. Browse the music in the publishers’ cooperative. Traders will give demonstrations and presentations throughout the day on all sorts of topics from mouthpieces and reeds to instruments, pads and maintenance.

Discount for Clarinet & Saxophone Society members
Parking is easy and on site. Two-course lunch and refreshments included in the ticket price.
Free entry for every teacher with three or more school age pupils.

Visit the Publishers’ Co-operative run by Jonathan Myall Music
Browse 1000s of titles from many publishers music for clarinet, saxophone and ensembles of many and various descriptions
Review new editions
Look for special deals of the day

· James Rae will be directing single reed and clarinet choirs
· Andy Scott will be directing single reed and saxophone choirs and running a session on improvisation
· Sarah Markham will be directing a saxophone choir and giving mini masterclasses
· Paolo De Gaspari will be directing single reed and clarinet choirs and running a mini masterclass session
· David Campbell with be directing a clarinet choir and welcoming delegates in his final term as Chairman of the Clarinet & Saxophone Society
· Instrument repairers Eddie Ashton and David Fingerhut will be on site all day.

26 November 2012

Rochester, New York

28 November 2012

Berlin, Germany

29 November - 2 December 2012

30 November - 2 December 2012

Madrid, Spain - Cristo Barrios Master Class

30 November 2012

New York City

Washington Square Chamber Music Festival Series - St Joseph's Catholic Church with Stanley Drucker performing Bartok Contrasts and Brahms Trio Op 114

“B/B/B: Beethoven, Bartók and Brahms” is a free concert performed by Washington Square Music Festival's Chamber Artists Ensemble, which includes clarinetist Stanley Drucker, pianist David Oei, violinist Eriko Sato, violist Veronica Salas and cellist Lutz Rath. Selections include Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 and Béla Bartók’s “Contrasts”. There will also be a performance of Brahms’ Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 114. — which, along with the Bartók selection, will highlight the talents of Stanley Drucker. If you miss this performance, as mentioned in a previous posting on THE Clarinet Blog, you can find a recording of Stanley Drucker playing the piece when he first started as the principle clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic. Also, you can find a CD Stanley Drucker Plays Brahms at Amazon. If you do get to see this performance, you will get to witness the powerful playing and enthusiasm that Stanley Drucker brings to all his performances.

Free. Fri., Nov. 30, 8pm. At St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church (371 Sixth Ave., at Washington Place). For info, visit washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org or call 212-252-3621.

Fantasia on "Rigoletto"	Luigi Bassi	Sean Osborn and Rhonda Kline
Concerto (first movement)	Jean Francaix	Sean Osborn and Rhonda Kline
Sur la Memoire	Stella Sung	Mary Kantor and Kevin Johnson
Abyss of the Birds	Olivier Messiaen	Richie Hawley
Klezmer Triptych	Mike Curtis	Sean Osborn, Jennifer Nelson, Mary Kantor, and TBA
TBA	TBA	Clarinet Choir - William Blayney, conductor

Soliloquies	Leslie Basset
Premier Rhapsodie and Petit Piece	Claude Debussy
Fantasy Pieces	Robert Schumann
Concerto for Two Clarinets (first movement)	Franz Krommer
Concertpiece No. 1	Felix Mendellsohn

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COURSE CLARIARTE, August 25th - September 2nd

with an interest in American Music including John Cage and Charles Ives

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Rutgers University Woodwind Day 2012 - Dr Maureen Hurd-Hause, Director

Clarinet Spectacular -

Caroline Hartig, Director

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 MASTER CLASS with STEVE COHEN

Online clarinet lessons with one on one video feedback from Ricardo Morales

COURSE CLARIARTE, August 25th - September 2nd

with an interest in American Music including John Cage and Charles Ives

Symposien

Nächstes Symposium:

Bisherige Symposien der Deutschen Klarinetten-Gesellschaft

Saarbrücken 2010

Single Reed Symposium

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Schedule of Events (Tentative)

Rutgers University Woodwind Day 2012 - Dr Maureen Hurd-Hause, Director

Clarinet Spectacular -

Caroline Hartig, Director