Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2003/06
From: Blumberg Artists Management <Musicians@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] ORCHESTRA
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:06:37 -0400
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From: Esefers@-----.com
Subject: Re: [kl] ORCHESTRA
Message-ID: <121.227e23f1.2c0a785b@-----.com>
Antoine,
Thank you so much for your comments! Amazingly enough, I'm in the same
situation you were before -- I just graduated from a "crappy" school, but my
teacher
were excellent. He is not an orchestra player, but I got great methodic
teaching from him how to play clarinet. Now I need a good environment and
knowledgeable teacher in orchestral studies. I have already considered
Cincinnati,
thanks for advice, knowing that the orchestra is good there, helps.
What do you think, which of the teachers there would be better, De Kant or
Hawley? Hawley is a principal of Cincinnati Symphony and currently working
on
his Audition Book, De Kant also looks a specialist in his field, several
publications, played in some top orchestras...I guess, my question is: is it
better
to study with a younger player who got his job recently (would be more up to
date?) or more experienced teacher who no longer plays in an orchestra.
I really love Morales' playing, I know he is moving to Philadelphia this
June. Does anyone know, is he going to stay in faculty in New York schools,
or
will he start teaching in Philadelphia?
I recently returned from Houston, I was a semifinalist in Ima Hogg (sounds
funny when you read it, doesn't it?) Young Artist Competition, we were only
two
clarinetists there, my and a guy from Eastman. None of us made to finals,
however I had a chance to look at the school and talk to people about the
program.
A grad student there told me the guy who plays in Houston Symphony and
teaches there is not coming back next year. I wonder, are they going to
replace him
with someone? does anyone know?
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I would go with Hawley on personality alone (being a choice of DeCould ;).
But the more experienced teacher will almost always be the better teacher as
they have had more time to formulate their ideas and know also what works
for more students. Remember that when a player gets a job in a major
orchestra, most of the time they also are getting the offers from the
Universitys to teach there as well. That doesn't qualify them at all as to
being a good teacher - just a good Orchestra player. I studied with
Gigliotti for 7 years but didn't like his earlier recordings (the ones pre
1980 AT ALL). They made me cringe but he was a very good teacher.
btw -
I still hold the record in the ICA as the youngest teacher to ever have a
student be a winner in the ICA Young Artist Competition (I was 28 in 1992
when my student took 2nd in it). Not even Morales nor Russinek beat that
one. My student was 16 at the time so if he were a few years older he would
have likely won 1st in it.
David Blumberg
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