Klarinet Archive - Posting 000284.txt from 1997/08

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: Young Players
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:59:36 -0400

Mimi S. won the Yamaha Intl. Flute Comp. a few years ago (age 13) beating
out the only US. player at the Paris Conservatoire. (D. Hansen)
David C. Blumberg
Reedman@-----.com

I've known several clarinetists and flutists who started at age 7 and a few
that started at 6, and they reaped great benefits from it.

One of them was the youngest wind player ever accepted to Curtis (at age
12), who is know the first flutist of the Curtis Orchestra at age 15!

Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net