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Aeolus Clarinet Choir (Showa Academia Musicae) |
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Formed in 1984 by the former lecturer
at the Showa Academia Musicae, Nagataka Ogasawara.
The first concert was held in the year it was
established under the baton of Ogasawara. Since the
11th annual concert in 1995, the baton was passed on
to Horikawa, lecuturer of the school. In 1998, 2000,
and 2004, special concerts were held inviting the
clarinetist, Walter Boeykens as the conductor. The
performance was highly praised by Boeykens, and it
resulted in a production of a CD. The Choir is
holding performances aggressively in both within and
outside the University, in addition to the regular
annual concert held once every year. ‘Aeolus’ is a
“God of Flight” in Greek Myth, that represents a big
leap and rules the sky. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
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Tatsuzo Akasaka |
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After studying at Kunitachi College of
Music, he learned at Conservatoire Supérieur
Nationale de Musique de Paris, Conservatoire
Nationale de Versailles and Paul Ducas
Conservatoire, graduating with Premier Prix from all
of them. He has remarkable winning records, such as
the first prize at Paris International Competition
in 1987, third prize at Toulon International
Competition in 1991, first prize at Japan Wood-wind
Competition, just to name a few. He enjoys acclaim
as an authodox clarinetist because of his supreme
techniques and musicianship, as well as great
popularity from the people of different generations
because of his variety of repertoire, pops and folk
music, to say nothing of classic. Joined the concert
tour of Altes Quartet from Vienna to Japan in 2000,
and also Goede Trio, conducted by Daniel Goede, for
their Japan tour in 2002. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 15:30 Recital
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Ricardo Alves |
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Born in 1978 in Portugal. He studied
at Oporto Conservatory with Adam Wierzba and at
ESMAE University with Antonio Saiote. He
participated in some Portuguese and Spanish
Orchestras. He has participated in competitions in
Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, USA, Romania and
won some prizes including the 2nd prize at Villa de
Montroy Competition in 2003. He was the 2nd clarinet
in Coimbra Chamber Orchestra and now is the 2nd
clarinet of Centro Classic Orquestra. He is
currently studying with Alain Damiens at Aveiro
University for a Master Degree in Performance. |
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Thursday, July 21, 9:30 Recital
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Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
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Michel Arrignon |
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Michel Arrignon started studying at
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de
Paris at the age of 16 and won the first prize for
clarinet and for chamber music. After graduation, he
went to the United States to study further at the
University of Michigan. In 1972, won the second
prize at Geneva International Competition. Played
with Ensemble Inter-Contemporain under direction of
Piere Boulez from 1978 to 1983, and in 1984 joined
the Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Paris as
principal clarinetist playing for five years.
Appointed as professor of the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 1989 and he
continues teaching until now. His repertoire is wide
enough from the works before Mozart to contemporary
clarinet pieces. His techniques, as well as
interpretation especially of the contemporary music,
enjoys world-wide recognition and acclaim, and many
composers dedicated works to him. He has also been
devoting himself in developing the young musicians
and invited to various workshops and seminars held
throughout the world. |
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Thursday, July 21, 10:00 Conference
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Keiichi Atsuta |
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While studying at Kunitachi College of
Music, obtained French government scholorship and
studied at National Rouen Conservatory. Won the 3rd
prize at the 47th Japan Music Competition. In 1984,
invited as principal clarinet player to the Korean
Symphony Orchestra taking the chance of its
foundation. Studied also in Vienna as a trainee
despatched by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in
l989, and since his return, has taught at Shobi
Academy of Music in Tokyo and Shin-ai Gakuen School
in Hamamatsu. Now active as a lecturer at Nagoya
College of Music while playing as a member of Nagoya
Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Christopher Ayer |
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Christopher Ayer is a professor of
Clarinet at Stephen F. Austin State University in
Nacogdoches, TX, where he coordinates undergraduate
and graduate clarinet study. He has adjudicated
competitions, presented clinics, and performed in
solo and chamber recitals throughout the United
States and Canada. Dr. Ayer earned the DMA in
clarinet performance from the Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, and the Master of
Music degree from the New England Conservatory of
Music. He has studied with Thomas Martin and Ronald
de Kant and has performed under the baton of Simon
Rattle and Michael Tilson-Thomas. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Conference
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Tie Bai |
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Regarded as one of China’s finest
clarinetists. He was the winner of the First Chinese
Youth Clarinet Competition. T. Bai graduated from
Beijing Military Art College and University of
Southern California. He has given solo recitals in
major cities in China, the United States, Europe and
Asia. He has also been featured as a soloist with
California Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Baroque
Orchestra, Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean
Philharmonic, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra and Chengdu
Philharmonic and many others. His book, “Clarinet
Staccato”, was published by Chinese Youth Publishing
House, and his solo CD was released by China Audio &
Video Publishing House. |
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Thursday, July 21, 9:30 Recital
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Marguerite Baker |
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Principal clarinetist with the
Baltimore Opera Orchestra and Assistant Professor of
Clarinet at Towson University. An active performer
in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore area, she performs
regularly with the National Gallery Orchestra,
Alexandria Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, and the
Wolf Trap Opera Orchestra. In previous seasons, she
has played with the Kennedy Center Orchestra, the
National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and in
various theater orchestras. She is a former member
of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. ,
and was a guest artist at Music from Gretna in June
2000 and in the summers of 1998 and 1999. She was on
faculty at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan
performing as soloist and as a member of
Quintessence Chamber Ensemble. An active chamber
musician, being a founding member of the Atlantic
Winds woodwind quintet. In April 2004 she was
invited to perform solo recitals with pianist,
Jeffrey Chappell at the Whim Museums Candlelight
Concert Series in Frederiksted, St. Croix. |
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Friday, July 22, 12:00 Recital
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Jozsef Balogh |
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Clarinetist, composer, and a respected
teacher and long-term member of InterClarinet, a
quintet of clarinets. He is a graduate of the Franz
Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. As a principal
clarinetist, Jozsef Balogh was a member of such
ensembles as the Opera Orchestra and the Hungarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra and an active performer on
clarinet, saxophone and the traditional instrument,
the tarogato. He uses both the German and Böhm
system clarinets equally. His repertory covers a
wide range of musical genres from classical to jazz,
klezmer, even gipsy, combining Hungarian musical
traditions and Middle Eastern influences with his
own personal style. Performs extensively as both
soloist and chamber musician, and gives
masterclasses throughout the world. He is the
Director of Europe Art School , and the
Interclarinet Master School in Budapest. He is also
the President of the Hungarian Clarinet Society. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 19:00 Recital
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Diane Barger |
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Associate professor of clarinet at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she is a member
of the Moran Woodwind Quintet and serves as
principal clarinetist with the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra. An active soloist, chamber musician and
master class clinician throughout the United States
and abroad, Barger has been a featured artist at
numerous I.C.A. ClarinetFests and Oklahoma Clarinet
Symposiums. With the Moran Quintet, one of the most
active and visible quintets in the Midwest, she has
performed at the Grand Valley Music Festival, the
North Central Music Educator's National Convention,
the Double Reed Society Convention, and at various
universities around the United States. As a student
of Frank Kowalsky and Robert Marcellus, she received
the Doctor of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees
from the Florida State University and the Graduate
Certificate and Master of Music degrees from
Northwestern University. |
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Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
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Dr. Gregory M. Barrett |
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Besides being professor at Northern
Illinois University, he plays in the Chicago
Sinfonietta, the Ars Viva Symphony, comprised mainly
of performers from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
and other orchestras in Chicago area. He has been
presenting Japanese music to the clarinetists around
Chicago and hosted at his university “Sounds of
Japan,” an entire day of music festival inviting
Japanese Consul-General. Clarinet choir performed
the lead of Hideaki lwai, “Dawn” by Nagako Konishi,
and arrangements of “Chatsumi” and “Haru yo Koi”,
etc. , Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John
Bruce Yeh performed the works by Ichiro Nodaira,
Akira Miyoshi, and Takashi Yoshimatsu. Recorded the
CD of the Finnish clarinet music, which was
certainly influenced by lzumi Tateno and others
ranging from traditional to avant-garde. |
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Thursday, July 21, 10:00 Recital
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Basset Sound |
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Takeshi Sugimoto: Graduated from
Kunitachi College of Music studied with late
Kazuhiko Ikematsu. Now the member of Yokohama
Clarinet Ensemble, and also of Yokohama
Gakuyu-Kyokai Wind Orchestra, and Erde Opera
Philharmonic Orchestra. An instructor of the Wind
Crew at Yamano Gakki Music Store.
Rika Irii: Graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of
Music and also from Kunitachi Conservatory, Music
Department. Studied with Akira Tsunoda, P. Schmiddle
and M. Bower. Member of Erde Opera Philharmonic
Orchestra, and now performing as a free-lance
clarinetist.
Chisato Takahashi: Graduated from Senzoku Gakuen
College of Music, studied with Late Kazuhiko
Ikemastsu, Akira Tsunoda and Masakazu Fukushima.
Performing the clarinet while working at the
IT-oriented company. Organizes a music school in
Tokyo, and a member of Yokohama Clarinet Ensemble as
well. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Kristina Belisle |
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Associate Professor of Clarinet at the
University of Akron, clarinetist of the Solaris Wind
Quintet, and Principal Clarinetist of the Akron
Symphony. An active soloist, she has performed
concertos with the Houston Symphony, the Flint
Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and
orchestras/wind ensembles throughout Arkansas and
North East Ohio. As a chamber musician, she has
performed at the Renaud Chamber Music Series, the
Fontana Festival of Music and Art, the Norfolk,
Bowdoin, and Garth Newel Chamber Music Festivals.
Internationally, Belisle has performed at the 2003
and 2000 International ClarinetFests, the 2002 Xi'an
(China) International Clarinet and Saxophone
Festival and has given masterclasses in China and
Taiwan. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from Michigan State University where she studied
with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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Ani A. Berberian |
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Clarinetist with the United States Air
Force Academy Band and the Rampart Winds Woodwind
Quintet. Prior to her appointment in 2003, she
served as Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Music
Theory at Southwest Missouri State University. She
has appeared internationally as a soloist and
clinician, having performed at the International
Clarinet Association ClarinetFests, the National
Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors
Conference, and the Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Montana-Idaho and Michigan Clarinet Symposia. As a
member of the Missouri Chamber Players, she appeared
as a soloist and chamber musician in Norway, Sweden
and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. Ani holds
the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet
Performance from Michigan State University, the
Master of Music degree from Arizona State
University, to name a few. Her principal teachers
include Elsa Ludewig Verdehr, Robert Spring, and
Luis Rossi. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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Jan Jakub Bokun |
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Born in 1974 in Wroclaw (Poland). He
studied clarinet at the city’s music academy and
later with Guy Dangain at the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique de Paris. In 2001, he received
a master degree in conducting at the University of
Southern California. He was awarded fellowships to
the American Academy for Conducting at the Aspen
Music Festival and the Verbier Academy, studying
with David Zinman, Jorma Panula, Kurt Masur and
James Levine. He has won prizes, as soloist, chamber
musician and conductor at various competitions.
Twice - in 1999 in Ostend and in 2002 in Stockholm,
he was the Polish representative at the ClarinetFest.
He has been invited to give masterclasses at the
Sofia Conservatory and at the Royal Conservatory in
Brussels. Since 2001, he taught clarinet and chamber
music at the Wroclaw Academy of Music |
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Wednesday, July 20, 15:00 Recital
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The British Clarinet Ensemble |
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Formed in 1995 and is sponsored by the
Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain. Its
members are professional performers, clarinet
teacher and enthusiasts. After making British debut
at the Annual Conference of the British Association
of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles at the Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester, the group has
performed in various places and occasions. The group
participated in the International ClarinetFest
several times after the first appearance in 1999 in
Ostend, Belgium, at the festivals and concerts
including International ClarinetFest in 1999 held in
Ostend, Belgium, New Orleans in 2000, Colchester,
Essex, in 2002 and also in 2003 in Washington D. C.
They are also the frequent guest performers at the
British Clarinet Congress, while touring around
Europe and other countries. They have also made
recording for CDs. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert
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Jean-Daniel Bugaj |
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He obtained the first prize at the
Municipal Conservatory of the sixth ward in Paris in
1999, having studied with Bruno Martinez, and also
first prize of clarinet with unanimity at the
National Conservatory in Versailles, learning under
Philippe Cuper, and moreover the first prize of
clarinet with unanimity at the Conservatoire
National Supérieur (de Musique) de Paris.
Participated in 2001 to 2002 in the Bohuslav Martinu
International Music Academy in Prague whose art
director was Maurice Bourgue. In 2001 he was
admitted to join the Air of Paris Music Orchestra,
and in 2003 also admitted to join the National
Police Orchestra of Paris. In the same year, he
joined in the Sandander International Music Academy
of chamber music in Spain, and appeared in the
concerts with Gerard Causse, Klaus Thunemann, and so
on. He gave concerts in the 39th International Music
Festival of La Chaisedieu with Maurice Bourgue.
Played as soloist of the Royal Flandres Philharmony
Orchestra in Antwerp for which Philippe Herreweche
was music director. Now a Clarinet Soloist of the
Bretagne Orchestra. |
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Friday, July 22, 17:00 Recital
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Brigid Burke |
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A composer, clarinet soloist, visual
artist, and educator, having the Master of Music in
composition from Melbourne University. She has
performed extensively in solo and chamber recitals,
both nationally and internationally. In 2005 she
made performance in Logos, Germany, CD launch and
art exhibition in Melbourne, concerts of original
works at Melbourne Kalied Theatre and Victoria
University with David McNicol, piano, and
performances of original works with ensemble Elk
Trio. Previous highlights include the 2003 Asian
Music Festival Tokyo, 2002 Cybersonica Festival at
The ICA London, and Seoul International Computer
Music Festivals. Her work exists on the cusp between
acoustic and electronic sound with mixed media art
works, traditional print making, video art and the
new and fledging forms within the field of
electronic music and imaging. Her work is beyond the
framework of traditional music and video art and is
considered as electronic painting, or a high art
concert. Her most recent CD recordings have been
reviewed and broadcasted internationally. The
Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council,
Japanese Printing Corporation, Community Arts
Centers and universities have also supported Brigid
in her performances, compositions and artwork. |
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Sunday, July 24, 12:00 Concert
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Alessandro Carbonare |
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Studied music at Verona conservatory
in Italy. Awarded at international competitions in
Geneva, Prague, Paris, Toulon and Munich. As a
soloist, he has given a lot of concerts with many
notable orchestras including the Bayerischer
Rundfunk Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,
Wien Sinfonietta and so on. He has appeared at
prestigious halls such as the Champs Elisèe Theater
in Paris, the Mozarteum in Salzbourg, Carnegie Hall
in New York and many others. His next concerts
featured as soloist will be with the RAI National
Symphony Orchestra of Italy, Oslo Philarmonic
Orchestra, etc. Currently he is the principal
clarinetist (super-soloist) in the French National
Orchestra. He took back again the way of Italy two
years ago for integrate with l’Académie Sante
Cécilia à Roma. He gives master-classes at
universities and academies in Italy, the USA and
Japan. He also contributes to the development of
this instrument with the Selmer Company, Paris, and
the expansion of the repertoire for the clarinet
with the support of Vandoren-Paris Company. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 17:00 Concert
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Pedro Cervantes-Ojeda |
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Pedro Cervantes-Ojeda is a Professor
of Music at the Autonomous University of Baja
California and at the University of Colima in
Mexico. Lead clarinet in the Wind Quintet of the
University of Colima and also playing with the
Orchestra of the Californias. He has collaborated
with several professional organizations in Mexico
and in other countries, among them are the Baja
California Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of
the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the
Carlos Chavez Symphonic Orchestra. Also conducted
several orchestras and professional chamber music
ensembles. He studied orchestra conducting and
clarinet in Mexico City and since the initiation of
his professional career, has attended the advanced
music courses in his native Mexico, Argentina, the
United States, and most recently, in Italy. |
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Sunday, July 24, 10:00 Parnassos
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Leanne Manning Chan |
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Principal clarinetist of the Shenzilen
Symphony Orchestra in China, a member of the City
Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and plays with the
Hong Kong Philharmonic as an extra player. She has
performed for the Hong Kong Chamber Music Society,
and broadcasted for RTHK Radio 4. The first prize
winner of the 2003 Co-op Press Woodwind Recording
Competition (USA), Chan recently performed an all
Bozza Program at the Melbourne International
Festival of Single Reeds in Australia. She has a
Bachelor of Music with honours from the University
of Queensland, Australia, and a Graduate Diploma in
Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of
Music, studying with Floyd Williams. She has a
Master of Music from Michigan State University, USA,
studying with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, and has also
studied with Andrew Marriner and Andrew Simon.
Before living in Hong Kong, Leanne free-lanced with
many professional orchestras and ensembles in
Australia and the USA, including the Long Beach and
Santa Monica Symphonies, faculty and contemporary
music ensembles at the University of California, San
Diego, etc. |
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Saturday, July 23, 14:00 Recital
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Wei-Leng (William) Chen |
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Wei-leng (William) Chen has been
principal clarinetist of the Taipei Symphony
Orchestra for 19 years. During graduate studies with
Anthony Gigliotti at Temple University in
Philadelphia, he gained a rapport with his teacher,
which continued over the years and in their
collaboration with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. An
international performer, Chen appears often as an
orchestral soloist, and chamber music recitalist. He
can be heard performing with the Concerto Soloists,
and the Taipei Woodwind Quintet. Chen is frequently
invited to judge competitions, and has recently been
asked to join panels for the Japan Young Artists
Competition of JCS and the International Clarinet
Competition. He was Music Director of 2003
International Clarinet Festival in Taipei. |
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Friday, July 22, 18:30 Recital
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Clearly Three |
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The members of the Clearly Three have
performed together for numerous times during the
past twenty years. All three performers teach at the
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. They officially
came together as Clearly Three in 2002-2003 as a
result of a research project on music for clarinet,
bassoon and piano, producing a CD recording of some
of their favorite compositions in 2005. The CD,
Clearly Three performs Trios from the Twentieth
Century is available through
www.cdbaby.com/cd/kfletcher. |
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Friday, July 22, 15:00 Recital
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Jonathan Cohler |
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Jonathan Cohler is recognized
internationally as an absolute master of the
clarinet, technically and tonally. Through his
performances around the world and on records, he has
thrilled an ever-widening audience with his
incredible musicianship and total technical command.
“Fanfare” Magazine has compared him to one of the
giants of classical music, Dinu Lipatti, and the
magazine dubbed his performance “superhuman”. A
highly acclaimed recording artist with an
extraordinary wide repertoire, his release of “More
Cohler on Clarinet” was chosen for BBC Music
Magazine’s Best CD of The Year. In addition to his
work as a soloist, he is an active chamber musician
and conductor and currently the Music Director and
Conductor of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and
Founder/Artistic Director of the world renowned
International Woodwind Festival. |
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Saturday, July 23, 16:30 Recital
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Larry Combs |
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Larry Combs has been Principal
Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since
1978 and DePaul School of Music Faculty since 1981.
He is a founding member of the Chicago Chamber
Musicians, serving as Artistic Co-Director from 1987
to 1995. He has recorded virtually the entire
orchestral repertoire with the Chicago Symphony
under such conductors as Solti, Barenboim, Levine,
Abbado, Tilson-Thomas, Boulez and others. He was
awarded the Grammy in 1994 for his participation in
the recording of chamber music of Beethoven and
Mozart with Daniel Barenboim and members of the
Berlin Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony and with
orchestras nation-wide. He was selected as a member
of the World Orchestra for Peace in Geneva
commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United
Nations in 1998. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 19:30 Concert
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Philippe Cuper |
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Philippe Cuper has played first
clarinet in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under
the baton of Claudio Abbado (for a tour in South
Africa in 2000), in the Munich Radio Symphony
Orchestra, in the Czech Philharmonic, and for about
50 other orchestras around the world. He is
currently first solo clarinet at the Paris Opera. He
studied clarinet with Gilbert Voisin, Guy Dangain,
Guy Deplus and Henri Druart, and musicology at the
Sorbonne. He is the top-prize winner at the Paris
Concservatoire and at the international competition
in Prague. He has collaborated with composers such
as Messiaen and Francaix, and chamber music partners
such as P. Badura-Sukoda and M. W. Chung. Cuper is a
professor at the Versailles Conservatory, and has
taught at academies and universities in numerous
cities of the world. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 19:30 Concert
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Thursday, July 21, 17:00 Recital
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Eddie Daniels |
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He first came to the attention as a
tenor saxophonist with the Tad Jones-Mel Lewis
Orchestra in 1966, having won the first prize on
saxophone at the International Competition for
Modern Jazz in Vienna. He worked with Tad and Mel
for several years, touring Europe and making live
recording by clarinet at the Village Vanguard, which
won Downbeat Magazine's International Critics New
Star of Clarinet Award in 1986. He began studying
clarinet at age 13 and recieved masters degree in
clarinet from The Julliard Scool. Jack Elliot,
musical director of New American Orchestra,
commissioned Gorge Calandrelli to compose for him,
and Daniels premiered Concerto for Jazz Clarinet and
Orchestra in 1984, then recorded with the
Philharmonia Orchestra of London on his debut album
“Breakthrough,” which achieved overwhelming critical
acclaim, and he started diverse recordings in many
styles of jazz, classical and crossover. In his
hands, the music of Mozart can be as engaging as
that of Charlie Parker and a concert featuring both
can be a uniquely rewarding experience for the
audience. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 19:30 Concert
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Friday, July 22, 19:00 Concert
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Buddy DeFranco |
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Buddy began playing professionally in
1935, at the age of only 12, helping his blind
father support a poor family in South Philadelphia.
Now 82, he has begun his 70th year as a professional
musician, still accepting new challenges and playing
with new partners. When the prize list he has
received is seen, it can be said that he is the
First Jazz Clarinetist in the World, and one of the
most imaginative! He used to play with Count Basie
Septet, Glenn Miller Orchestra, with Billy Holiday,
Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie. It’s
impossible to count the number of shows where he was
seen, and moreover, he has his own TV show in the
United States. He has been heard all over the world,
because he is either a composer, an arranger or a
performer. |
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Friday, July 22, 19:00 Concert
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Guy Deplus |
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Strawinsky said about him: “Among the
outstanding instrumentalists, Guy Deplus has really
reached new instrumental and musical skills. ” After
being professor of chamber music, later on professor
of clarinet, of the Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique de Paris, nowadays he is professor of the
École Normale de Musique de Paris. He was also
“supersoliste” of the Opéra of Paris. Founder,
together with Pierre Boulez, of the “Concerts du
Domain Musical” and “Ars Nova” with Marius Constant,
Guy Deplus taught in Japan, the USA and regulary in
Nice and Annecy. He is a judge of the most important
international competitions, Munich, Prague, Tokyo,
Genève, . . . A lot of composers have dedicated and
entrusted the premier of their works to him: M.
Constant, O. Messiaen, I. Xenakis, Jolivet. He has
recorded several CD’s (Decca, C. B. S. , Deutsche
Grammophon, Erato, . . . ) and has played with the
most prestigious conductors: Monteux, Munch, Boehm,
Solti, Sawallisch, Boulez. . . |
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Wednesday, July 20, 14:00 Recital
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Julie DeRoche |
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Julie DeRoche completed her B.M. in
clarinet performance at Northwestern University,
where she was a student of Robert Marcellus and
Clark Brody. After graduation she remained in
Chicago, developing a significant career as a
clarinetist and educator. She performs regularly
with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and can be heard
on a number of CSO recordings under the batons of
Boulez and Barenboim. Since 1994 she has toured
regularly with CSO in Europe, South America, Asia
and the U.S. and has performed with that
organization at the Ravinia Festival. In addition,
she served full-time as acting second clarinetist
for the 2000-2001 CSO season. She also performs with
numerous chamber, opera and ballet orchestras and
has recorded hundreds of radio and TV commercials. |
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Ros Dunlop |
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She has been a strong advocate for the
cause of new music - particularly Australian new
music - for the clarinet for most of her
professional life. One of Australia’s leading
clarinetist, especially of contemporary music, she
has performed throughout Australia, New Zealand, the
UK, Europe, Hong Kong, East Timor, and the U. S. ,
giving solo and ensemble concerts and appearing at
many festivals. In 2002, she made two concert tours
of East Timor, performing multimedia pieces in town
and venues that had never before seen and heard
Western art music. In 2003, she toured the US, UK,
Canada and Hong Kong, presenting multimedia concerts
with a focus on human rights. She teaches clarinet
at University of Sydney. She is also helping develop
curriculum in East Timor and draw international
attention to the traditional music of East Timor. |
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Sunday, July 24, 16:15 Recital
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Javier Vinasco |
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Founded in 2003 by Javier Vinasco and
Tomás Barreiro, E C O (Ensamble ContemporáneO) is a
group that seeks musical diversity. The intention of
the ensemble is to broaden the limited repertoire
for clarinet and guitar expanding it by transcribing
music such as Latin-American, Impressionism,
Baroque, Electronic, and New music, commissioning
pieces from young composers. They are preparing
their debut CD with Latin-American music. |
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Saturday, July 23, 9:30 Recital
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Joseph Eller |
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Joseph Eller has recently been
appointed as the new clarinet professor at the
University of South Carolina beginning in fall 2005.
From 1998-2005, he served on the faculty at Kennesaw
State University. A native of Ypsilanti, Michigan,
he received his Bachelor degree from Eastern
Michigan University and Master degree from Louisiana
State University. Has given recitals and has been
soloist with groups throughout much of the Eastern
United States. In the spring of 2004, he toured
Austria performing the double concerto for clarinet
and violin by Karl Stamitz with Jay Christy. He was
principal clarinetist with the 214th Army Band in
Atlanta, GA from 1996 to 2000. He also served as
principal clarinetist of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra
from 1997 to 2005. Currently plays with the Atlanta
Opera Orchestra. |
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Friday, July 22, 12:45 Recital
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Ensemble Sonorité |
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A clarinet quartet founded in Berlin
in l995. After performing in Germany, as well as
making CD recordings, they made debut in Japan in
l999 toured in Tokyo, Hyogo and Yamanashi. In the
same year, they started the series of concerts named
“Sonorité Masterpiece Concerts”, and they enjoyed
great success in the cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama,
Osaka and Hyogo. In the series of concerts, they
performed more than eighty pieces in the classic and
pop styles, and they have been active even more
extensively taking advantage of soft and mild sounds
typical of the clarinet ensemble. Released CDs in
2001 and 2004. The members to participate in the
ClarinetFest 2005 will be H. Aoyama, A. Sunaba, T.
Muranishi and A. Aoyama. (Photo shows the regular
members. ) |
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Sunday, July 24, 10:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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F. Gerard Errante |
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F. Gerard Errante is a clarinetist of
international stature whose performances around the
world have received critical acclaim. A native of
New York City, he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree from The University of Michigan. Has
published two books, composed ten works for
clarinet. He has also recorded for nine record
labels and for many national radio stations
throughout the world. A former President of the
International Clarinet Association, Errante will be
honored at this ClarinetFest by receiving a Lifetime
Achievement Award from that organization. He lives
in Norfolk, Virginia where he is currently the
Co-Director of the Norfolk Chamber Consort, a
position he has held since 1972, a member of the
newly formed duo, Clarion Synthesis, and a member of
the new music ensemble, Creo based at Old Dominion
University where he is serving as Adjunct Professor
of Music |
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Sunday, July 24, 16:15 Recital
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Claude Faucomprez |
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Born in France. Studied at Rille
Conservatoire National and Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Paris Conservatoire).
Awarded at Munich International Competition. After
playing with the Padour Symphony and New France
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, now the principal
clarinetist of Rille National Symphony Orchestra,
and also is a professor of Rille National
Conservatoire. |
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Saturday, July 23, 15:30 Recital
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Flanders Clarinet Quartet |
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Flanders Clarinet Quartet is a
top-level clarinet ensemble. For more than 15 years
these musicians have been giving the traditional
clarinet quartet a new lease of life through their
unrelenting search for new repertoire, through
giving exceptional concerts and by making unique
recordings. Their vast experience of national and
international concert activity (more than 450) and
their numerous recordings are the fruits of these
effort. Also in the future Flanders Clarinet Quartet
intends to remain exemplary in their field, because
of the enormously enthusiastic response of their
public. People often comment that they rarely
witnessed such an unusual and enjoyable concert as
that of Flanders Clarinet Quartet. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 11:00 Recital
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The Fountain City Ensemble |
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The four members of The Fountain City
Ensemble are all faculty of the same university. The
clarinetist, Lisa Oberlander, acquired her Bachelor
degree at the Indiana University and her MM and DMA
at the Arizona State University. In 1994, she was a
winner of the Arizona State University Concerto
Competition, and has performed as a featured soloist
with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the Arizona
State University Symphony Orchestra and many others.
She has also performed at the ClarinetFest in Salt
Lake City in 2003 and Ostend, Belgium in 1999. Lisa
is also a frequent chamber musician, solo
recitalist, and clinician, giving recitals and
master classes across the U. S. She joined the
faculty of the Schwob School of Music at Columbus
State University in 1998. Lisa performs on a Buffet
Greenline clarinet with a Pyne mouthpiece and
Vandoren V-12 reeds. |
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Friday, July 22, 12:45 Recital
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Stephen Fox |
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Stephen Fox combines the backgrounds
of musician, instrument maker and scientist. As an
active performer, he plays modern and historical
clarinet and saxophone in orchestral, chamber and
commercial music settings. He has presented recitals
in Norway and Finland as well as across Canada. His
lectures and demonstrations on clarinet acoustics,
design and history have been heard at schools and
universities in Europe and North America. Fox is one
of the selected handful of independent clarinet
builders in the Western world, designing and
producing both modern clarinets and reproduction of
historical instruments, used by musicians in all
fields of music. For part of each year he also
teaches woodwind instrument making and repairing at
Musikk Instrument Adademiet in Sarpsborg, Norway. |
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Saturday, July 23, 9:30 Recital
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Wenzel Fuchs |
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Born in Austria. Studied under Prof.
Walter Kaefer at Innsbruck Music School and also
Prof. Peter Schmidl at Vienna High School of Music,
and graduated with the most outstanding result.
Joined the Wien Volksoper Orchestra, and after
playing as principal of ORF Symphony Orchestra,
appointed as the principal clarinetist of Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 10:00 Conference
Room No. 1
Saturday, July 23, 19:00 Concert
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Yoko Fujii |
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She studied clarinet with Kazuko
Ninomiya. She studied clarinet at the Conservatoire
National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and
graduated there in 1983, winning the first prize. In
1985, she completed her studies in the chamber music
department of the same school, also winning the
first prize. From 1981 to 1985, she studied clarinet
with Guy Deplus and Jacques Lancelot, and chamber
music with Christian Larde. In 1986, she became a
clarinetist of the New Japan Philharmonic and from
1991, she has been a principal clarinetist of the
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she is
teaching at the wind department of the Toho Gakuen
Junior College. First-prize winner of the 1st Japan
Clarinet Competition. Second-prize winner of the 2nd
Wind and Percussion Competition (no first-prize
winner). Toulon International Competition, Silver
medallist. A member of the Epsilon Wood Wind
Quintet. |
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Thursday, July 21, 16:00 Recital
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Koji Fujika |
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Born in Hiroshima in 1933. He started
to study clarinet at the age of 14, and entered the
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in
1952. During his college years, he was absorbed in
both classic and jazz. He won the 1st prize in the
25th Mainichi Music Competition, Wind Instrument
Division. In 1962, he was awarded a prize at the
Helsinki Peace Friendship Festival. He premiered
Bartok’s “Contrasts” in Japan. He also premiered A.
Copland’s Concerto conducted by the composer in
Japan. Being a great fan of Benny Goodman, he played
Swing Jazz with the big names such as the late Seiji
Hiraoka, Misao Ikeda, and Saburo Nambu, and later he
formed his own Koji Fujika Quintet in 1958. In 2001,
he was awarded the 26th Fumio Nanri Award. |
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Sunday, July 17, 17:00 Concert
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Naoko Fukushima |
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Began learning the clarinet at the age
of nine. Graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music, studied with
Ayako Ohura, Yuji Murai and Hidemi Mikai, and the
chamber music with Yoshiaki Obata and Akiko
Kitagawa. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Concert
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Yuji Furusawa |
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Studied with late Risei Kitazume at
Toho Gakuen School of Music. Studied in France from
1966 to 1970 studied with Jacques Lancelot at Rouen
Conservatoire. Now an instructor at Toho Gakuen’
affiliated music school. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Michael Galván |
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Michael Galván, president of the
International Clarinet Association, is Professor of
Clarinet at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He
is clarinetist of the Ithaca Wind Quintet and
principal clarinet of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.
Active in the I.C.A. ever since a student “road
trip” in 1979, Galván has served the association in
a variety of capacities. I.C.A. audiences have heard
him perform in Tempe, Oostende, and Washington, D.C.
Educated in New Mexico and Illinois, U.S.A., his
teachers were Floyd Williams, Larry Combs, and
Howard Klug, with additional studies with Stanley
Hasty and Anthony Gigliotti. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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D. Gause-Snelson |
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A native of the Washington, D.C.,
area. Studied clarinet with Lee Gibson, Larry Maxey,
Felix Viscuglia, and Bill Wright. She has been
active as a musician for over two decades on the Las
Vegas Strip, primarily as a conductor, pianist, and
synthesist. Often, she may be found playing
keyboards for the hit musicals such as “Mamma Mia”.
Has played clarinet for such great Broadway musicals
as “West Side Story” and “Evita.” A recipient of the
coveted “Who’s Who Among American Teachers” Award,
she is a professor at the Community College of
Southern Nevada, where she teaches clarinet, piano,
and theory. Performs regularly as a soloist, chamber
musician, and orchestral player, appearing
frequently with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and many
distinguished performers such as Andrea Bocelli, and
Luciano Pavarotti. She is a multiyear recipient of
grants from the Nevada Arts Council, as well as the
National Endowment for the Arts.These grants
partially fund CCSN’s International New Music
Festival, of which she is the founder and director.
Now a member of the CCSN Faculty New Music Ensemble
Synchronix. |
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Sunday, July 24, 16:15 Recital
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Daniel Geeting |
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Studied at University of Oregon
receiving doctor of musical arts and conducting
certificate, Master of music at University of
Southern California and also learned at Mozarteum,
Salzburg in l971. Founder/leader of the CLU Faculty
Wind Quintet, and played as the member of new West
Symphony, Inland Empire Symphony and as principal
clarinetist at Conejo Symphony. Recorded Gordon
Jacob’s chamber music for clarinet and performed the
same piece at British Music Information Center in
London in l995. Latest performance was made in 2004
at Indian Classical Music Concert. Now director of
instrumental music at California Lutheran
University. |
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Thursday, July 21, 9:30 Recital
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James Gillespie |
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James Gillespie serves as Regents
Professor of Music at the University of North Texas,
having served as a faculty member at Concord
College, Indiana State University, and Northeast
Louisiana University. He holds the master’s and
doctorate degrees in clarinet/woodwinds from Indiana
University studying clarinet with Henry Gulick. Also
studied with Mitchell Lurie. His books on works for
reed trio and for unaccompanied solo clarinet have
become standard references in the field. For the
past 26 years he has been the editor of “The
Clarinet”, the quarterly journal of the
International Clarinet Association. Composers from
Europe and the U. S. A. have dedicated works to him,
and he has premiered several new works for clarinet.
Served as judge for the Dos Hermanas International
Clarinet Competition in Spain for three times, and
often performs as a member of the Texas Clarinet
Consort. His students hold positions in colleges and
universities throughout the United States, and
several have been semi-finalists and prizewinners in
the I. C. A. Young Artist Competition and also
winners in the clarinet category of the Yamaha Young
Performing Artist program. |
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Friday, July 22, 11:30 Recital
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Jan Guns |
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He is enthusiastically involved in
diversified field of music, for example, giving solo
recitals of bass clarinet and basset horn, and
playing with various chamber music groups, wind
ensembles and orchestras. He has played J.
Herdelmann “Spotlight on the Bass Clarinet” and J.
van del Rhost’s “Sentimental Three Movements for
Bass Clarinet and Wind Orchestra” (world premier
with TKWO February 2005), and contributed to
popularizing the attractiveness of the bass
clarinet. He is currently the solo clarinetist with
the Flemish Radio Orchestra and a bass clarinet
teacher at the Concervatoire de Antwerp. In Japan,
he holds seminars at the Belgium-Flandre Cultural
Exchange Center. |
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Thursday, July 21, 17:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall
Friday, July 22, 18:00 Recital
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Koichi Hamanaka |
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Koichi Hamanaka graduated top on the
list from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music. While he was studying there, he won the
first prize at the 28th Japan Music Competition.
Joined the NHK Symphony right after graduation, and
took part in their first European Tour. He also
formed the “Aurous Quintet” with Shinya Koide and
Seizo Maruyama. After being strongly moved by the
performance of Jack Lancelot, he decided to leave
the NHK Symphony to study with him in France. During
his 9 years stay in France, he was a member in the
Orchestra of Rouen National Opera. After returning
to Japan, he went back to the NHK Symphony as the
principal clarinetist and held that position until
his retirement. He now teaches at Tokyo College of
Music and Senzoku-Gakuen College of Music. Current
President of JCS. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
Hall
Saturday, July 23, 18:00 Recital
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Eiji Hanaoka |
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Born in Tokyo and graduated from Nihon
University Art College, Music Department. When he
was a high-school student, he started learning music
with Koichi Ohno, and afterwards Yukio Ohashi and
Risei Kitazume. In 1975, joined the band Dixie
Kings, but now his main activity is playing with his
own band Eiji Hanaoka and Swing All Stars, which is
a swing combo in the style similar to that of Benny
Goodman. He also formed the groups in various
different styles showing off his versatile talent.
He is also familiar with classic Rakugo, Japanese
comic storytelling, that reflects his own character
with good sense of humour. Often invited to jazz
festivals in overseas, but on the contrary, he
organized the regular concert in Japan in 1987
titled “The Memories of Benny Goodman”, in order to
remain and convey the sound of Benny Goodman as
heritage to the next generations. |
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Friday, July 22, 19:00 Concert
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Caroline Hartig |
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Caroline Hartig has been heard as a
clarinet soloist and chamber musician throughout the
United States, Canada and Europe. She has appeared
with orchestras and contemporary music ensembles in
major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, where
she made her solo debut. Widely recognized and
sought after for her new-music collaborations,
Hartig can be heard on the CD Dancing Solo featuring
the clarinet works of composer Libby Larsen. Her
most recent CD Clarinet Brilliante, (Centaur
Records), was honored as a “Critics’ Choice” by the
American Record Guide. Her artistry has been
reviewed as “dazzling, with numbing, blazing
fluidity and rich, luxuriant fervor. . . coiled
virtuosity” (The American Record Guide The world
premiere of Chalumeau, by leading American composer
and Pulitzer prize winner, William Bolcom, was
commissioned for Caroline Hartig for ClarinetFest
2005, and made possible through the generous support
of the Michigan State University Sesquicentennial
Commission, funded by the Office for Research and
Graduate Studies and the College of Arts and
Letters. Hartig is currently on the clarinet faculty
at Michigan State University. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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Anna Hashimoto |
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Anna was born in Japan in 1989 and
moved to London six months later. She started
playing the clarinet when she was 8 years old and
was admitted at the Junior Department of the Royal
College of Music in 1998 where she studied with
Charles Hine for 6 years. There she has been awarded
the Else and Leonard Cross Scholarship. She won the
First Prize at the Japan Clarinet Society’s ‘Young
Clarinetists Competition’ in 2003 where she was also
awarded all three special prizes. As a result she
was invited to play as a guest performer at the JCS
concert in Tokyo in 2004. That year she won the
Parthenon Tama Prize at the prestigious ‘Japan
Clarinet Competition’ as the youngest participant.
At the age of 15 Anna Hashimoto made her London
Barbican debut playing Weber Concertino with the
English Chamber Orchestra in December 2004. Also in
March she appeared at Wigmore Hall playing as a
Francaix’s Wind Quintet member. Forthcoming
engagements include Rossini’s ‘Introduction, Theme
and Variations’ with London Pro Arte Orchestra and a
further performance with the English Chamber
Orchestra. Currently a member of the National Youth
Orchestra of Great Britain. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert
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Sunday, July 24, 14:00 Concert
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Yuko Hattan |
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Graduated from Kyoto City University
of Arts, being awarded for her outstanding
achievement in the music department. Participated in
the 20th Yamaha Wind Instrument Freshmans Concert.
Studied the clarinet with Sumio Yamakawa and Tomomi
Takahashi. Attended the master class by Wolfgang
Meiyer at Weimar Franz List Academy’s international
master course. Won the 3rd prize at Japan Wood-Wind
Competition in 2003, and the 2nd prize at Japan
Clarinet Competition, also winning the first prize
at the 21st Japan Wind-instrument Competition
together with Special Award, Education/Science
Minister Award, as well as Tokyo Metropolitan
Governor Award. |
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Christopher Hill & John Walker |
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Christopher Hill is principal
clarinetist of the South Dakota Symphony, having
performed with Omaha symphony and joined Evita World
Tour and Carousel National Tour. He is also a noted
mouthpiece craftsman and the co-designer of the
Chadash-Hill mouthpiece. Has served on the faculties
of the University of Sioux Falls and the University
of South Dakota.
John Walker is the Director of Keyboard Studies at
South Dakota State University in Brookings, and
composer of the original piano accompaniment to the
Rose “32 Etudes” which Carl Fischer released in
2004. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the University of Colorado, and is principal
keyboardist for the South Dakota Symphony. Dr.
Walker is a composer and arranger of works for
piano, cello, clarinet, and piano ensemble, and is
currently recording his piano accompaniments to the
Ferling “48 Studies for Oboe and Saxophone”. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 14:00 Conference
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Sora Hirano |
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Born in 1982 in Florida, Hirano grew
up in Maui, Hawaii and was performing from a young
age. Whilst still in high school, he was performing
with the Maui Symphony Orchestra. Having received
numerous scholarships, Hirano from graduated William
Paterson University of New Jersey with Honors. He is
currently attending Montclair State University in
New Jersey and CUNY Queens College. He currently
studies clarinet with David Singer of the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra. His previous clarinet studies
have been with Kiyosumi Ogura, Yukio Nishie, and
Marianne Gythfeldt of the New Millennium Ensemble.
He has also studied Saxophone with Lenny Pickett and
Paul Cohen. When he attended the Orford Arts
Festival Hirano participated in the masterclasses of
Karl Leister, Andre Moisan, and Robert Reisling;
Hirano has also attending the Rascher Saxophone
Quartet Masterclass at SUNY, Fredoina. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Eric Hoeprich |
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Educated at Harvard University and the
Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, he is
currently a professor at Paris Conservatoire
National Supérieur de Musique and at Royal
Conservatory of Music in The Hague, and teaches
frequently as a guest at music institutions around
the world. For twenty-five years he has been
specialized in performing music from Baroque to late
Romantic with the historical clarinets. As a
founding member of the Orchestra of the 18th
Century, Hoeprich has also performed as a soloist
with this orchestra and many of the major early
music ensembles, under conductors such as Frans
Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, Edo de Waart, to name
the few. In the 1980’s, he founded Nachtmusique and
the Stadler Trio (three basset horns). Has made
dozens of recordings on different labels such as
Deutsche Grammaphon, SONY, etc. Has published
numerous articles about performance and organology
of historical clarinets, in addition to general text
on the clarinet to be published by Yale University
Press. He has a collection of over a hundred antique
clarinets, including some from the eighteenth
century which he is restoring and building replicas
of period originals. He also has instrument making
workshop at home in Amsterdam. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 16:00 Recital
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Der Holz-Klarinettenkreis |
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Der Holz-Klarinettenkreis was formed
in November 1996, by amateur clarinetists who love
German-Austrian instrument and its tone, with an
objective of exchanging information and to play an
ensemble. Today, almost 97% of clarinetists are
playing the French instrument, Boehm style, but
there are still a small percentage of amateur
clarinetists who are attracted to the tone of
German-Austrian style instrument. As these players
are a minority group, there is only little
information on this instrument and reed. The
establishment of Der Holz-Klarinettenkreis gave
these people a streak of light. This eagerly-awaited
club kept growing and now, about 90 clarinetists,
not only in Japan but also from abroad, have joined
this club. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert
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Maureen Hurd |
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Maureen Hurd has appeared in concerts
throughout Europe and North America. She has
performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center and earned praise from the New York Times.
Her performances of contemporary music include
appearances at New York, Merkin Hall, as well as in
Germany, France, and England. She earned the Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music
studying with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich. The
International Clarinet Association recognized her
research on Benny Goodman classical commissions with
an award in 2001. She actively travels as guest
artist to present recitals and master classes at
clarinet festivals and universities throughout the
United States and abroad. She is Assistant Professor
of Clarinet in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at
Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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Shigeru Ikushima |
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Being a student at Kunitachi College
of Music, he received French government scholarship
and went to France to study with J. Lancelot at the
National Conservatory in Rouen. He was the top
graduate in both clarinet and chamber music. He also
studied with Walter Boeykens. Top-prize-winner of
the Orchestra Soloist Qualification Competition. In
1974, he toured various cities in Europe as the solo
clarinetist of the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
From 1974 to 1995, he was the principal clarinetist
with the Toulouse Capital Symphony Orchestra. In
1996, he performed at the International Clarinet
Festival in Paris. In 1995, he came back to Japan to
become an Assistant Professor at the Kunitachi
College of Music, which position he still holds now. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
Hall
Friday, July 22, 18:00 Recital
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Shuhei Isobe |
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Born in Tokyo, and was introduced to
the clarinet at the age of 13 by Mr. Tetsusaburo
Hirai. Graduated from Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music, and received master degree,
having studied with late Risei Kitazume, late Kunio
Chiba and late Katsusuke Mishima. While learning
there, awarded the Ataka Award. After graduation,
studied with Yuji Murai and also R. Jettel at the
workshop in Salzburger. He was assigned principal
clarinetist of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and in
1983, joined the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Studied in
Berlin from l988 with A. Brandhofer. Gave a recital
at the International Clarinet Festival in 1994 held
in Chicago. He has performed as soloist with
orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra,
Tokyo Philharmonic, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Now
he is active as a principal clarinetist of NHK
Symphony Orchestra, lecturer of Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music, and specially
appointed professor at Toho College of Music, while
a board member of the Japan Clarinet Society. |
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Thursday, July 21, 18:15 Recital
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Saturday, July 23, 13:00 Conference
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Kazumi Itani |
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Graduated from Osaka University of
Music in 2003. In the same year, she won the 3rd
prize at the Takatsuki Music Competition. She took
part in the Daitoh Music Festival, Young Musicians
Division. In 2004, she also took part in the 23rd
Azelea Recommended Rookie Concert and won the
Encouragement Award. She studied clarinet with
Tetsuo Ogawa and Mitsuko Sugita. Now, she is
teaching at two music schools “Musiekschule Osaka”
and “Sople Music“. She belongs to the Hideaki Iwai
Clarinet Choir. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Hirotaka Ito |
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Born in Kamakura in l968. Began
playing the clarinet at the junior high school band
and continued studying at Senzoku Gakuen College of
Music where he graduated in 1990, receiving the
award for his outstanding achievement. Studied the
clarinet with Akira Tsunoda, Kazuhiko Ikematsu, and
Koichi Hamanaka, and the chamber music with Jun
Date. Now the principal clarinetist of Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Buffet Crampon
Tosca GL. |
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Kei Ito |
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Graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music. Took part in the
“Debut Concert for Rookie Musicians” sponsored by
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Won the first prize in the
Chamber Music Division at the JILA Music
Competition. Won the first prize at the 6th Clarinet
Competition of JCS. His clarinet teachers include
Susumu Sengoku, Hiroyuki Hibino, Masaharu Yamamoto,
Yusuke Noda, Hidemi Mikai and Yuji Murai. He is now
a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
Orchestra. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Concert
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Kelly Johnson |
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The principal clarinetist with the
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Professor
of Clarinet at Arkansas Tech University, a member of
the Etesian Woodwind Quintet that performs regularly
in Arkansas and will tour England in May 2005. Has
performed as recitalist at the 1998 International
Clarinet Association Convention in Ohio, and also
performed at the 1999 International Clarinet
Association Convention in Belgium, where she
released her solo CD titled Clarinet Unlimited,
featuring the clarinet works of Belgian composer
Norbert Goddaer. A 1995 member of the National
Orchestra Institute, she was a national finalist
twice for the MTNA-Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist
Competitions. Received her Master of Music degree in
Clarinet Performance from Arizona State University,
where she served as teaching assistant for the ASU
Clarinet Studio. Selected as Outstanding Graduate
Performance Student in 1994, and completed the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet
Performance from ASU in 1999. Former teachers
include Dr. Robert Spring and Dr. Russell Coleman. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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Hiroshi Kamata |
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Graduated and received master degree
from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music, in l987. While in the University, he was
awarded the Ataka Award. He participated in the
Yamaha Freshman’s Concert, as well as Doseikai
Concert. Gave a recital at the ClarinetFest. Won the
3rd prize at the 1st JCS Competition, and also the
4th prize at the 9th Wind-Percussion Instrument
Competition. Studied the clarinet with late
Kastusuke Mishima and Yuji Murai. Was a memeber of
the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, and now the
member of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. |
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Thursday, July 21, 17:00 Recital
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Yoshinobu Kamei |
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Born in Nagoya in 1976. After studying
at Toho Gakuen High-School Music Department, went to
France to learn at Paul Ducas Conservatoire in l998
and at Aubelvillier la Courneuve National Regional
Conservatoire in l999, both of which he graduated
with unanimous ‘premier prix’ record. Studied the
clarinet with Yoshiyuki Kamei, Seiji Yokokawa,
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Michel Arrignon and Alain Damiens.
Won the Spedidum Prize at Toulon International
Competition, in l997, and the first prize at Japan
Wood-wind Competition in 2003 and other prizes in
Japan. Joined the world tour of “Zingalo Theatre” as
a soloist from 1999 through 2002. Upon return, gave
the first recital in Tokyo in 2004. Now a part-time
instructor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music, and the supervisor of ‘Quintette R’. |
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Kanazawa Clarinet Ensemble |
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People who love to play the clarinet
and those who want to enjoy playing the clarinet
ensembles formed the Kanazawa Clarinet Ensemble in
1999. They hold concerts regularly performing not
only original pieces written for the clarinet, but
also challenging various genres, such as orchestra
and piano pieces. They have won many ensemble
competitions, including that of the National
Competition, organized by All Japan Band Association
receiving the Gold Prize once and the Silver Prize
twice. Also participated in the 1st Clarinet
Ensemble Competition of JCS in 2004 and was awarded
the first prize in thier category and the Parthenon
Tama Prize. They are also playing actively in
various places, visiting nursing homes and other
facilities, while making efforts for improvement
every day. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
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Natsuka Kawai |
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Graduated from Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music (Geidai) in 2003.
While studying in the university, she performed with
Geidai Philharmonia at the Geidai Morning Concert,
and was awarded the Ataka Award. Finalist of the
71st Japan Music Competition, Clarinet Division in
2002. After graduation, joined the Geidai Doseikai
Freshman’s Concert, as well as Yamaha New-Comers
Concert. Studied the clarinet with Mami Mikura,
Masaharu Yamamoto, Yuji Murai and Yoshinobu Kamei,
and the chamber music with Masaharu Yamamoto and
Masashi Yoshida. Now continues her study at the
graduate school of Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts and Music. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Eiji Kitamura |
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Born in Tokyo in 1929. Eiji Kitamura
started clarinet while he was studying at Keio
University. He made his debut as a member of the
Saburo Nambu Quintet, went on to play in the Shotaro
Moriyasu Combo, and formed his own band afterwards.
In 1957, he did a jazz session with Benny Goodman,
who came to Japan as a cultural ambassador. Besides
studying the style of Buddy DeFranco and Lee Konitz,
he also mastered the traditional Dixie Style, and
soon, he gained recognition as one of the top
clarinetists of the era. His deep, rich tone and
unique phrasing have attracted the audience
worldwide and his talk between the pieces is also
very enjoyable. He also made appearances on TV as a
cuisine researcher and even an anchorman. Currently
making regular TV appearance as a commentator. |
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Friday, July 22, 9:30Recital Hall
Friday, July 22, 19:00Concert Hall |
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Chikako Kondo |
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Born in Yokohama. Just graduated from
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
having studied the clarinet with Shuhei Isobe,
Masaharu Yamamoto and Yuji Murai, and the chamber
music with Masashi Yoshida. Has won the Ataka Award
and Akannsus Music Award. Winner of the first prize
and also the Most Outstanding Award at 6th “Concert
Marronier 21” competition, wood-wind section. Also
awarded Buffet Crampon Encouragement Award at
“Euro-Japan Music Workshop”. The 2nd runner-up of
Clarinet section at the 14th Japan Wood-Wind
Competition. In 2004, joined Seiji Ozawa Music Camp
Opera Project V as a member of the orchestra, and
also was involved with ‘JT Assisted Ensemble Series‘
produced by Nobuko Imai and Masaharu Yamamoto.
Played Francaix’s clarinet concerto with the
students’ orchestra, at Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music conducted by Junichi Hirogami. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Wednesday, July 20, 15:00 Conference
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Hisae Kori |
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Graduated from Kunitachi College of
Music and also the graduate school of Toho Gakuen
School of Music, as well as École Normale Malmaison
Conservatoire. Won the 2nd prize at Japan
Wind-Percussion Competition in 1998, 2nd prize at
UFA Paris International Music Competition, and also
nominated as one of the finalists at Japan Wood-wind
Competition in l999. She has studied the clarinet
with Tokio Muramatsu, Koichi Hamanaka, Kazuko
Ninomiya, G. Deplus, F. Heau and M. Arrignon. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Bernhard Kösling |
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Born in the region of North- Rhine, he
got his first lessons from Hans Jürgen Eckmaier. His
professional studies followed at the Musikhochschule
Hannover with Prof. Hans Deinzer. He works as a free
lance player since 1988 in contemporary music with
“Ensemble Köln” and “Musikfabrik Nordrhein-Westfalen”,
and in ancient music on period instruments. He joins
orchestra projects in Bremen and Hamburg, and since
2002 as a member of “Clarimonia” Ensemble and
various chamber music concerts. He is living now in
Oldenburg and combines his playing with teaching
modern and period clarinets, while manufacturing the
light cases for all sizes of clarinets invented by
himself. |
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Thursday, July 21, 15:30 Parnassos
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Naoko Kotaniguchi |
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Born in Hyogo Prefecture. Recieved
master degree from the Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music. In 2000, awarded the Most
Outstanding Award in the Wood-wind Section of the
audition organized by Tokyo’s Nerima Ward Cultural
Foundation, and played with the Tokyo New City
Philharmonic Orchestra. Performed at Yamaha
Freshmen’s Concert, also. In 2001, she won the 2nd
prize at 12th Japan Wood-wind Competition, Clarinet
Division, and the next year, won the 1st prize at
the 14th Takarazuka Vega Competition. She was also
the winner of the first prize at 71st Japan Music
Competition, Clarinet Division. After performing
with the New Japan Philharmonic, joined the Kyoto
City Philharmonic in 2003, in which she has been
playing ever since. Studied the clarinet with Kazuo
Fujii, Yuji Murai and Masaharu Yamamoto. Being one
of the representative young Japanese clarinetists,
she is always active in playing with orchestra, as
well as solo recitals and performance of chamber
music. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 15:00 Recital
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Saturday, July 23, 15:30 Recital
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Kunitachi Clarinet Orchestra |
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This orchestra has forty years of
history since its first foundation based on the
ensemble group directed by late Yukio Ohashi. Its
activity was succeeded by Nagataka Ogasawara, and
since 1995 by Tadayoshi Takeda who started to pursue
wider possibility of the clarinet orchestra and to
enhance its capacity of expressions by introducing
new styles of music to their repertoire. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
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Mami Kuroiwa |
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Graduated from Kunitachi College of
Music. With a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation
in 2001, and the Hokkaido Cultural Foundation in
2002, she went to Paris to continue her clarinet
studies. She graduated from École Normale of Music
in Paris, winning premier prix in clarinet and a
unanimous first prize in chamber music. She won
first prize at the Picardie Competition in 2002 and
the International Music Competition in France in
2003. She was also awarded first prize in the
chamber music division at the same competition. She
is now giving performances as a member of a clarinet
duo “sonaige” and a clarinet ensemble, “Vent du Nord”.
Her clarinet teachers include Koichi Hamanaka,
Tadayoshi Takeda and Guy Deplus, and learned the
chamber music with Akiyasu Miyamoto, Ryohei
Nakagawa, Chantall Debussy. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Concert
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Thursday, July 21, 16:00 Recital
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Im-Soo Lee |
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A soloist and a chamber musician,
co-principal clarinetist of Seoul Philharmonic
Orchestra, graduated from Seoul National University
School of Music and continued his education at
University of Southern California, where he received
Diploma. Now a member of the Korea Festival
Ensemble, while teaching at Yonsei, Ehwa University
music school, and a visiting professor of Dongduk
University school, as well as chairman of ICA Korea.
As the first prize winner of 23rd Dong-A
Competition, he also was awarded the Ye-Eum Award
and Bruce Zalkind Memorial Endowment Award. Has
given recitals in Los Angeles, Berlin, Beijing, and
other cities, and has played as a soloist with Seoul
Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Central Philharmonic
Orchestra and many others. He performed at ICA
congress in Texas, Belgium, New Orleans, Brisbane
and Porto, besides giving master class in Beijing. |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
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Saturday, July 23, 13:00 Recital
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Ching-Chun Lin |
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Received Bachelor of Arts from Tunghai
University, Master of Music from Peabody
Conservatory, and Doctorate from University of
Minnesota as the first Taiwanese to receive it.
Active as principal clarinetist of University of
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, and Union Symphony
Orchestra of Taichung. Awarded fellowship awards
from University of Minnesota and Peabody
Conservatory, and many others. In 1997 invited to
perform with Bergen Woodwind Quintet of Norway in
the United States, and also with Chungli City
Symphony Orchestra, the Hsinchu City Philharmonic
Orchestra of Taiwan, to name the few. Performed as
guest clarinetist for ensemble with the Singapore
Symphony Orchestra members, followed by a solo
recital and master classes at the National
University of Singapore. Formed the Elite Trio in
2001, with Chinese pianist and cellist and visited
all major cities in Taiwan and Singapore. Active
also as educator and researcher, clarinet teacher at
Olson Junior High School in Minnesota and University
of Minnesota music department. Now Associate
Professor at the National Taipei Teachers College in
Taiwan. |
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Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
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Sunday, July 24, 10:00 Recital
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Lee Livengood |
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Currently clarinetist and bass
clarinetist in the Utah Symphony Orchestra, after
playing as a member of the Savannah Symphony
Orchestra. Received a Bachelors Degree from the
Eastman School of Music as a student of Stanley
Hasty, and a Masters Degree at the University of
California at Santa Barbara with Mitchell Lurie. Has
been a member of Tulsa Philharmonic, Fresno
Philharmonic, and the Santa Barbara Chamber
Orchestra, and performed as a chamber musician at
the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Round Top
Music Festival and the Spoleto Festival. Taught
clarinet at Keene State College, the University of
California at Santa Barbara and Georgia Southern
University. Following elections held in July 2004,
Lee is President-Elect of the International Clarinet
Association. Besides performance, he is well known
as a mouthpiece maker and refacer with clients
throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, and
gives regular lectures and classes around the
country about his insights and experience in this
field. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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Luigi Magistrelli |
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Born in S. Stefano Ticino, Italy.
Studied clarinet at the Conservatory of Milan with
Prof. Primo Borali and attended masterclasses with
D. Kloecker, K. Leister and G. Garbarino. Won some
prizes at the Competitions of Genoa and Stresa. Has
performed as soloist with orchestras of ‘Pomeriggi
musicali”, Radio of Milan and others, and also
performed with many chamber groups. Played as
principal clarinet with Sanremo Symphony Orchestra
Milano Classica, Orchester der Jahrhunderte in
Germany and Moldova Radio Sympohony. Has performed
not only in Italy but also in Austria, Belgium, ex
Jugoslavia, France, Nairobi, India, Germany,
Finland, Israel, Mexico, U. S. A Czech Republic,
China and Japan. Recorded 25Cds of chamber music and
solo, including those with Dieter Kloecker and with
“La Scala Philharmonic” conducted by R. Muti, Mozart
Concerto with Karl Leister, and also for Italian
Radio and BBC. Now chairman of the International
Clarinet Society of Italy and Professor of Clarinet
at the Conservatory of Milano, while conducting
masterclasses in Italy, China, Israel, |
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Thursday, July 21, 11:30 Recital
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Eric Mandat |
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Professor of Clarinet and
Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale. In addition to teaching
clarinet and graduate analysis courses, he performs
frequently throughout the United States and abroad
as a soloist and chamber musician. He is a member of
the Transatlantic Trio and the Tone Road Ramblers,
and has performed with the Chicago Symphony's
MusicNOW contemporary chamber music series and the
Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of
Chicago. He is the recipient of a 2000 Illinois Arts
Council Artist Fellowship for Composition, and his
works for clarinet are performed around the world.
He received degrees from the University of North
Texas, the Yale School of Music and the Eastman
School of Music. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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John Masserini |
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Assistant professor of Music and
Woodwind Coordinator at Idaho State University. He
holds the doctor of Musical Arts in clarinet
performance from Michigan State University. His
principal teachers are Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and
professor Keith Lemmons. Has been involved with
several symphony orchestras as a clarinetist and
bass clarinetist, most notably the bass clarinetist
for the 2000-2001 season of Phoenix Symphony.
Performed with orchestras such as Idaho State Civic
Symphony Orchestra, Mid-Michigan Opera Company and
Orchestra of the Americas. Often invited from
universities and clarinet conferences across the
country to perform as concerto soloist, recitalist
and a chamber musician, as well as teaching master
classes, recently to the Westminster Guest Artist
Series, the 5th Contemporary Clarinet Conference at
Michigan State University, and most notably invited
by the International Clarinet Association at the
ClarinetFest 2003 International Conference in Salt
Lake City to perform the world premier work
commissioned. |
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Saturday, July 23, 17:00 Recital
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Kenji Matsumoto |
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After studying at the Kunitachi
College of Music, he graduated from Conservatoire
Supérieur National de Musique de Paris. His teachers
include Akira Tsunoda, Koichi Hamanaka, Kazuko
Ninomiya, Kahori Takemori, Michel Arrignon, Gerome
Julien-Laferrière and Alain Damiens. He has won
prizes at various competitions within Japan and
abroad, including the Japan Clarinet Competition of
JCS and the Toulon International Music Competition.
Currently, he is a clarinetist of the NHK Symphony
Orchestra. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Friday, July 22, 18:00 Recital
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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D. Ray McClellan |
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Acclaimed for “a remarkable technique,
tone and lyricism”, clarinetist D. Ray McClellan is
currently an associate professor of clarinet at The
University of Georgia and a member of the Georgia
Winds. He earned his bachelor, master and doctorate
of Music degrees from The Juilliard School in New
York City where he studied with the internationally
renowned clarinet pedagogue, David Weber. He has
served as principal clarinetist in the Great Woods
Festival Orchestra, Alexandria Symphony and Garden
State Philharmonic. He played concertos with
Symphony Orchestra of Goinia, in Gois, Brazil, The
Queens Philharmonic, The Athens Symphony and many
others. He gives master classes at universities and
conservatories throughout North and South America,
Europe and Asia, while giving recitals and
collaborating with some of the most notable
ensembles in the U. S. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Fabrizio Meloni |
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Has been principal clarinetist of
Milano Theatre of the Scala Symphony and La Scala
Philharmonic Orchestra since l984. Studied at
Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano and graduated
with the most outstanding achievement. Won the third
prize at Munich International Competition and also
at The Prague Spring Music Festival. Played with
many Italian and world orchestras, and also with
world top artists such as Lunguich, F. Gulda, A.
Schiff, E. Gruberova and many others, and joined the
tour of Italia Quintet to the USA and Israel.
Recorded with La Scala Symphony conducted by R. Muti
playing the clarinet concerto by Mozart,which has
been highly acclaimed. He has also been devoting
himself in developing the young artists by
conducting the master class not only in Italy but
also out in Paris, Lyon and other places. |
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Hidemi Mikai |
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Graduated from Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music in 1989. While
studying, he was awarded the Ataka Award. Studied
the clarinet with Koji Kojima, late Yukio Ohashi,
Yuji Murai and Yoshiaki Suzuki, and the chamber
music with Masaharu Yamamoto and Masatake Kaihoko.
In 1991, received the master degree, and joined the
New Japan Philharmonic performing with them as a
soloist for several times. Now the principal
clarinetist of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
Orchestra, while teaching as a parttime instructor
at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
its affiliated highschool, as well as Tokyo Academy
of Music and Toho Gakuen School of Music. At the
same time, he performs as a member of the chamber
orhcestras such as Oiros Ensemble (wood-wind) and
The Clarinet Ensemble. He is also acting as jury of
various competitions. |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Hisashi Mito |
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Graduated from College of Music of
Osaka, and studied at Royal Conservatory of Music
den Hague, the Netherlands, from1992, learning the
historical clarinet with Eric Hoeprich. After
graduation in l994, continued study at Amsterdam
Sweelinck Conservatory learning the modern clarinet
with Pete Hoening. Graduated in l966 having received
the Certificate Diploma from both conservatories,
and joined the concerts and recordings of Paris
Champ-Elysées Wind Ensemble, Tokyo Bach-Mozart
Orchestra and some others, while continuing study
and performance of historical instruments from the
Baroque to Romantic eras. In 2004, released the
first CD titled “Romantic Pieces by Ancient
Clarinet” which enjoyed high critical acclaim.
Planning the concert “Hisashi Mito―Fantasy on
Ancient Clarinet” in the summer 2005. Now board
member of Japan Clarinet Society. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Wednesday, July 20, 16:00 Recital
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Yoko Miyake |
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Graduated from Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music, and recieved
master degree. Studied the clarinet with Takayuki
Gohtsu, Masatake Kaihoko, Katsusuke Mishima and Yuji
Murai, and also with Koichi Hamanaka at the workshop
held in Osaka, in which she joined the completion
concert. While teaching at the music department of
Takamado Highschool in Nara, and the clarinet course
of the music stores, she has been giving series of
concerts for the citizens for ten years. Performed
von Weber’s concertino with Osaka Philharmonic
Orchestra, and joined the ClarinetFest in Belgium
and Sweden as a member of Tokyo Clarinet
Philharmonic in 1999 and 2002. In 2004, played von
Weber’s Clarinet Quintet with Dvorak String Quartet.
Awarded the Encouragement Award at the 1st Settsu
Music Festival in Japan. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
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Ricardo Morales |
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Ricardo Morales was appointed
principal clarinet of The Philadelphia Orchestra by
Maestro Sawallisch in 2002. He is former principal
clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, a
position he assumed at the age of 21. A native of
Puerto Rico, he began his studies at the Escuela
Libre de Musica. He continued his studies at Indiana
University, where he received his Artist Diploma,
and the Cincinnati College Conservatory, He has
soloed with many orchestras as Chicago, Flemish
Radio Symphony, Puerto Rico Symphony and the MET
Orchestra under the baton of James Levine. He
currently serves on the faculties of The Juilliard
School, Manhattan School of Music and the Verbier
Academy in Switzerland during the summer. |
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Yuji Murai |
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After his studies at Sapporo Nishi
High School and Komaba Metropolitan High School in
Tokyo, he graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music. He was chosen as
a Japan-Germany Exchange student and went to study
at the Northwest German Musiek Akademie in Detmold.
He studied clarinet with Jost Michaels, and chamber
music with Helmut Winschermann and passed the
Soloist audition of the Academy in l972. Back in
Japan, he premiered the Concerto by Hindemith at the
subscription concert of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He
has held 17 recitals in Tokyo and is now professor
of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. |
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Thursday, July 21, 18:15 Concert
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Nagoya University of Fine Arts, Clarinet Orchestra |
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The members of this orchestra are the
students of the university’s music department,
majoring clarinet in the String/Wind/Percussion
Instruments & Band Directors Course, as well as
those of clarinet major in the Music Institute for
the graduate students. The goals of the group are to
master the techniques of playing every instrument in
this family, to make research on the compositions
for this style of ensemble, and to appeal to general
public the potential and attraction of the clarinet
ensemble. While pursuing the goals and performing,
they aim at education with emphasis on unity of
members of different ages from the under-graduates
through to the seniors of the graduate school. Also
developing the players who can ‘play in ensemble
with others’ is their important objective. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert
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Mami Nakamura |
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Born in Kobe. After graduating from
College of Music of Osaka, entered L’école normale
de musique de Paris, learning the clarinet and
chamber music, and was awarded the ‘Diplome
supérieur de Concertiste’ in both categories. Also
studied at the clarinet and chamber music
departments of Conservatoire national de region de
Rueil-Malmaison achieving the premier prix, and at
L’école nationale de musique de Creteil with premier
prix of the bassclarinet. Won the first prize at the
UFAM International Competition in l997 in Paris. She
has studied with Koichi Honda, Guy Deplus, Michel
Arrignon and other world-leading clarinetists. While
performing with major orchestras of the world in
France, Italy, Algeria and Japan, she is now active
in teaching, as part-time instructor at College of
Music of Osaka. Also involved with the activity of
the organization named “Amicale” for international
exchange of performance, by producing and appearing
on stage regularly. |
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Sunday, July 24, 12:00 Recital
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Charles Neidich |
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Born in New York, and at the age of
seven started learning the clarinet from his father
and the piano from his mother. Entered Yale
University and learned with Leon Russianoff. After
graduation, studied in Russia given the Fullbright
Fellowship as the very first American student
learning at Moscow Conservatoire under Boris Dikov
and Kirill Vinogradov for three years. Started
performance while in the university, first at the
Geneva International Competition in l979 in which he
won the Silver Prize. Won the grand prix at the
Munich Music Competition and many other awards
followed. Has been the member of Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra, while playing as soloist with Berlin
Braodcasting Orchestra, Swiss Romand Orchestra, as
well as of some orchestras world wide, such as the
Japanese Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Yomiuri
Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Has also been active in
playing with different chamber orchestras and in
recording as well. |
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Thursday, July 21, 10:00 Conference
Room No. 1
Saturday, July 23, 19:00 Concert
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William Nichols |
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William Nichols is a Professor of
Music at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
(USA), and is the principal clarinetist of the South
Arkansas Symphony. An active career in contemporary
music has resulted in numerous premieres including
major works by Donald Martino, Olivier Messiaen, and
Luciano Berio. He was a clarinetist, bassoonist, and
conductor for the Society of New Music of Syracuse,
New York, and has toured with the Manhattan and
Madison String Quartets. He held a Fulbright
Fellowship at the Vienna Academy of Music while
studying with Rudolph Jettel, and received a Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from The University of Iowa,
where he was a student of Himie Voxman. He is the
Audio Review Editor of “The Clarinet” and author of
the journal's long-standing column "Audio Notes." |
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Wednesday, July 20, 13:00 Recital
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Kazuko Ninomiya |
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Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of
Music, and studied in France as a government
scholorship student. Graduated from National
Conservatoire Rouen awarded the premier prix, and
learning with Jacques Lancelot. Since her return,
she has been active in organizing recitals in Tokyo
and Osaka regularly and introducing masterpieces for
clarinet which have little chance to be performed.
Also performed in Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria and so
on. In 2004, she gave masterclasses and concert in
Washington D. C. and in Chaugchun, China. she
adjudicates at various clarinet competitions in
Japan and overseas. Now the member of Tokyo Arts
Ensemble and board member of the Japan Clarinet
Society, while teaching at Toho Gakuen and the
Diploma course at Tokyo Music and Media, Shobi, to
say nothing of performance on stage. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Ikuko Nishio |
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Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of
Music. Winner at the 6th Japan Wind-Percussion
Competition. Studied in France as a French
government scholarship student and graduated from
Paul Ducas Conservatory of Paris, achieving the
Premier Prix. Now the principal clarinetist of Royal
Chamber Orchestra. Studied the clarinet with
Tadayoshi Takeda, Kazuko Ninomiya, Guy Deplus and
Michel Arrignon, and the chamber music with Koichi
Hamanaka and Ryohei Nakagawa. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Hudson Nogueira |
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Born in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Graduating
from Mozarteum Concervatory, clarinet department,
also learning composition with Edomondo Villani.
Played as a soloist at Sao Paolo State Wind
Orchestra for seven years. Released two CDs playing
the saxophone with the bands such as Bissanblass and
also Banda Sabana. Now teaching composition at Tatui
Concervatoire. Being an expert in Brazilian music,
which is said to have more than 200 different kinds
including samba, choro, and folk music from various
regions, his music keeps unique elements based on
them. As he plays both the saxophone and clarinet,
he composes many for the ensemble of these
instruments. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 19:00 Recital
Hall
Thursday, July 21, 9:30 Recital
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Takeshi Nozaki |
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Born in Saitama, Japan. Graduated from
the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music. He studied with late Katsusuke Mishima and
late Kunio Chiba. In 1973, he went to France to
study at the Conservatoires Municipaux de villes de
Paris. His clarinet teachers were Henri Druart, the
former principal clarinet of the Orchestre de Paris,
and C. Desurmont. He graduated there, winning the
first prize and then, studied with the principal
clarinet of the Orchestre Notional de France, Guy
Dangain. After returning to Japan, he joined the
Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Besides his orchestra
activities, he is also performing enthusiastically
in the Tokyo Solisten Concerto Series, Mozart Salon
Chamber Music Series and many others. He is
currently the board member of the Japan Clarinet
Society. |
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Sunday, July 24, 13:40 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Jeffery Olson |
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Jeffery Olson is Assistant Professor
of Clarinet at Valdosta State University. He holds
the degrees of Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of
Music from the Ohio State University and Bachelor of
Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr.
Olson has performed as clarinetist with the Voldosta
Symphony Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of
Columbus, OH, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and
Opera Roanoke, and the Williamsport Symphony
Orchestra. He has taught clarinet and saxophone at
Bucknell University. Dr. Olson has studied clarinet
with James M. Pyne, Glenn H. Bowen, Rusell Dagon,
and James Smith. |
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Friday, July 22, 12:45 Recital
Hall |
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Osaka College of Music, Clarinet Orchestra |
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Founded in l990 and has been active
since then and commemorating the 16th anniversary
this year. Every time when they perform at the
regular concerts, they commission the new
compositions and have introduced so many premieres.
Some journals in this field of culture took up their
performance of such new pieces and they enjoyed high
reputation even as the students’ concerts, thus they
are well known and popular as the clarinet orchestra
representing the Kansai (western Japan) area. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
Hall |
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Ayako Oshima |
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A solo clarinetist and also a chamber
musician. Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music
studied with Koichi Hamanaka and Kazuko Ninomiya.
Studied also at Eastman School of Music and won the
3rd prize at the 3rd Wind/Percussion Competition
(actual 2nd place), and Grand Prix at 55th Japan
Music Competition, as well as the 3rd prize at the
17th Belgrade International Competition. Started
performing activity with the recital at Casals Hall
in Tokyo in 1989, and since then has been active in
playing solo and jointly with orchestras such as New
Japan Philharmonic, Kansai Philharmony, Hiroshima
Symphony and others. Now active as a unique
clarinetist both of the contemporary and historical
clarinet, in Japan, the USA, and Europe, New York as
the center of activities, she teaches as a lecturer
of the Julliard School and assistant professor at
New York State Conservatory of Perchess. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
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Junko Otani |
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Studied clarinet with Seiji Sagawa and
Shigeru Ikushima at Kunitachi College of Music. She
continued her studies at Paris Dukas Conservatoire
and graduated at the top of the list. She also
studied with Carbonare and Guyot. She was the
first-prize winner of the 1st JCS Young Clarinetist
Competition. She studied with Friedli at Geneve
Conservatoire, and graduated there with the most
outstanding prize. She won 3rd prize at the 5th
Japan National Clarinet Competition and 2nd prize at
the 18th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition (no
first-prize winner). She has performed concertos
with orchestras in Prague, Vienna, Linz and other
cities abroad. Besides working as an assistant at
the Geneve Conservatoire now, she is taking part in
concerts of Zurich Opera Orchestra as a trainee. |
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Thursday, July 21, 16:00 Recital
Hall |
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Tomohiko Owada |
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Graduated from Kunitachi College of
Music. He continued his studies at Paul Dukas
Conservatoire graduated there, winning the first
prize. His clarinet teachers include Nobuhiro Koroku,
late Yukio Ohashi, Nagataka Ogasawara, Koichi
Hamanaka, and Michel Arrignon. He received an award
at the 6th Clarinet Competition. He is now
performing actively, playing solo, chamber music and
in orchestras. He is currently a part-time
instructor at the Kunitachi College of Music. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
Hall
Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
Hall |
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Timothy Perry |
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Studied the clarinet at University of
Wisconsin with Glenn Bowen, at Manhattan School of
Music with Leon Russianoff, and also with Keith
Wilson at Yale School of Music. Then he went to
Europe to learn about historical clarinets with Alan
Hacker in York, England, and with Eric Hoeprich in
Amsterdam. He gave a solo recital at ICA Festival in
Paris in 1994 and in Oestende, Belgium in 1999
giving a lecture-recital. His CD recording of Paul
Jeanjean’s “18 etudes de perfectionnement” was
reviewed in The Clarinet in 2003. He is playing with
the group “Trilogy.” |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
Hall |
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Jessica Phillips |
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Jessica Phillips was appointed Second
and E-flat Clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra by James Levine in 2001. She graduated cum
laude from Barnard College, Columbia University and
The Manhattan School of Music with degrees in
Political Science and Music. An active chamber
musician, Ms. Phillips has performed numerous times
in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, including
performances with the MET Chamber Ensemble. During
the 2003-04 season at the MET, in addition to
playing Second and E-flat clarinet, Ms. Phillips
also performed as Principal Clarinet in many of the
productions. Throughout her freelance career she has
worked with the Philadelphia Orchestra, American
Symphony, EOS Orchestra, DiCapo Opera, La Boheme on
Broadway, the Aspen Music Festival, the Meliora Wind
Quintet, and has performed numerous radio and
commercial broadcasts in addition to her appearances
on the “Live From Lincoln Center” broadcasts. In
July 2005, she made her debut appearance at the
Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium along side Ricardo
Morales. Ms. Phillips can also be heard on the
forthcoming recordings by the Philadelphia Orchestra
to be released in the fall. Ms. Phillips is an
Assistant Teacher at The Juilliard School of Music.
She is a Backun and Selmer artist. |
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Picornell-Jagla Duo |
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The Picornell-Jagla Duo was formed in
2001 with the aim of offering original repertoires
for clarinet and piano, focusing on all styles from
classic to vanguard. They have performed in various
Spanish cities and premiered works of different
Spanish composers, some of which were also recorded
and played in Radio Catalunya Musica. They have also
participated in the most important musical events in
Mallorca. The clarinetist, Mr. Tomas Picornell was
born in Mallorca in 1970. Beginning his musical
studies at the age of eight, he soon became a
distinguished student. His first performance as a
soloist with orchestra was at the age of 19, playing
the Concerto No. 2 by C. M. von Weber. From 1996 to
1997, he was the soloist of the Jove Orquestra
Simfonica de les Illes Baleares. He is now a
professor at the Conservatori Professional de Musica
I Dansa de Palma, in Mallorca, where he has his
permanent residence. |
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Sunday, July 24, 10:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Thomas Piercy |
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Thomas Piercy studied at Juilliard,
Mannes College, VCU and Shenandoah Conservatory,
under Gervase De Peyer, Dr. Stephen Johnston, Kalmen
Opperman and Leon Russianoff. He is a critically
acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo
recital and chamber music appearances throughout the
Americas and Europe. Described by The New York Times
as “passionate and pulling out all the stops,”
Piercy performs concerts of classical music,
jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces
written specifically for him and his own
arrangements, compositions and collaborations. He
has performed for Broadway, television, radio, video
and commercial recordings, and has performed at
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center,
the Royal Albert Hall, the Pompidou Centre and other
venues throughout the U. S. and Europe. He performs
on Rossi rosewood English-bore clarinets; Buffet
Prestige clarinets with Opperman mouthpieces and
barrels and handmade reeds. Mr. Rorem, a Pulitzer
Prize and Grammy Award winner, wrote his only
clarinet and piano piece, “Four Colors,” for Mr.
Piercy; the premiere was at a concert celebration
for Mr. Rorem at Carnegie Hall. |
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Saturday, July 23, 14:00 Recital
Hall |
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Spencer Pitfield |
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Spencer Pitfield was born in Kent,
England, but grew up in South Africa. He acquired
his bachelor degree there and a Performer’s Diploma
from the Rotterdams Concervatorium and a Licentiate
Degree from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki,
Finland. In 2001, he completed his Ph. D. in
Performance Practice at Sheffield University. He has
performed solo and orchestra concerts in most
European centers, China, USA, and many South African
countries. He was a featured lecturer at the
ClarinetFest for three consecutive years and in
2001, won first prize in the ICA research
competition in New Orleans. He judged the same
competition at ClarinetFest 2004 and performed and
taught at the University of Maryland. He coached and
performed at Kuhmo Summer Festival in Finland. Since
1997, he has worked in the music department at the
Purcell School of Music, London. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 14:00 Conference
Room No. 1 |
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Michel Portal |
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A solist and chamberist and a multiple
talented musician. As a classical clarinetist he was
awarded the first clarinet prize of the
Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris in 1959,
then those of the Geneva and Swiss jubilee
competitions in 1963, as well as the Grand Prix
National de la Musique in 1983. Plays with Georges
Pludermacher, Christian Ivaldi, Maria Joao Pires,
and many others. Has been involved in contemporary
music and worked with Kagel, Stockhausen, Berio,
Boulez and so on. Often performed with the Ensemble
“Musique Vivante” of Diego Masson, and played
popular improvisation. Regularly appeared with an
American dancer C.Carlson at theaters in Paris,
Helsinki, Hambourg and Lausanne. Absorbed in jazz,
he is surrounded by great European musicians: Texier,
Humair, Solal and so on. He formed the Portal Unit,
which is devoted to free improvisation. He plays
bandoneon and saxophone, too. Also wellknown as a
composer of screen music, and won three Cesar prizes
awarded for “Le Retour de Martin Guerre”, “Les
Cavaliers de l’Orage” and “Champ d’Honneur”. Has won
the Sept d’Or prizes for the greatest telefilm music
for twice. |
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Quattuor Ventus |
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Quattour Ventus is a new ensemble with
members of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville
clarinet studio. The members include Ysabel Sarte, a
graduate student from Santa Rosa, California;
Heather Klenow, also a graduate student from Norway,
Michigan; William Casada, a sophmore from Knoxville,
Tennessee; and Benjamin Gessell, a senior from
Kingston, Tennessee. They are coached by Professor
Gary Sperl. The newly formed ensemble has performed
extensively throughout the state of Tennessee in the
past year and is looking forward to a performance in
Puerto Rico in the fall. |
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Thursday, July 21, 10:00 Recital
Hall |
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Michael Richards |
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Trained as a clarinetist at the New
England Conservatory and Yale School of Music,
earned a Ph.D. at the University of California San
Diego, he has premiered over 150 works for clarinet
throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and
Western Europe. Received a 1990 US-Japan Creative
Artist Fellowship (co-sponsored by the Japanese
Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for
a six-month residency in Japan. Has performed as
soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan
Philharmonic. Currently an Associate Professor of
Music at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, a member of the Tanosaki/Richards Duo since
1982, a founding member of RUCKUS (contemporary
music ensemble in Baltimore). Just ompleted the
second book of extended clarinet techniques with
multimedia package that includes an instructional
DVD, CDs of examples, and an interactive website of
composer, recording, and publisher information. The
Tanosaki-Richards Duo, in its 23rd season of
concertizimg, has commissioned and premiered new
works from numerous composers in the US, Europe, and
Japan including Akira Nishimura. Has given recitals
at major venues and festivals. |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
Hall |
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Antonio Saiote |
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Antonio Saiote is one of the best
Portuguese soloist, Clarinet-Professor and
Conductor. Born in Loures, studied clarinet at the
National Conservatory of Lisbon, and then, continued
his studies in Paris with Guy Deplus and Jacques
Lancelot. In Germany, he obtained the Meisterdiplom
from the Munich Hochschule, where he was a student
of Gerd Starke. He attended conductor seminars with
George Hurst in England. He performed as a soloist
and guest musician with various orchestras and
chamber groups. He has also conducted National
Orchestra of Porto, the Beiras Philharmonic etc. He
has given master classes in various countries and
has been jury president at many competitions. |
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Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
Hall
Saturday, July 23, 13:00 Recital
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Toru Sakamto |
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Graduated from the Period Instrument
Department of Toho Gakuen School of Music. He
continued his studies at the Scola Cantorum in Basel
and the Royal Conservatory Den Haag. He studied
clarinet with late Risei Kitazume, baroque oboe with
Masashi Honma, and Early Clarinet with H. R. Stalder
and E. Hoeprich. In 1993, he won the first prize in
the Ensemble Division of the Bruges International
Ancient Music Competition. He has participated in
many concerts and recordings as a member of “Anima
Eterna Orchestra”. He has also played with early
instrument orchestras around the world, including
“La Petite Band” and “Clemencic Consort”. He makes
all the instruments that he plays, and he is gaining
recognition worldwide as an instrument manufacturer
as well. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 16:00 Recital
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Akira Sakata |
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Born in Kure City, Hiroshima. He
joined the Yosuke Yamashita Trio in 1972 and played
at various festivals, including the Moers New Jazz
Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz
Festival and Newport Jazz Festival. In 1980, he
formed the “Sakata Trio” and toured Europe in 1981.
He also appeared at the Berlin Jazz Festival as the
leader of the “Sakata Orchestra”. He has formed two
bands “mitochondria” and “Harpacticoida” in the
past, and after dissolving them, he is now playing
in various sessions actively as a member of “Sakata
Akira mii”. In 1998, he took part in “the Intricate
Clarinets”. |
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Sunday, July 24, 14:40 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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The Sapphire Trio |
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The Sapphire Trio was formed in 1998
to explore the newly created literature for the
clarinet, violin, and piano trio, bringing to the
concert venue the masterworks that exist in the
repertoire. Clarinetist, Maxine Ramey and violinist,
Margaret Baldridge are on the faculty of The
University of Montana. Only a handful of pieces
existed for this type of chamber ensemble before
1971. The 200 plus works composed since that time,
by leading composers worldwide, are the direct
result of commissioning projects championed by the
legendary Verdehr Trio, mentors of the Sapphire
Trio. The Sapphire Trio is committed to continuing
this legacy, upholding the art of chamber music as
an exciting and dynamic performance genre. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 11:00 Recital
Hall |
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Hiroyuki Sato |
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Started playing the clarinet at the
age of 17. He completed the Music Course at the
Hokkaido University of Education in Sapporo. He also
completed the Diploma Course at Shobi Gakuen
Conservatoire. He is the first-prize winner of the
7th Japan Classic Music Competition. He also won the
first prize at the 1st Clarinet Ensemble
Competition, as well as the supporting companies’
award and Grand Prix. His solo debut concert was
held in 2001. He is now giving performances as a
member of a clarinet duo “sonaige” and a clarinet
ensemble, “Vent du Nord” and “San-nin Ten” which is
an unusual combination of Japanese Calligraphy,
Tanka (Japanese poem with 31 syllables) and a
musical unit. He is also active as a composer and an
arranger. He has learned the clarinet with Daizaburo
Watabe, Koichi Hamanaka, the chamber music with
Hiromasa Iwasaki and Chikako Hashimoto. |
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Monday, July 18, 17:00 Recital
Hall
Thursday, July 21, 16:00 Recital
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Ekkehard Sauer |
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Studied in Hannover as high school
music teacher, under the influence of Hans Deinzer
he came in touch with period clarinet playing.
Working now at a highschool in Osnabrück, he joins
project orchestras as a period clarinet player. |
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Thursday, July 21, 15:30 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Louis Sclavis |
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Born in Lyon in 1953. Began learning
the clarinet with a brass band in his district, then
studied at the Lyon Conservatory. From 1975 to 1988
he worked with the Workshop de Lyon, the Marvelous
Band, and other groups. In this period he met Didier
Levallet and Michel Portal, and also played with
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath and the
quartet of Henri Texier. He formed his first group
“Le Tour de France”. He released first solo
album“CLARINETS”. Awarded the Prix DJANGO REINHARDT,
a prize given to the best jazz musician in France.
Won the “Django d’Or 93”, a title given annually to
the best jazz album in France. Since 1982, he has
regurally worked with the photographer Guy Le
Querrec of the MAGNUM agency in performances
including “De l’eau dans le jazz”, “Oeil de Breiz”,
“jazz comme une image”. He has played with the trio
SCLAVIS/ROMANO/TEXIER (recorded “Carnet de routes”
on Label Bleu), with Joachim Kuhn, and with Ernst
Reijsger (recorded “et l’on ne parle pas du temps”
on FMP), He also worked as a solist for the composer
Fabien Tehericsen. In 1996 won the Grand Prix
National de la Musique from the Ministry of Culture.
His latest album “NAPOLI’S WALLS” was released on
ECM to won the high critical acclaim in France and
overseas. |
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Thursday, July 21, 19:30 Concert
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Jochen Seggelke |
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Born in 1964 in Munich. After studying
at Musikhochschule Heidelberg Mannheim from 1984 to
89, he studied period clarinets at Scola Cantorum
Basiliensis from 1990 to 1992. He was the winner of
the EVO competition in 1988. He founded the “Ottetto
Amsterdam”, playing period instruments. He has been
active with concert tours and CD productions as a
member of “Concerto Köln”, “Orchestre des Champs-Elisees”
and “Akademie fur alte Musik Berlin”. He was the
soloist with “Musica Frankonia Festival Orchestra”
in Nurnberg in 2002. He also founded a clarinet trio
“Clarimonia”, playing period and modern instruments.
After being an apprentice in woodwind instrument
making, he founded Schwenk & Seggelke clarinet
makers and is engaged in reconstructing period
clarinets as well as in developing new clarinet
models. |
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Thursday, July 21, 15:30 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Sendai Clarinet Ensemble |
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The students of Susumu Sengoku of
Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra got together to hold a
concert, and they took this chance to form the
Sendai Clarinet Ensemble for exchanging information
among local clarinetists and for mutual advancement
in 1996. Members consist of professionals, students
either majoring music or others and amateurs. They
get together once a year in August to hold an annual
concert “Sendai Clarinet Summer Concert”. This
concert is in three parts, the solo part, the
ensemble part and the choir part. This year, they
are celebrating their 10th anniversary. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
Hall |
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Senzoku-Gakuen College of Music, Clarinet Orchestra |
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This orchestra was formed in April,
1998, by the students majoring the clarinet at
Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, as their
extra-curricular activity. In 1999, they organized
the first concert at Yokohama Minato-Mirai Hall, and
since then they have regular concert in March every
year. Also this group participates “Joy of Clarinet
Ensemble” held by Japan Clarinet Society every year
since the 7th event. They took part in the
ClarinetFest 2004 in Washington DC, and enjoyed high
reputation. |
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Monday, July 18, 14:00 Concert
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Seiki Shinohe |
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In 1974, graduated from Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music, studied with late
Kunio Chiba, late Kastusuke Mishima and Yuji Murai.
After graduation, studied at Karajan Academy with
Karl Leister, and had the chance to perform with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at their regular
concert and to participate in the Salzburg Festival.
In 1978, he became principal clarinet player of
North-West German Philharmonic Orchestra, and from
1980, has played with the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra
as the principal clarinet. Awarded at the first
International Brahms Competition. He played as a
soloist, as well as chamber music player, sometimes
together with the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra and
North-West German Philharmonic Orchestra as well.
After resigning the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra, he
shifted the base of his activities to Japan, and has
been one of the busiest concert performers in Japan.
Now the principal clarinet of the Yomiuri Nippon
Symphony Orchestra. |
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Thursday, July 21, 17:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall
Sunday, July 24, 14:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall
Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Frank Sidorfsky |
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Studied at Enporian State University
and at the Eastman School of Music from which he
received a DMA degree. His primary clarinet teachers
have been Leopold Liegl, Robert Marcellus, Authony
Gigliotti, and Stanley Hasty. He has taught at James
Madison University and at Kansas State University,
where he attained Emeritus status. He has given
performances on basset horn in fifteen states in the
USA and in Victoria, Canada. |
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Saturday, July 23, 9:30 Recital
Hall |
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Stephan Siegenthaler |
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Stephan Siegenthaler was born in 1957
in Switzerland and has studied at the Music
Academies of Bern with Kurt Weber from 1976 to 1980.
After receiving his certificate, he went to Detmold
in Germany, where he studied with Jost Michaels at
the music academy. From 1984 to 1986, he took
lessons with Thomas Friedly in Geneva Conservatoire.
In 1980, he won the 1st prize at the chamber music
contest in Migros. In 1985, he was the prize- winner
at the international contest of chamber music for
wood instrument in Martigny (Switzerland). From 1990
to 1995, he held the position as a solo clarinetist
in the Biel Symphony Orchestra. He is currently
pursuing his career in chamber music, appearing at
well-known festivals such as the international Music
Festival in Lucerne, and playing with various
eminent musicians and ensembles. |
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Saturday, July 23, 10:00 Recital
Hall |
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Andrew Michael Simon |
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Principal Clarinet of the Hong Kong
Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Simon has won acclaim
on four continents for his brilliant musicianship
and “almost god-like technique” (Auditorium
magazine). Michael Tilson Thomas has noted his
“formidable technique, flair, and musicianship “
while Allan Kozinn of The New York Times compared
him favorably to Benny Goodman. First PrizeWinner of
the International Clarinet Society Competition and
the National Arts Club Competition, the Julliard
School graduate made his début in the Carnegie Hall
Recital Hall in 1989. His Singapore Symphony début
(2002), playing the original version o f Mozart’s
Clarinet Concerto on basset clarinet. Recent
highlights include concerts of Copland’s Clarinet
Concerto with the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony. |
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Friday, July 22, 18:00 Recital
Hall
Saturday, July 23, 10:00 Recital
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Ronald Van Spaendonck |
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Born in 1970, he is one of the most
promising Belgian clarinetists, having won at major
competitions such as the International TROMP
Clarinet Competition, Rome International Wind
Instrument Competition, to name a few. Chosen as
“Artists of the New Generation” by BBC, he was given
the big chance to perform with major orchetras such
as BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as chamber
music recitals at Wigmore Hall, Djanogly Hall, etc.
Also appeared on the stage of Musiekverein Wien,
Concerto Gebouw, Amsterdam and many other
prestigious concert halls. Often invited by Gidon
Kremer, Takaci Quartet and Skampa Quartet as soloist
joining their concert tour to Belgium, England and
Holland. His “French Music for Clarinet and Piano”,
released by Harmonia Mundi, enjoys high critical
acclaim by French music magaziens. Now teaching at
Mons and Brussels Royal Concervatoire. |
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Harry Sparnaay |
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Studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory
with Ru Otto, and after graduating with a
performer's degree for clarinet, specialized in bass
clarinet and won the first prize in the Gaudeamus
Competition in 1972. Has played at numerous music
festivals:Warsaw, Madrid, New York, Naples and many
others, and the ISCM Festivals held in Rotterdam,
Athenes, Amsterdam, etc. Also performed with many
major orchestras including Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Inter
Contemplain, the Israel Symphonietta and BBC
Symphony Orchestra. Concerts were held all over
Europe, North and South America, Australia, Asia and
Israel, performing works written for him, notably
the premiere performance of In Freundschaft by
Karlheinz Stockhausen. In addition, numerous
composers such as Xenakis, Weddington, Harvey, and
Yun have dedicated pieces to him. Founded the Bass
Clarinet Collective (9 bass clarinetists, including
3 double basses), and together with flutist Harrie
Starreveld and pianist Ren Eeckhardt he formed Het
Trio in 1984. Now professor in bass clarinet and
contemporary chamber music at the Sweelinck
Conservatory and the Conservatory of Utrecht, and is
a player of the new model Buffet Crampon. He has
been a jury member at the International Gaudeamus
Interpreters Competition several times and is a
member of the Dutch section of the ISCM. |
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Friday, July 22, 18:00 Recital
Hall
Sunday, July 24, 16:15 Recital
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Rose Sperrazza |
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Assistant Professor of Music at
Northeastern Illinois University since 2004, having
served on the faculty of Harper College, and as a
graduate teaching assistant at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and at Akron University. Performed
with the groups such as Harper Chamber Winds, Opus
Three Woodwind Trio, and with Salt Creek Sinfonietta,
and the NEIU String Orchestra as a featured soloist.
Now regularly performs in the Chicago metropolitan
area. Performed at ClarinetFest 2003 (premiere
performance of Edward Yadzinski’s) and in 2004
Presented clarinet clinics at Harper College,
University of Wisconsin-Madison's Summer Music
Clinic program, and at numerous high schools in
Illinois. She holds Bachelor of Music degree in
clarinet performance from DePaul University, the
Master of Music degree in clarinet from University
of Akron, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was
awarded the Bolz Scholarship, being taught with
William R. Gasbarro, Larry Combs, David Bell, and
Dr. Linda Bartley. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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Robert Spring |
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Was president of the International
Clarinet Association from 1998-2000. Has performed
for over 11 International Clarinet Association
conventions, and hosted the 1995 International
Clarinet Association ClarinetFest at Arizona State
University. Being described as “one of this
country’s most sensitive and talented clarinetists”
(Arizona Republic), and “dazzled his audience. . .
flawless technique” (The Clarinet Magazine). The
Instrumentalist Magazine writes of his recording,
“Dragon’s Tongue”, The America Record Guide writes
of his Copland Clarinet Concerto, “... phrasing is
elegant swing highly effective in the introduction
and in the bridge to the jazzy finale, that feels
like an improvised jam session.” He has performed
worldwide and published numerous articles on
multiple articulation and other contemporary
clarinet techniques. Professor of Clarinet at
Arizona State University and principal clarinet of
the ProMusic Chamber Orchestra of Columbus and plays
Buffet Greenline Clarinet exclusively. |
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Saturday, July 23, 14:00 Recital
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Håkon Stødle |
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Born in 1942 in Indre Billefjord,
Finnmark, Norway. Associate Professor of Clarinet
and Dean at Tromsø University College, Music
Conservatory, with study on “The Clarinet in
Norwegian Music up to 1830”. Studied with Richard
Kjelstrup, David Weber, Jacques Lancelot, and Ib
Eriksson. Has made numerous recordings in Norwegian
Radio and TV, while giving recitals all over Norway
as soloist and chamber musician, as well as in
Russia, Brazil, USA, Japan and other countries.
Soloist with Archangel State Chamber Orchestra,
Petrozavodsk State Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian
Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, etc., and principal
clarinetist of orchestras such as Tromsø Symphony
(1987-1996), North Norwegian Symphony, and Finnmark
Symphony. Made world premiers of several dedicated
compositions, some of them at two of the
International Clarinet Association's Clarfest (1987
and 1997). Recorded "Music of the North" with
North-Norwegian Symphony. Has been assistant
professor of Musicology at Oslo University. |
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Tuesday, July 13, 19:00 Recital
Hall
Friday, July 22, 9:30 Recital
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Yoshiaki Suzuki |
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Born in Tokyo and graduated from the
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and
received master degree. He won the first prize in
the wind division at the 37th Japan Music
Competition. His clarinet teachers include late K.
Mishima, late K. Chiba and late R. Kitazume. In
1981, he went to the US to study with R. Marcellus,
the former principal clarinetist of the Cleveland
Orchestra. He joined the Tokyo Philharmonic
Orchestra, and then, the former Japan Philharmonic.
He took part in the foundation of the New Japan
Philharmonic in 1972, and was the principal clarinet
there. He is also active in the field of
contemporary music and chamber music. He now teaches
at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music. |
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Sunday, July 24, 14:40 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Tadayoshi Takeda |
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Graduated from Kunitachi College of
Music in 1975. He went to France to study with
Jacques Lancelot at the National Conservatory in
Rouen. He graduated there, winning the first prize.
He won the first prize at the Paris Bellan
Competition and also won the first prize at the 47th
Japan Music Competition in 1978. He took part in the
35th Geneva International Music Competition and won
the Bronze Medal, becoming the first Japanese to
receive an award. He has a wide range of repertoires
from baroque to contemporary music. He is a
professor at the Kunitachi College of Music and a
part-time instructor at the Elizabeth Conservatory
in Hiroshima, and was a guest instructor to conduct
a master class at Paris Conservatoire arranged by
Michel Arrignon in 2004. He is regarded as one of
the few performers/instructors who can pass on the
proper French school style. |
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Friday, July 22, 13:45 Recital
Hall
Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Masahiro Takigawa |
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Born in Osaka in 1960. Studied the
clarinet with Mitsugi Kida and Hideaki Iwai.
Graduated from Osaka University of Education, Music
Department. Also learned the clarinet at
International instrument school in Osaka with Koichi
Hamanaka. Once taught at school but his passion
toward jazz was strong enough to guide him to become
a professional jazz clarinetist. While Osaka was the
place where Dixie and New-Orleans jazz enjoyed heat
popularity, he began pursuing the modern jazz,
focusing on Buddy DeFranco, and in 1995 awarded the
Seiji Nakayama Jazz Award, followed by the session
by two clarinets with Eiji Taniguchi at a live spot
in the middle of Tokyo, causing a sensation among
Tokyo fans. His first album as leader titled
“Masahiro Takigawa” was released in 2000. |
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Friday, July 22, 19:00 Concert
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Eiji Taniguchi |
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Born in Fukuoka in 1968. Eiji
Taniguchi’s performing activities started while he
was in Waseda University, and he started to draw
attention as a modern-swing style soloist. He formed
his own group and held live concerts, made CD’s, and
attended various events abroad, including the
Concord Jazz Festival. His musical style is a
mixture of orthodox style and contemporary sense,
which allows him to play a wide range of
repertoires, such as modern, jazz, big band, brass
band, classis, and folk music. He has played with
many top players in Japan and abroad to broaden his
musical sphere. He is currently active as a studio
musician, composer, arranger and a DJ for a radio
program. He is also a member of the faculty at the
Senzoku Gakuen University. |
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Friday, July 22, 19:00 Concert
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Thelema Trio |
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Thelema Trio has offered in their
young career concerts in three continents,
exploiting its unusual combination beyond their
limits. Composers from the Netherlands, Germany,
Argentina, Italy, Belgium, Iceland, Peru, Denmark,
Finland, Israel and USA have written works
especially for them. Other works are sent to them
from all over the world to have a Belgium or even
European premiere. The center figure of this trio is
Marco Antonio Mazzini. He studied at the National
Conservatory of Peru and then moved onto Belgium in
1999 to receive his master degree in clarinet,
chamber music and improvisation. Working with
avant-garde, jazz, free improvisation, electronics
or folk music, this ensemble is open for every new
challenge. |
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Sunday, July 24, 13:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Dallas Tidwell |
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Associate Professor of Clarinet at the
University of Louisville. He served as associate
principal and second clarinetist with the Louisville
Orchestra for 27 years. During that time he was
featured as soloist with the Louisville Orchestra in
concertos by Dan Welcher and Frederick Speck. Has
also has served as principal clarinetist with the
Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, Louisville Bach
Society, and the Lake George (New York) Opera. He
has been an active chamber performer for the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, Gerhard Chamber Festival
(Alabama), Lake George Chamber Festival, and is a
founding member of the Kentucky Center Chamber
Players, now in their 21st season. He recently
toured Japan with the Louisville String Quartet as
part of the University of Hirosaki Chamber Music
Festival. He has given recent recitals in the
Louisville region, North Carolina and Minnesota. He
can be heard on the following labels: Centaur, First
Edition Records, Arizona University Press, d’NOTE,
Koch and Troy. He holds undergraduate and graduate
degrees from the University of Louisville. His
principal teachers have included James Livingston,
Larry Combs, Jerome Stowall, George Silfies, and
Richard Nunemaker. |
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Thursday, July 21, 12:15 Recital
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Masashi Togame |
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Born in Hiroshima, and started
learning the violin at the age of eight, and the
clarinet when he was fifteen. Graduated from Tokyo
University of Fine Arts and Music and its Graduate
school, learning the clarinet with late Katsusuke
Mishima and the chamber music with Ryohei Nakagawa.
While in the graduate school, joined the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra, in which he is the principal
clarinetist now. Joined the performance of “Music
Today” produced by Tohru Takemitsu, recorded four
albums with the members of The Clarinet Ensemble,
and other activities aside from the orchestra
performance. Active beyond the limit of classic
music by joining the group led by an accordionist
Coba, for the tour to Europe and recordings, for
example. Published “Guide to Playing the Clarinet”.
Now teaching at the universities of Seitoku and
Musashino, while acting as judge at Japan Music
Competition, Clarinet Section. |
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Monday, July 18, 13:00 Concert
Hall
Tuesday, July 19, 17:00 Recital
Hall
Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
Hall
Sunday,
July 24, 16:15 Recital
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Tokyo Clarinet Choir |
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This is a clarinet orchestra formed in
1986 upon Yukio Inagaki’s proposal by
non-professional, hobbyist players, and has been
active by his own conducting. There are about fifty
members who have diverse background of life, some
being company employees, students, graduates of
musical colleges, etc. They play only the clarinet
and have repertoire with full variety, from the
piano pieces to symphonies, performing at the
regular concerts, mini-concerts named “TCC
Presents”, and making different ensemble
presentations, instruments at various events. They
made four concert tours to Vienna, besides the trip
to Belgium and domestic tours. Furthermore,
promotion activities have been emphasized by
cooperation with other clarinet ensemble groups. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert Hall |
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Tokyo Clarinet Philharmony |
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Tokyo Clarinet Philharmony was
established in 1980 by clarinet players who are not
only fond of its sound but also interested in
developing its technique under Masatake Kaihoko’s
direction. All the members received a bachelor’s
degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music. Every summer they organize and teach at a
camp in Mt. Zao in Yamagata prefecture (northern
Japan) where they also have concerts. In 1982 they
accomplished their first recording and also
completed compact disc recording in 1996. TCP was
invited by ClarinetFest in Ostend, Oklahoma and
Stockholm and enjoyed good reputation. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 10:15 Recital
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Atsuki Tsutsumi |
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Studied at Wienna National University
and was awarded the most outstanding diploma.
Studied with Takafumi Komatsu, P. Schmieder and
Koichi Hamanaka. After performing at the Reimond
Opera Theater and with Righeti Wood-Wind Quintet,
returned to Japan and has been active as
representative of Mock Wood-Wind Quintet and
director of JWE. Now a member of Nippon Federation
of Musicians. |
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Saturday, July 23, 18:00 Recital
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Kazutoki Umezu |
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Started professional career while
attending at Kunitachi College of Music, with the
bands named “Life-Improvement Committee” (‘70s) and
“D. U. B. (Dr. Umezu Band)” (‘80s). With the band
“RC Succession”, he made his popularity solid and
stable. Also he produces collaborations with other
genres of music in performance, recordings, etc. ,
not only in Japan but in Europe and America, gaining
critical acclaim as “an incredible improviser
handing the reed instrument freely. ” Expanded the
activity in Asia recently, leading several groups.
His tour to Africa in l999 motivated to organize the
group “Dr. Umezu KIKI Band” which is joined by the
members, M. Kinu, T. Hayakawa and K. Araida, who can
bring in new and modern, as well as broad and solid,
sounds to the music they have created. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 17:00/19:00 Recital
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Una Voce |
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The clarinet quartet, Una Voce, was
formed in 2002 at the University of North Carolina
in Greensboro where they are coached by Kelly Burke.
Originating from Florida, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, and Texas, the members were brought together
through a common pursuit of graduate studies and a
love of chamber music. Una Voce commissioned and
premiered Caricatures for Clarinet Quartet, by
Carlos Velez, at the University of Cincinnati,
College-Conservatory of Music in March 2004. |
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Sunday, July 24, 10:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Uzel Ametist Clarinet Quintet |
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This quintet was founded in 1996 by
the students of Istanbul University State
Conservatory with the purpose of introducing the
chamber music repertory for clarinet. Their debut
was in 2000 as they were successful in the audition
of “Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts” and
gave a concert in the 28th International Istanbul
Music Festival. The same year they became the second
runner-up in the “Young Performers Chamber Music
Competition” organized by ANACEV. The group’s
reputation has spreaded very fast and they became
“The first chamber music assemble” to be invited to
the “Young Stars” series of Is-Sanat Concert Hall.
Since 1999 the group has been active and had many
awards and participations in music festivals in
Turkey, as well as in the countries such as
Slovenia, Pakistan, Estonia, Lithuenia, Latvia,
France, Germany, and Turkmenistan in 2005. The group
creates their own compositions and arrangements
enhancing their repertoire, while having a very wide
range of repertoire of classical pieces of different
eras, as well as arrengement of folk, jazz or
popular music. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 13:00 Recital
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Stephan Vermeersch |
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Studied the clarinet, bass clarinet,
saxophone and chamber music with great distinction
at the Lem-Music Institute, Leuver, Belgium and the
Royal Conservatory. As a soloist he performs
regularly contemporary pieces in the Benelux and was
invited to perform at contemporary festivals in
Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia and Lithuania. He is
soloist with the Rajhans Orchestra (worldwide
orchestra) performances in India (Delhi, Bombay,
Bangalore, Madras), Pakistan (Islamabad, Lahore,
Karachi), USA (New York), UK (London), the
Netherlands, Belgium and France. He is a member of
the contemporary clarinet quartet, Ebony Quartet,
performing in the Benelux, Sweden, Ukraine, Mongolia
and Lithuania. |
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Sunday, July 24, 13:00 Parnassos
TAMA Schubert Hall |
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Dominique Vidal |
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Dominique Vidal has studied with Guy
Deplus, Maurice Bourgue and Christian Larde. The
National Superior Conservatory of Paris unanimously
gave him the first prize in clarinet and chamber
music. He has won the grand prize at international
competitions in Paris, Rome, Belgrade, Toulon, and
Acanthes. He also received the Claude Debussy
Competition Grand Prize, the Parisian Artists and
Chamber Musicians Guild Grand Prize and has been
honored by the Philip Morris Musical Action
Foundation. He has taken part in many festivals,
masterclasses, training programs for young musicians
and lectures in France, Italy and Taiwan. As a
diverse performer, he has been part of numerous
international festivals. In Ville d’Avray, he is
part of the Atelier Musique and a member of the
Chamber Orchestra directed by Jean Louis Petit. His
recordings have received “Best Disc of the Year” (Le
Monde 1994) record prize of Academie Charles Cros,
the Diapason d’or. |
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Friday, July 22, 17:00 Recital
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Vintage Quartet |
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The Vintage Quartet is formed by four
young Portuguese clarinettists, since 2001. Its
music goes since Old Music, passing for Baroque,
Contemporary, until Folk Music from different
countries. This Quartet participated in the most
important Portuguese Festivals of Music and in some
chamber music competition. In order to explore some
idiomatic possibilities of clarinet, Iva Barbosa,
Cândida Oliveira, José Eduardo Gomes and Ricardo
Alves, play with different types of clarinet: Eb,
Bb, Cor Basset and Bass, and with two
percussionists. Above all, the Vintage Quartet
intends to create a new sound, capable to provide
true moments of music. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:00 Recital
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Robert Walzel |
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Director of the School of Music at the
University of Utah, having served in a similar
capacity at Sam Houston State University, Texas. He
had also served on the faculty for eleven years at
Texas Tech University and as Principal Clarinetist
of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Active as a
soloist and chamber musician, appearances have
included those with Ensemble of Santa Fe, Dallas
String Quartet, Texas Clarinet Consort, for the
Performing Arts in Houston, and so on. From major
symphony orchestras to jazz and commercial music, he
has performed extensively nationally, as well as
internationally in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central
America. Toured with Steven Glaser as an Artistic
Ambassador for the United States Information Agency.
The duo has also released a CD as well. Festival
Coordinator for ClarinetFest '97, and currently
serves as Immediate Past President for this
organization. Also served on the Board of Directors
of the Texas Association of Music Schools. Holds the
D.M.A. degree from the University of North Texas and
the M.M. and B.M. degrees from the University of
Houston. |
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Friday, July 22, 10:30 Recital
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Eva Wasserman-Margolis |
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Born in USA and received Masters
Degree in Music Performance at the University of
Illinois. Became principal clarinetist of Haifa
Symphony in Israel at age 23. Organized the first
Israeli International Clarinet Festival in 1998, and
served as National Chairperson for the International
Clarinet Association in Israel. First clarinetist to
represent Israel at the International Clarinet
Festival in 1999 in Belgium. Travels to the USA and
Europe as performer/clinician. Performed in Chang
Chun City, China at the International Clarinet and
Saxophone Festival in 2004, receiving an honorary
professorship from Jilin College of Arts. Recorded
CDs, “Two Clarinets and Piano;original Music from
Finland, Malta, Israel and points in between,” and
others. Her book “Learning Clarinet the Artistic
Way” is the first clarinet method book published in
Hebrew, and “Time for Tone” is published in five
languages. Her compositions “The Generation of Hope”
and “Ode to Odessa” are published. Now the main
instructor at the Conservatory of Givatayim and
Petach Tikva. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 14:00 Conference
Room No. 1
Thursday, July 21, 11:30 Recital
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Michel Webster |
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Associate Professor of Clarinet and
Ensembles at Rice University’s Shepherd School of
Music in Houston, and Artistic Director of the
Houston Youth Symphony. Formerly principal
clarinetist with the Rochester Philharmonic and the
San Francisco Symphony, he has appeared as soloist
with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia
Orchestra and the Boston Pops. He has performed at
the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Chamber Music
West and Northwest, Norfolk, Victoria, Stratford,
Domaine Forget, Angel Fire, Steamboat Springs, Park
City, Sitka, and Skaneateles. With his wife, flutist
Leone Buyse, he plays in the Webster Trio with
pianist Robert Moeling and in the Webster Trio Japan
with Chizuko Sawa. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 11:00 Recital
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Nathan Williams |
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Earned the Artist Diploma with highest
honors from the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in
Vienna, as well as graduate degrees from the Eastman
and Juilliard schools, having studied with Stanley
Hasty. Has been the instructor of clarinet at the
Interlochen Arts Academy since 2001, and was also
named Visiting Associate Professor at Michigan State
University's School of Music. Has given recitals and
chamber music performances throughout the United
States, eastern part of Europe and China. Prize
winner in Rotterdam's International Gaudeamus
Interpreters Competition for performers of
contemporary music, the Eastman Concerto Competition
and others. He has been a resident artist at the
Banff Centre in Alberta and a fellow at the
Tanglewood Music Center, where he won the
C.D.Jackson Award presented by Maestro Seiji Ozawa.
Hailed by critics as "outstanding for his
musicality, breath control, robust, and brilliant
tone, and flawless technique" (EI Nuevo Dia Domingo,
San Juan) and has received critical acclaim for his
CD recordings An expert of contemporary music and
several solo and chamber works were committed to him
from Robert Maggio, Scott McAllister, to name the
few. Has taken part in world-premiere recordings and
performances of New York Guild of Composers, the
Austrian Composers Foundation, etc. Former principal
clarinetist of Winston-Salem Symphony. |
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Saturday, July 23, 14:00 Recital
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Masaharu Yamamoto |
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In 1972, he won the first prize at the
41st Japan Music Competition, wind division. In
1973, he graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music with the honour of
the Ataka Prize. After that, he entered the
Nordwestdeutsche Musik Akademie (Detmold) to study
further with Jost Michaels. He passed the
Konzertexamen with top honours. In 1975, he joined
the “Die Düsseldorfer Symphoniker” as solo
clarinettist. In 1976, he won the second prize at
the Colmar International Chamber Music Concours
(France), woodwind trio division, with Fumiaki
Miyamoto (oboe) and Koji Okazaki (Bassoon). In 1980,
he took a “Kammermusiker“‘s title from the city of
Düsseldorf. He returned to Japan in 1983.
Participated in such as the Kiso Music Festival, the
Kurashiki Music Festival and the Miyazaki Music
Festival. Member of the Master Wind Players, the
Japan Chamber Orchestra and the Clarinet Ensemble.
He appears various ranges of performance activities,
including solo, chamber music, and orchestra
performance. Currently, he is the principal
clarinettist of the New Japan Philharmonic,
professor of the Musashino Academia Musicae, and
lecturer of the Nihon University College of Art. He
uses Buffet’s Tosca. |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
Hall
Thursday, July 21, 18:15 Recital
Hall
Saturday, July 23, 19:00 Concert
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Sunday, July 24, 19:00 Concert
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Min-Ho Yeh |
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Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the
University of Central Arkansas (USA). Graduated from
National Taiwan Normal University (BA), New England
Conservatory in Boston (MM), and Indiana University
(DM). Learning with James Campbell, Thomas Martin,
and Wei-Leng Chen. Was a member of the Asian Youth
Orchestra (1990), Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
(1992-95), and The Magic Clarinet Quartet (1994-95),
and performed with the Indianapolis Chamber
Orchestra, Camerata Orchestra (IN), Arkansas
Symphony Orchestra, and Pine Bluff Symphony (AR).
Now principal clarinet of the Conway Symphony
Orchestra (AR) and a member of Sunaura Woodwind
Trio. Has performed at festivals such as the Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival (1997), the ClarinetFest in
Utah (2003), and the Taiwan Connection Music
Festival (2003, 2004). Invited to perform also in
Boston, San Diego and Seattle as part of the
Taiwanese-American Heritage Week concerts. His
performance with the New England Conservatory
Symphony Orchestra and solo/chamber performances at
the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, NY, were
acclaimed highly by the press. He has also appeared
on radio in Canada and USA, as well as recordings
with Trio Indiana, compositions of John Zorn, and
Contemporary American Wind Music with the NEC Wind
Ensemble . |
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Thursday, July 21, 13:00 Recital
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Yokohama Clarinet Choir |
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Formed in 1982 according to the
proposal of late Kazuhiko Ikematsu, who was a
clarinetist himself. This group is pursuing
diversified possibility and attractiveness of
ensemble with the instruments of the same family,
that will not be possible by solo or ensemble of
different instruments. Its repertoire varies quite a
lot from the concerto by Molter and Stamitz to
commissioned contemporary music, from baroque to
modern, from the works for string ensemble,
symphonies to organ pieces. Their concept and
capability were recognized internationally by their
guest performance at International ClarinetFest in
l986. Since 1991, they have been performing as
solisten, following the founder/conductor,
Ikematsu’s will, giving the regular concerts twice a
year, Christmas concerts, appearance on NHK FM
radio, etc. |
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Saturday, July 23, 11:00 Concert
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Céleste Zewald |
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Céleste Zewald studied the clarinet at
the Conservatory of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
first with Herman Braune, then with George Pieterson.
Her diplomas, including the Soloists’ Diploma, were
awarded with special distinctions for technique,
musicality and performance. Zewald participated in
masterclasses by Karl Leister, Hans Deinzer, Paul
Meyer and Charles Neidich. At the “Vriendenkrans”-competition
2001 of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, she won the first prize, as
well as almost all other prizes, including the
audience prize and the Press Award. In 2002, Céleste
Zewald was awarded the Philip Morris Award, and she
was invited to perform all over Europe and at
Carnegie Hall, New York, in the prestigious concert
series “Rising Stars”. For these concerts she will
play a new work for clarinet and piano composed by a
Dutch composer Robin de Raaff. Now a substitute
solo-clarinetist for Het Brabants Orkest, and a
member of various chamber-music groups, with whom
she has recorded several CDs, while teaching at the
conservatories of both Amsterdam and Utrecht. |
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Tuesday, July 19, 13:00 Recital
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Michiyoshi Inoue |
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Born in Tokyo in 1946. Studied with
Hideo Saito at Toho Gakuen School of Music. In l971,
he won the Grand Prix at the Guido Cantelli
Conductors Competition, organized by the Teatro la
Scala, Italy. Made debut in Japan in 1976 by
conducting the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. He
worked with New Zealand National Philharmony
Orchestra as a principal guest conductor from 1977
to 1982, the New Japan Philharmonic as music
director from 1983 to 1988, with which he was back
as a principal guest conductor for three yeas from
2000, and also with Kyoto City Symphony Orchestra
from 1990 to 1998 as music director and the resident
conductor. He conducted the Chicago Symphony at
their subscription concert in l993, and was invited
again in 1994, while conducting regularly the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra of London. Besdies these, he
has worked with various orchestras such as Munchener
Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, to
name just two. |
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Sunday, July 24, 14:00 Concert
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Japan Chamber Orchestra |
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This is a supreme ensemble group
formed by leading members of major orchestras in
Tokyo metropolitan area, together with those who are
active as soloist. There are 20 members who play the
string instrument or the wind instrument. The
concept of this orchestra is “to play without the
conductor”, that is only possible by such selected
members led by Tatsuya Yabe as the concertmaster.
Since 1999, the orchestra has been playing regularly
at Parthenon Tama Concert Hall, supported by the
Tama-City Cultural Foundation. Their repertoire is
diverse, ranging from Baroque to modern and
contemporary music, from the chamber music to full
orchestra pieces. The versatility of expression,
from the dynamic to delicate and individualistic, is
the great advantage of this orchestra, and they
choose to play concertos with the soloist from its
own members. Furthermore, they often choose works of
the 20th century for their repertoire. The CDs
released so far have been highly acclaimed, also. |
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Saturday, July 23, 19:00 Concert
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Orchestra “Strofinare” |
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This orchestra was founded in 2002 by
the volunteer students who were the fleshman Toho
Gakuen School of Music, String Department. The name
of the ensemble came from the Italian word meaning
‘to polish’, reflecting the members’ wish of
pursuing the spirit of music and improving toward
the higher goal. In 2003, they made pre-concert by
the string orchestra and the chamber ensemble
inviting Francesco de Angellis and Francesco di
Rosa, who are the principal violinist and the
principal oboe player, specifically, of the Teatro
Scala di Milano, thanks to great effort of Chikara
Iwamura, the asst. conductor of NHK Symphony
Orchestra. In 2004, their debut concert was held at
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, conducted by Mr. Iwamura,
to a great success. Also in April 2005, their joint
performance with Amadeus Choir enjoyed critical
applause. |
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Violin: Mamiko Amemiya/Chika Edanami/Issei
Hatakeyama/Natsuko Hosokawa/Kana Imai/Keiko Kageyama/Tsukasa
Kasuya/Reiko Kato/Natsu Kuriyama/Rei Kuroda/Tomoe
Mihara/Mari Sakai/Madoka Satsuki/Ruri Sugiyama/Munehisa
Takahashi/Mayuko Takase/Kiwako Tominaga/Hana
Ushigusa/Yasuko Yokota
Viola: Natsumi Echigo/Teiko Matsunuma/Mariya
Mori/Kaori Muramatsu/
Ayaka Notomi/Hiroko Tominaga
Cello: Aki Kitajima/Yoriko Miyake/Sumiko Mizuno/Mei
Takeda
Contra bass: Keita Tadokoro/Kou Watanabe
Flute: Chiaki Takase/Mariko Noguchi
Oboe: Yoshio Uehata/Makoto Kuroda
Fagot: Nobuko Morita/Megumi Sato
Horn: Kazuya Inomata/Ai Sakamoto |
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Chikara Iwamura |
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Assistant conductor of NHK Symphony
Orchestra. Graduated from Waseda University, Science
and Engineering Department, majoring electronic
communication technology, and also from Toho Gakuen
School of Music. Learned with Hideomi Kuroiwa,
Taijiro Iimori, Seiji Ozawa and R. Schumacher.
Having the base of activities both in Italy and
Japan, he conducts the orchestras such as Hungary
Symphony, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony,
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and many other Japanese
and also overseas orchestras, and is highly
acclaimed. Has won prizes at various competitions
such as the grand prix at Master Players Conductors
Competition. Since 2001, he has been invited to
Zagleb Contemporary Music Festival, Barley Symphony
Orchestra’s special concert, to name a few,
expanding the area of his activity throughout the
world. He conducted the NHK Symphony’s subscription
concert in 2003 which was a great success. |
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Naoko Endo |
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Graduated from Toho
Gakuen School of Music and completed the master
course. Has participated in many concerts and
festivals. Has been active as an official
accompanist at the summer seminar of Eastman School
of Music since 1999, for Hamamatsu International
Wind-instrument Academy, clarinet class since 2001,
and from 2003, she is playing as the pianist for
Japan Horn Society. Many artists request her as
accompanist relying on her piano techniques and
musicianship. Presently contracted as playing staff
at Toho Gakuen School of Music. |
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Naoko Ishibashi |
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Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of
Music learning the piano with Yoko Kitamura and
piano accompaniment with Henliette Puig Roger. After
graduation, started the performance activity as an
ensemble pianist appearing on NHK Broadcasing
education programs, NHK FM radio, NHK BS televition
and so on. Also active in CD recordings. Awarded the
most outstanding co-performance award for three
times at Japan Flute Competition (now Lake Biwa
International Flute Competition). Started career as
the official pianist of various competitions in
1996, such as International Oboe Competition since
1997, Kobe International Flute Competition since
2001, and many others. Also participated in music
festivals such as Hamamatsu International
Wind-Instrument Festival, in Japan and overseas,
being relied on and trusted by many artists. |
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Yuki Nakajima |
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Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of
Music and studied at Lyon Conservatoire Supérieur
Nationale and received the diploma in piano and
chamber music. In 1982, awarded the Silver Award (no
Gold Award winner) at PTNA Young Pianist
Competition, and after qualified by NHK freshmans’
audition in 1999, played at the debut recital on FM
radio, won the first prize of piano section at
Takarazuka Vega Competition, and also awarded the
Most Outstanding Pianist Award at Maurice Ravel
Academy in France in l997. In 1999, performed Mozart
piano concerto with Auvergne Chamber Orchestra of
France. Now besides being an accompanist for Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music, active
in performance at various concerts and events.
Learned the piano with Etsuko Ichida, Miyoko Y.
Goldberg, Haruko Seki, P. Pontier and J.F. Esseere. |
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