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Clarinet Artists
Previously a member of the orchestra of New Orleans and Montreal, and of the Santa Fe Opera, Larry Combs joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1974 and was appointed principal clarinet by Sir Goerg Solit in 1978. He has since appeared as soloist with the Orchestra on numerous occasions in works by Copland, Mozart Brahms Berio, Corigliano and Rouse. He also has been featured many times on CSO tour concerts performing Morton Gould's adaptation of Chicago for clarinet and orchestra. An avid chamber musician, he is a founding member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and has appeared with the Chamber music Society of Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian Chamber Ensemble. In addition, he has recorded as soloist and chamber musician on the Erato, Sony Cedille, Crystal, and Smmit labels, Some of his recent chamber music experiences have included joining CSO Music Director Daniel Barenboim and cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Brahms's Trio in a minor, op. 114, at Orchestra Hall and performances with Ravinia Music Director Crhistoph Eschenbach at the Ravinia Festival. In addition to orchestral playing and chamber music, Larry has a lifelong interest in jazz. He appeared with Chicago pianist Larry Novak at the 1999 Chicago Jazz Festival and joined the Chicago Jazz Orchestra in its Tribute to Benny Goodman concert in September 1999. He also has performed and recorded with Bill Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble and participated in the Tribute to Duke Ellington CD on the Teldec label with Daniel Barenboim. In 2002, Larry was awarded his second Grammy Award for his recording of Richard Strauss' Duett-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon, strings and harp with David McGill and Maestro Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
André Moisan is known for his consummate mastery of the instrument, his impressive musicality and the clarity of his playing. Since 1977, he has made regular concert and radio appearances as a soloist and chamber player. His numerous concerts abroad, in particular at Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Radio-Berlin, established him as a leading performer. In the orchestral field, Mr. Moisan has worked under renowned conductors, mainly with the OSM. He first performed with the orchestra in 1977, under Andrew Davis and made his first solo appearance in 1997 with Charles Dutoit. Since May 1999 he has held the position of principal saxophone and bass clarinet. Besides work as a concert and recital artist, André Moisan is also a conductor. A co-founder with the late Bruce Bower, of Les Vents de Montréal, he also originated one of the few clarinet choirs in Canada, at the Université de Montréal. A member of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) since 1977, he was also a member of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne from 1989-1996. He currently teaches at the Université de Montréal and during the summer at the Orford Arts Centre. He has also taught clarinet and served as soloist and coach on many occasionas with the Jeunessses Musicales of Canada World Orchestra as well as the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. During the 2007-2008 season, his 30th anniversary of professional artistic life, he served as a guest conductor with the Orchestra Symphonique de Québec, Hamilton and guest soloist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano.
Dr. David Etheridge is David Ross Boyd Professor of Music at the University of Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years. Prior to his tenure at OU, he served as clarinet instructor for eight years at the State University of Arts and Science at Potsdam, New York. Etheridge earned the doctor of musical arts degree in clarinet performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied in the class of Stanley Hasty. Other principal teachers included Val P. Henrich and Jerry Neil Smith. Etheridge also studied with Rudolph Jettel (Vienna Conservatory), Ulysses Delecluse (Paris Conservatory), Jack Brymer (London) and Michael Incenzo (Rome Conservatory). Etheridge is an active soloist and recitalist. He appears regularly with the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet, which has performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, the Eisenstadt Festival in Austria and twice before conferences of the National Association for Music Education. He has appeared as a recitalist and conductor at the International Clarinet Conferences in Denver (1981 and 1983), Seattle (1986), Lubbock (1997), Columbus (1998), Osten, Belgium (1999) and most recently as a lecturer in Stockholm, Sweden (2002). Etheridge has performed at the Montevallo Clarinet Symposium in the Montana/Idaho Clarinet Festival, the Mid-West Clarinet Symposium and the Brazil Clarinet Symposium III, which was held in Salvador, Brazil. He has served as a clinician for state music conventions for the California Band Directors Association and the Colorado, Oklahoma and New York music educators' associations and has adjudicated in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Missouri. For 11 years a member of the artist faculty of the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, Etheridge was a featured lecturer at the 1997 International Clarinet Society conference at Lubbock, Texas, and performed with Jozsef Balogh at the society's 1988 conference at Columbus, Ohio. In 1998, 1999 and 2001 he served on the artist faculty of the Hungarian International Clarinet Camp. Etheridge is the author of a number of articles that have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Woodwind World and the Journal for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. He also has written a book, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View, published by Pelican Books. Etheridge is founder of the internationally acclaimed OU Clarinet Symposium, now in its 30th year. He served two terms as vice president of the International Clarinet Society, and his honors include the Amoco Foundation Award for Good Teaching, received in 1987, and the OU Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, awarded in 1992.
Raphael P. Sanders, Jr. is currently Associate Professor of Clarinet at the Crane School of Music. Dr. Sanders, holds degrees from the University of Hawaii, The San Fransisco Conservatory of Music and the University of North Texas. Raphael's clarinet mentors include Robert Marcellus, David Breeden, Henry Miyamura and James Gillespie. Originally from Hawaii, Raphael has performed with orchestras in San Fransisco, Houston and New York and has taught at the college level in Texas and Nevada. Raphael performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad including a 9-day residency in Canton(Guangzhou) China. He is a member of the acclaimed Texas Clarinet Consort which has performed in Sweden, Belgium, France, England and Mexico. Raphael performed his New York City debut rectial in June 2005, and is scheduled for New York City solo performances in Flushing, Douglaston and Manhattan in 2006. Dr. Sanders is a performing artist with Buffet Crampon, conducts clinics and mmasterclasses throughout America and recently completed a tour of Colorado. In 1997, Raphael established the I.C.A. Orchestral Audition Competition.
Julianne Kirk Dr. Julianne Kirk serves as Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. An active soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Kirk is a member of the Aria Reed Trio with Crane School of Music colleagues Anna Hendrickson, oboe and Carol Lowe, bassoon and the Eastman Triana with violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport and pianist Yin Zheng. Both trios were recently featured on the WXXI Live from Hochstein Radio Broadcast in Rochester, NY. She holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelors of Music from the University of Oklahoma. Her major teachers include Jon Manasse, David Etheridge and Bradford Behn. Dr. Kirk has performed in prestigious venues internationally including Tokyo Opera City, Act City Hamamatsu, Taipei National Concert Hall, New York City’s Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kirk has played with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Amici Orchestra, Orchestra of Northern New York, Northern Symphonic Winds, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Light Opera Oklahoma, Tulsa Philharmonic, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, Rochester Oratorio Chorus, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Eastman Philharmonia and the Eastman Opera Orchestra. Dr. Kirk has given master classes and clinics for the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, Aria Summer Music Academy, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and will be come Director for the Crane Youth Music Camp in 2009. Dr. Kirk has performed and presented at numerous conferences including the International Double Reed Society Conference, New York State School Music Association Conference, Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, and the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest. Prior to joining the faculty at Crane, Dr. Kirk held teaching positions at Ball State University, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Community Music School, Hochstein School of Music, Nazareth College and the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Kirk is a Vandoren Artist and plays the Vandoren M30 mouthpiece, ligatures and reeds exclusively.
Benjamin Redwine began playing e-flat clarinet (because his hands were too small to play b-flat clarinet) at the age of 6, studying with his grandfather, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra principal clarinetist, Loris Wiles. Ben earned a bachelor of music education degree from the University of Oklahoma and a master of music (clarinet performance) degree from Louisiana State University. Ben is the e-flat clarinet soloist with the United States Naval Academy Band. He conducts clinics at local universities and high schools on topics such as jazz improvisation and mouthpiece making. Ben is a member of the cutting-edge chamber music ensemble Washington Musica Viva (www.dcmusicaviva.org), based in Washington, D.C., and is the Artistic Director for the St. Andrew’s Concert Series in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the leader of the RedwineJazz Band, an ensemble devoted to the promotion, perpetuation and performance of traditional jazz. The band’s and Ben’s recordings can be purchased at www.mapleshaderecords.com or at Ben’s website. Ben is devoted to playing new classical and old jazz music! Ben and his wife, Leslie, are the owners of RedwineJazz, a company devoted to providing quality products to professional and amateur clarinetists. The cornerstone of the company is the Gennusa “Excellente” clarinet mouthpiece, which they make and which Ben hand-finishes, using old techniques taught to him by famed clarinetist Iggy Gennusa. You can learn more than you’ll ever want to know about Ben at www.redwinejazz.com.
David Gould has been seen in concerto appearances, recitals and chamber music concerts in Belgium, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States. Gould, an active orchestral clarinetist, he has been principal clarinet with the Orchestre de la Cite, the Lautus Chamber Orchestra, the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Connecticut Grand Opera. He is principal clarinet of the Metro Chamber Orchestra. He performs frequently with The New York City Ballet Orchestra, and at the Metropolitan Opera as a member of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra. He has been in performances with the New Jersey Symphony, the Philharmonic of New Jersey, and the Harrisburg Symphony. He has played under the batons of Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Gerard Schwarz, Leonard Slatkin and many others. Mr. Gould has become the newest member of the clarinet faculty at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. He is a regular performer and teacher at the Wyoming Young Musicians festival. He was a clarinet instructor at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He has given master classes, lectures, and recitals at numerous conservatories and universities including Augustana College, Augsburg College, The Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, Columbia University, The Crane School of Music, The Eastman School of Music, University of Florida in Gainesville, Lewis and Clark College, James Madison University, U Mass Amherst, Nazareth College, University of Portland, Westchester University, University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Mr. Gould received his Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School as a Jerome L. Greene fellow while studying with Stanley Drucker and David Weber. Mr. Gould also participated in the Academie Internationale de Musique de Lozere with Jacques Lancelot. He continued his studies in Paris, France as one of only two musicians being awarded the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship. He was then accepted into the class of Michel Arrignon at the Conservatoire Municipal de Paris 12eme. He completed his studies at the Conservatoire National de Region de Versailles with Philippe Cuper. Upon graduation he received the unanimous first prize with the congratulations of the jury in Superieur studies and the unanimous first prize in Honor studies. Gould has recorded for Naxos, highlighting the chamber music of Sean Hickey, and Mode Records for a project entitled Music from the Ether. Mr. Gould is a Vandoren Performing Artist and Artistic Advisor.
Featuring Crane Clarinet Studio Alumns:
Christine Barron
Matthew Doi
Elizabeth Widzinski
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