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PRIORITY CLARINET AND MUSIC EVENTS 2016
June 2017 Newsletter
JUST RELEASED!
A new Stanley Drucker Heritage Collection of Five CDs covering over 46 years of Live Performances of Chamber Music and Recitals HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED and a must have for all Clarinetists. Of special interest is that the broad range of Solo, Recital and Chamber repertoire was selected by Dr Drucker himself spanning over four decades of live concerts performed outside the New York Philharmonic. Given the incredible history of 61 years in the Philharmonic and his Concerto accolades this collection should be an inspiration to hear. If you pre-oder now, Dr Drucker will autograph 35 CD sets for WKA members. For more information and to order contact: www.digitalforce.com/StanleyDrucker
31 May - 3 June 2017
Giocoma Mensi International Clarinet Competition
Breno (MS) Italy
31 May - 4 June 2017
Henri Selmer Paris Summer Clarinet Academy at Michigan State University - VIP Guy Yehuda, Director
East Lansing, Michigan
Artist Faculty as linked here: https://henriselmeracademy.com/index.php/program/faculty/
Guy Yehuda - Director and East Lansing Symphony
Stephen Williamson - Chicago Symphony
James Campbell - Indiana University
Michael Rusinek - Pittsburgh Symphony
Robert Spring - Arizona State University
Philippe Berrod - Paris Conservatory
Tasha Warren - Michigan State University
The 2017 Henri Selmer Summer Clarinet Academy offers an immersive experience at one of the top premiere summer educational seminars to young and talented clarinetists ages 18-30. International artists teachers will offer a unique opportunity for daily lessons and master classes. The academy is competitive and limited to 20 student participants, which makes the ratio of teacher/students 1:4. This will give each students a personal in depth opportunity to work on their skills. Join us!
1 June 2017
VIP Shirley Brill Master Class Course
Arnsberg, Germany
Kursnummer: K604
Info: In diesem
Meisterkurs von Shirley Brill werden die Klarinettisten sich im
offenen Einzelunterricht mit musikalischen Aspekten beschäftigen,
wie auch an den Grundlagen der Spieltechnik arbeiten. Das
Repertoire ist frei wählbar, auf Wunsch auch mit
Probespielliteratur.
Für
Kammermusik steht der Pianist Pascal Schweren zur Verfügung.
Eine zusätzliche Möglichkeit zum Üben und Musizieren bietet
Assistentin Gil Shaked-Agababa.
Kosten: 259,00 € Schüler der Musikschule HSK: Ermäßigung 10%
Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 10
Anmeldeschluss: 01.06.2017
3 June 2017
University of Auckland Clarinet Day - VIP Marie Ross, Director
Auckland, New Zealand
The University of Auckland Clarinet Day will be the first day-long event in New Zealand dedicated to the clarinet. Professionals, amateurs, students, and clarinet enthusiasts are welcome, and there is no age limit. Entrance is free, registration is required (with a $10 registration fee to cover administration costs).
The day will include masterclasses, workshops, presentations, and performances! The clinicians include Frank Celata from the Sydney Symphony, Peter Scholes, conductor and solo clarinetist of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, and Dr. Marie Ross, Lecturer of Clarinet at the University of Auckland.
Spaces are open for University-level and advanced secondary
school clarinet students to play in Frank Celata’s masterclass.
In addition, we will be having a student concert, where
University-level and advanced secondary students are invited to
perform a movement or short piece (maximum 10 minutes) with Kent
Isomura, University of Auckland staff accompanist.
Please make requests to perform in both of these events on the
registration form. Performers will be selected depending on
space available, repertoire, and experience level. Please don’t
be afraid to apply if you’d like to play, as we are looking for
different types of players of varying age and experience.
4 June 2017
VIP Charles Neidich Soloist with the New York Wind Orchestra at Queens College
New York City
5 - 9 June 2017
Indiana University Clarinet Workshop - VIP Howard Klug, Director
Bloomington, Indiana
Come to Bloomington and work with three international performers/teachers in a hands-on approach to clarinet performance in today's world.
Through a combination of master classes, group lessons and private lessons, VIPs Howard Klug, Steve Cohen and Eric Mandat will work with you to identify your unique issues...and help you develop approaches towards solving them.
We will present you with improved methodology towards:
better/faster articulation
improved tone
adjusting your reeds
efficient practicing
better sight reading
taking auditions
better preparation and proper mind set
rounding out your skills for today’s musical environment
learning the first steps to improvisation (Randy Salman)
playing the whole clarinet family (Eb soprano and bass clarinet)
For questions regarding the content of the program, please contact Howard Klug at: hklug@indiana.edu.
6 - 10 June 2017
Alexander Fiterstein Clarinet Academy - Full information linked on the title link
Minneapolis, Minnesota
7 June 2017
10 June 2017
4 June - July 16 2017
Round Top, Texas
Ohio State Summer Clarinet Academy - VIP Caroline Hartig, Director
Columbus, Ohio
Clarinet Academy Concerts - All performances are free and open to the public.
This program traditionally reaches capacity before the deadline. We will accept the first 50 students who have registered, paid and submitted required forms.
Program registration consists of three steps:
Step One - Registration. Complete an online registration form via the link.
After submitting an online registration, you will immediately receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive it, one of three things has happened:
If you do not receive the confirmation email within two hours of submitting a registration, contact the For questions regarding registration, payment, visiting campus etc. contact the Youth Summer Music Programs registrar for further instructions.
Step Two - Payment. Pay the participation fee online according to the instructions contained in your confirmation email. You will receive an email receipt within a few moments of submitting payment.
If you choose to pay with a check or money order (made payable to "The Ohio State University"), mail payment to the School of Music at the address below. You will receive confirmation by email within 7-10 business days.
Mail to:
The Ohio State University School of Music
ATTN: Clarinet Academy-YSMP Registrar
110 Weigel Hall
1866 College Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
Step Three - Required forms. Parents or guardians are required to print out, complete, sign, and send the following forms:
Mail the completed and signed forms to the address above, or scan and email them to the YSMP registrar.
You will receive a welcome email with further instructions about program attendance approximately two weeks before the event.
[pdf] - Some links on this page are to Adobe .pdf files requiring Adobe Reader. If you need them in a more accessible format, please contact us.
11 June 2017
Guido Six Memorial Concert with his Claribel Clarinet Choir
Zomergen, Belgium
11 - 17 June 2017
Claremont Clarinet Festival - VIP Margaret Thornhill, Director
Pomona, California
11 June - 5 August 2017
Music Academy of the West - VIP Richie Hawley, Clarinet Faculty
Santa Barbara, California
“At the Music academy I spent 8 weeks in an atmosphere that was both musically and socially engaging, in one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to. The experiences and camaraderie I’ve gained here will surely stick with me for a long time.” – 2016 Fellow
“I came here to get better at the violin. Instead, I went home not only a better musician, but a better human being as well. Thank you so much for two of the best months of my life.” – 2016 Fellow
The Music Academy of the West welcomes 140 full-scholarship recipients, ages 18-34, to study and perform during an 8-week Summer School and Festival in five programs: Voice, Vocal Piano, Collaborative Piano, Solo Piano, and Instrumental (including Strings, Winds, Brass, Percussion, and Harp). Auditions take place across the United States and abroad, typically attracting fellows from 50 music conservatories and schools and multiple countries. The Festival takes place on a beautiful 10-acre campus adjacent to popular beaches as well as in venues across Santa Barbara.
Apply NOW to be one of the clarinet fellows at the Music Academy of the West! Ages 18-34. Everyone accepted receives a FULL SCHOLARSHIP. Lessons and Masterclass...es with me every week!! Top tier conductors like Alan Gilbert, Larry Rachleff and many others. One of the greatest orchestral, chamber music and solo festivals on the planet . The Festival takes place on a beautiful 10-acre campus adjacent to popular beaches as well as in venues across Santa Barbara, California.
“A place of beauty, warmth, inspiration, drive,
education, creativity, and excitement!” – 2016 Fellow
“This was a truly transformative summer. I learned from the best, with the best,
and had a great time doing it!” – 2016 Fellow
“This was the best festival I have ever attended. The quality of the players,
instruction, and community all exceeded my expectations.” – 2016 Fellow
Outstanding Faculty & Visiting Artists
Masterclasses & Performance Opportunities
New York Philharmonic Partnership
Marilyn Horne Song Competition/National Tour
Clarinet Academy of America, now in its 7th season, is a collaboration between professors Robert DiLutis of the University of Maryland and D. Ray McClellan of the University of Georgia. CAA's guest artist this year will be Alcides Rodrigues, clarinetist/bass clarinetist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The 5 days of master classes are hosted annually by both university campuses on a rotating basis. This year, the summer of 2017, the Academy will meet at the beautiful facilities of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia, offering a host of training, master classes and performances.
This summer's CAA classes will include a wide variety of subjects and include private lessons and chamber music. Classes will include Reed Making, Phrasing, How to Become a Master Teacher and an Audition Class. Qualified applicants will be either college students, post-college students, professionals, and a select group of high school students.
New Contest for 2017: Play with the Teachers. Based on audition recordings, 2 - 8 students will be selected to rehearse and perform in a quintet with Robert DiLutis, D. Ray McClellan and Alcides Rodriguez on a faculty recital.
12 - 16 June 2017
Fort Collins, Colorado
Wesley Ferreira, Jana Starling, and Guest VIP Robert Spring
At the Lift Clarinet Academy we want you to arrive with a goal and leave with a sense of achievement. Hosted annually by Wesley Ferreira (Colorado State University) and Jana Starling (Western University), the focus is on the individual musical, technical and artistic goals of each participant. Through critical planning and communication prior to the academy, we create a program for advanced high school, undergraduate students, and graduate students that ensures you will receive the musical boost you’re looking for.
What sets the Lift Clarinet Academy apart is a focus on the individual. Each
participant receives his/her own practice room to support daily lessons and
performance coachings. Multiple group sessions and clinics cover a variety of
topics from the fundamental to the progressive. Our goal is clear: to give each
participant a tailored program with personalized instruction. The academy
program also includes activities such as topic and performance masterclasses, participant
chamber music performances, and a faculty recital as well as social gatherings
that allow students and faculty to mingle and take in some of beautiful
Colorado.
Each year, the Lift
Clarinet Academy brings in a rotating guest artist/teacher to contribute
uniquely to each year’s program offerings. This coming year, Julie DeRoche from
DePaul University joins the academy as our guest artist. The Lift Clarinet
Academy will be held in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado, in the foothills of
the Rocky Mountains; a location designed to inspire.
Attend a clarinet academy where the focus is on you, and take your clarinet playing to the next level!
14 - 17 June 2017
14 - 19 June 2017
15 - 18 June 2017
Clarinet Course in Trossingen Trossingen, Germany
Clarinet Course in Trossingen (Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg e.V.) -
Germany with Prof. Laura Ruiz Ferreres and Rie Shimada (Piano).
From 15-18. June 2017
You can apply until 15. Mai 2017 ->
http://bit.ly/2opiyNt
+info;
http://bit.ly/2owog0G
15 June - 1 July 2017
VIP's Franklin and Diana Cohen, Directors - Check above title hyperlink for complete information
Cleveland, Ohio
17 and 19 June 2017
Senior VIP Karl Leister Performance with the Leipziger String Quartet and Master Class at Vandoren Paris
From VIP Jean-Marie Paul regarding Senior VIP Karl Leister's appearance at Vandoren Paris
Before his coming at Vandoren-Paris on Monday, 19 June in the morning where he will answer your questions (and will play a few pieces), Karl Leister will play Saturday, June 17, at the festival of nohant (26-Indre) the trio of Brahms and Mozart Quintet:
https://festivalnohant.com/…/karl-leister-clarinette-leip…/F
18 June 2017
Mexico
Domain Forget International Music Festival
18 June - 1 July 2017 - Clarinet sessions
June 25 to July 1st
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June 18 to July 1st
19 - 23 June 2017
California Clarinet Clinic - VIP Julia Heinen, Director
The mission of the California Clarinet Clinic is to offer an outstanding summer educational clarinet seminar to talented clarinetists which incorporates mind and body awareness for performance and artistic success. The integration of all these aspects of performance is essential for optimum performance and results on stage.
The low student/teacher ratio will offer a unique opportunity for students to live and work closely with the internationally acclaimed artist faculty in a unique and intimate setting. In addition, the many sessions including Yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique, Music Therapy, Visualization and Hypnosis will be extremely beneficial to all aspects of performance.
DATES FOR 2017 ARE HERE!!!! - Monday, June 19 – Friday, June 23, 2017
The Clinic will take place at Aldersgate Retreat Center in beautiful Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. The retreat center is located walking distance to the Pacific ocean.
Tuition includes lodging for 4 nights of the clinic and breakfast. If your travel plans require you to arrive on Sunday, lodging will be included for 1 additional night (no meals). Participants are responsible for their travel costs to and from Aldersgate Retreat Center.
($300.00 Deposit Due on May 1, 2017 – Balance of Tuition Due on May 15, 2017 – No refunds)
The curriculum will include daily private lessons, masterclasses, clinics and lectures on a wide variety of topics including performance and audition success, mouthpiece trial and selection and orchestral excerpt preparation. In addition, the unique Yoga for Clarinetists and Pilates for Musicians will be offered allowing the participants to experience better performance with less tension and stress with this important mind/body connection.
Students will receive private instruction with all faculty members in addition to chamber music coaching. Participation in masterclasses, clinics and lectures are all part of this wonderful experience!
We will have some outside activities available including a picnic and beach time.
Some of the Unique Offerings at California Clarinet Clinic
21 June - 20 August 2017
Aspen, Colorado
The Aspen Music Festival and School is the country’s premier summer music festival, offering a combination of intensive one-on-one instruction and professional performance experience. Each student coming to Aspen steps into an extraordinary musical world of unparalleled depth and breadth. It encompasses more than 600 students, five orchestras, opera, a robust offering of chamber music studies, master classes, lectures, and more.
Along with private instruction, many students rehearse and perform major orchestral repertoire side-by-side with their teachers and/or with principal players from major orchestras, including those of New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Orchestras perform weekly or accompany one of three professional operatic productions. Soloists and conductors vary by week and are among the world’s most revered classical musicians.
Students in all programs can attend more than 300 performances, master classes, lectures, and panels; and, as part of the AMFS community, they make connections that can last a lifetime. Aspen is open to musicians of any age and at any stage of their career. However, the intensity of the professional performance schedule and the exacting standards of quality make Aspen most appropriate for the serious, dedicated musician.
Join Aspen for its sixty-ninth season, and experience what has made the Aspen Music Festival and School a place of artistic and personal transformation since 1949. Summer 2017
Full Session: June 21 – August 20
Half Session I: June 21 – July 23
Half Session II: July 24 – August 20
Teaching and Performance Venues The Aspen Music Festival and School is headquartered at the pastoral 38-acre Bucksbaum Campus located just outside of Aspen among groves of aspen trees, fields, and ponds. In 2013, the AMFS celebrated the opening of the newly redeveloped Campus with all-new performance/rehearsal halls, percussion facilities, and practice rooms. Brand new teaching studios were dedicated in 2014. Campus facilities also include a music library, a dining hall, and the administrative offices. For a full list of performance and teaching venues, visit the Venues page.
23 June - 6 August 2017
Brevard, North Carolina
Brevard Music Center stands as one of this country's premier summer training programs and festivals. More than 400 gifted students, ages 14 through post-college, come to the Music Center every summer to study with a distinguished faculty of over 80 artists from the nation's leading orchestras, colleges, and conservatories.
Under the artistic direction of acclaimed conductor and BMC alumnus Keith Lockhart – Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops and the BBC Orchestra in London – passion, commitment, and excellence are signatures of Brevard's summer programs.
Participants learn by sitting with principal players from major symphonies, attending seminars with Grammy-winning composers, working with masterful conductors and soloists, and attending the nearly 80 performances presented each season.
Over the past eight decades, the Brevard Music Center has welcomed many of the world's most famous musicians to perform with our talented student orchestras. Yo-Yo Ma, Issac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Conrad Tao, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Renée Fleming are just a few of the artists who have graced the stage of our 1800-seat open air, lakeside auditorium during a music festival that welcomes over 40,000 attendees each summer.
The hallmark of the Brevard Music Center is the powerful sense of community that is created every June through August. In a rigorous yet empowering program of instruction and professional performance, students and faculty co-exist on campus, collaborate in the classroom, and perform as one on the stage. Private lessons are complemented and enhanced by participating in orchestral, chamber, and opera performances.
Become part of the BMC community. Experience the thrill of performing with the world's most celebrated artists. Practice your craft and develop your skills in a picturesque rehearsal studio – in nature, beside the lake, amongst the white pines, alongside the stream. Share a communal lunch or an impromptu conversation with faculty and guest artists in our cafeteria. Interact with patrons who fill our auditoriums and love to hear your music.
We welcome you, the next generation of musicians and artists. We encourage you, and challenge you, to experience the magic of the Brevard Music Center. In a community of musicians, you will be transformed. On the stage and in the classroom, you will be inspired. In just one summer, you will make new friendships that will last a lifetime.
24 June - 5 August 2017
Bowdoin Music Festival - Clarinet Faculty, VIP Jon Manasse
Brunswick, Maine
Applications are still being accepted for our Woodwind Fellowship Program. Instruments in this program include bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, and horn. Fellows will have the opportunity to study with our faculty, including Linda Chesis, flute; Jon Manasse, clarinet; and James Austin Smith, oboe.
The Bowdoin International Music Festival Fellowship Program is a 6-week fully-funded opportunity for outstanding musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. The program offers the full resources of the internationally-renowned faculty and Festival infrastructure for an intensive and extensive exploration of solo and chamber repertoire. Fellows work with the Fellowship Program Director to design an individualized schedule and have the opportunity to perform alongside faculty and guest artists in the Festival’s subscription concert series. APPLY NOW!
Fellowship Program details include:
25 June 2017
Amsterdam , The Netherlands
25 - 29 June 2017
26 - 27 June 2017
Texas Christian University Summer Clarinet Workshop - Dr Gary Whitman, Director
Fort Worth, Texas
26 - 30 June 2017
ClariFest 2017 Guatemala
28 June - 1 July 2017
University of North Texas ClarEssentials Workshops - complete information on the link
Denton, Texas
We welcome high school clarinetists to join us for this, our sixth year of events. We offer intensive instruction specifically designed to improve clarinet performance skills and develop overall musicianship: daily warm up and technique sessions to refine fundamental skills; performance and clinic presented by esteemed guest artist Ivan Petruzziello, Acting Principal Clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; masterclasses, clinics, and recitals presented by renowned University of North Texas clarinet faculty members John Scott, Kimberly Cole Luevano, Deborah Fabian, and Daryl Coad; a session on instrument repair and maintenance; a student solo recital; daily chamber music coaching and performance; clarinet choir; and a performances at our workshop finale recital.
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