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Kenneth Grant - Solo Clarinetist in the Rochester (New York) Philharmonic and Professor at the Eastman School of Music
email: klgclar@aol.com
Biography
Kenneth Grant is Associate Professor of Clarinet at the
Eastman School of Music, where he
...has taught
since his appointment in 1987.
A Buffalo native, Mr. Grant received his education at the Eastman School of
Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree and Performer’s Certificate.
His principal teachers have been Donald Mattea, James Pyne, Stanley Hasty,
Franklin Cohen, and Theodore Johnson.
He joined the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1987 as Principal Clarinet
after almost fifteen years in the same position with the Columbus Symphony. In
1990, he toured Europe with the Cleveland Orchestra as Assistant Principal
Clarinet. In 1994, he won critical acclaim in Japan as soloist with the Eastman
Wind Ensemble in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
Mr. Grant has presented several first performances, including the Clarinet
Concerto of Sydney Hodkinson (world premiere) and Benjamin Britten’s Concerto
Movement for Clarinet and Orchestra (United States premiere), both with the
Rochester Philharmonic, and Verne Reynolds’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and
Fantasy Etudes for Clarinet, Percussion, and Piano.
Apart from
his performing, he was a participant in the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium (June
1996), the KlarFest at Ohio State University (July 1998), the KlarFest in New
Orleans (2001), the International Festival at Round Top (2004, 2005), and the
Aria International Summer Academy at Ball State University (2004, 2005).
Prior to his
current position at Eastman, Kenneth Grant was a faculty member at Capital
University (1978-87) and Ohio Wesleyan University (1986-87). He also served on
the faculty of the Eastman Summer Seminar in Hamamatsu, Japan (1998, 1999, 2000,
and 2002
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