Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2012/02

From: Thomas J McKay <tjmckay@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Status update on my son
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:53:53 -0500

Congratulations, Mark. That is something to tell people about.

Tom

On 2/12/12 6:50 PM, "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org> wrote:

>As some of you old-timers know, I got involved with this list by asking a
>few questions to help my son out when he was in middle school, some few
>years back (like the end of 1995 ... I have no idea where the time went!)
>
>In that intervening time he went to Interlochen for clarinet, got his
>Bachelors degree in clarinet performance at Cleveland Institute for
>Music, moved to Japan to teach & perform, got interested in conducting,
>got his Masters degree at the Tokyo Gedai in conducting, and decided to
>pursue conducting as a career. He's been working his way along, working
>with and conducting various regional orchestras and opera companies, and
>is principal conductor of one of these, the Edogawa Orchestra in Tokyo.
>
>This coming week is his first big-time conducting gig. He'll be
>conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic on a regional tour in Shizuoka, Japan
>on Tuesday-Thursday of this coming week. He's worked hard, and I'm pretty
>proud of him.
>
>Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
>
>Mark Charette
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