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Author: Drenkier_1
Date: 2006-03-05 01:17
Do any of you know of clarinet players who are now conductors in various symphony orchestras around the world?
Kevin Collins
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Author: hinotehud ★2017
Date: 2006-03-05 01:59
John Varineau is the assistant conductor of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Symphony. He is a brilliant conductor and a wonderful clarinetist as well.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-03-05 03:04
Keith Lockhart (Boston Pops)
John Williams (composer/conductor)
...GBK
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Author: robertgh
Date: 2006-03-05 03:36
Sir Colin Davis studied clarinet at the Royal College of Music, London and was clarinetist with the band of the Household Guards.
Post Edited (2006-03-05 03:52)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-03-05 04:06
Humphrey Burton, in his great biography of Leonard Bernstein wrote that in August of 1939, after working on his "Hebrew Song" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra and with his NYC sublet apartment lease having ended, Bernstein used his last four dollars to purchase a clarinet from a pawnshop.
Probably wasn't a Buffet ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
Also, the composer/conductor John Corrigliano mentions in a interview that he took a few clarinet lessons from Drucker...GBK
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Author: BG ★2017
Date: 2006-03-05 04:51
Norman Leyden is another great clarinetist turned conductor, and also is a terrific arranger!
http://www.orsymphony.org/orchestra/conductors/leyden.html
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Author: ABerry
Date: 2006-03-05 06:11
Here are acouple more...
Efrain Guigui- Currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Composers Conference at Wellesly College, former conductor of the Puerto Rico, Vermont, and Dartmouth Symphonies as well as the Casals Festival. And my clarinet teacher in collecge...
Carl F. Long Jr.- Currently Priceipal Clarinet & Concertmaster of the U.S. Air Force Band and is Music Director and Conductor of the Prince William Symphony Orchestra. Also a former student of Bob Marcellus and Larry Combs...
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Author: msloss
Date: 2006-03-05 13:47
David Hattner has become quite active in the area. He just did the Einhorn "Voices of Light" which accompanies the "Passion of Joan of Arc"at the Winter Garden a couple weeks ago. It was streamed on WNYC.org and may be available for a download at some point. Quite the production including a full ensemble, soloists and Anonymous 4. Well reviewed in the NY Times.
He's also going to be conducting the Schickele Monochrome #3 (with Nuccio, Martinez, Reuben, Dilutis, Lamy...) on April 1st at the NJ Clarinet Symposium and then the Camerata Atlantica the following Monday. Keep an eye on this guy -- he's going places. Definitely following in the footsteps of his teacher Bob Marcellus as a player and a conductor.
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2006-03-05 15:34
Paul Meyer conducts, as does Emma Johnson.
Carl Topilow at CIM is also a clarinetist.
Bradley
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Author: William
Date: 2006-03-05 15:36
University of Wisconsin--Madison, Professor James Smith, former west coast clarinetist, serves as the principal conductor or our Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra composed of the finest high school musicians from our state. This talented youth group (founded by Marvin Rabin who also started the Boston Youth Symphony) has toured internationally, most recently, to Japan. At the UW, Professor Smith teaches conducting classes and conducts the University's very excellant Wind Ensemble (audition only). And occassionally--most recently when the university's Professor of Clarinet (Linda Bartley) suffered an unfortunate hand injury--blows the dust off his clarinet case and sits in with the UW's resident faculty Wingra Woodwind Quintet. One of his favorite sayings (Smithisms, to his students) is, "A pretty sound is an in tune sound". Another, "An instrument should not sound so as to stun small animals".
Conductor and (most importantly) Clarinetist, Professor James Smith, University of Wisconisn in Madison.
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Author: Cowchick
Date: 2006-03-05 17:31
The late James Livingston, principal clarinet of the Louisville Orchestra was also the Assistant Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra as well as conductor of the University of Louisville Orchestra. An incredible clarinettist and musician, he may be heard on re-releases of the Louisville Orchestra's First Edition recordings playing Ned Rorem's Eleven Studies for Eleven Players (1953), and also playing Phillip Rhodes Museum Pieces (1973) for clarinet and string quartet. If anyone still has access to LP's ( those ancient black pvc things with grooves on their surfaces) there is a marvelous recording of him playing the Variations for Clarinet Strings and Harp by Ben-Haim on First Edition Records. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this has been re-relaesed en forme CD.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2006-03-05 18:48
James Livingston also recorded the Seiber "Concertino" and Tauriello's "Ilinx" for Louisville (both on the same LP).
David Lowell Peak, longtime conductor of the Town and Country Symphony Orchestra. 
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Brandon
Date: 2006-03-05 19:51
The late Alan Balter, former conductor of the Memphis Symphony, was once the principal clarinetist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He was also a student of Marcellus.
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Author: Adrian
Date: 2006-03-05 23:46
Andrew Schenck, who passed away at the early age of 51, was establishing himself as a world-class conductor.
He studied clarinet with Leon Rushianoff, and was an outstanding clarinetist at the high school level.
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Author: glin
Date: 2006-03-06 01:53
I read this some time ago, so I hope I'm right....
Well, he's retired and isn't a symphony conductor, but this ensemble is a great one to watch and listen to.
Col. Timothy Foley
US Marine Band (Washington DC)
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-03-06 19:58
On the local Washington DC level (to add to glin's post), a very fine semi-pro orchestra here, the Fairfax (VA) Symphony, is conducted by William Hudson who studied clarinet with Gigliotti.
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Author: Bnewbs
Date: 2006-03-07 01:28
"Osmo Vanska-Minnesota Symphony!!!"
It would be the Minnesota Orchestra, it used to be the Minneapolis Symphony way back in the day (before I was born). Vanska used to be co-principal of the Helsinki Phil. before becoming a conductor. He performed the Beethoven clarinet trio last summer and still has very nice sound after all of those years of just conducting and not playing. He really knows his Beethoven too, for anyone who has heard the recent recording of the 4th and 5th symphonies, IMHO the best so far.
Ben
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Author: jez
Date: 2006-03-07 09:40
Harry Christophers was a clarinnettist. though most of the music he is now associated with doesn't use them!
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