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Author: clarinetfreak
Date: 2006-03-23 17:34
Does anyone know what is going on with this orchestra? The orchestra personel seem to have changed very drastically in a very short time.
Good Times!
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Author: vin
Date: 2006-03-24 04:03
Disclaimer- this is hearsay.
I heard that the conductor cleaned house, fired or "retired" a whole bunch of older musicians, and replaced them with younger ones. One of those is clarinetist Jerry Chai (spelling?) a student of Ricardo Morales' who most recently did a one year position in Milwaukee. It is not hearsay to say he is a very fine player.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2006-03-24 11:04
Vin summarized well what happened, but may I add a little bit more, as an on-site observer.
Since Maestro Chung Myoung-hoon(former conductor at Bastille Opera) came to the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra as artistic director and senior conductor (I think early 2005), he vowed to a 'generational change' of the orchestra, among other reforms. The audition process was lengthy and painful. I happened to lurk SPO website, and the bboard was inundated with angry Korean musicians who quit their overseas job/school to be at the audition and got rejected en masse.
SPO is nowadays often on the headlines due to many high profile performances, but also due to its free concerts at townhall-kind of places, sometimes at local churches. That is really refreshing, and something other elitist/high-brow musicians can think about, too.
On the clarinet front: after a fierce competition, Jae-il Chai (Maybe his American name is Jerry Chai. I didn’t know that.) was selected and announced as 1st clarinetist in August 2005. According to a local newspaper, his father was also 1st clarinetist of the orchestra in its early days.
Lucy Lee Jang
Post Edited (2006-03-24 11:13)
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