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Author: smithy
Date: 2008-01-08 05:23
Hi all,
I’m a Master of Music student studying the work of Brigid Burke, an Australian clarinettist, composer and visual artist. I’m interested in looking at other clarinettist performer-composers from any country who have been active since 1950. If you can suggest names of clarinettists who are also composers, particularly those who compose for the clarinet, I’d really appreciate hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Katherine Smith
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Author: mnorswor
Date: 2008-01-08 06:37
Eric P. Mandat
William O. Smith
Derek Bermel
Jorg Widmann
Sean Osborn
Off the top of my head...
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-01-08 07:02
This may not be quite what you had in mind, but Harrison Birtwhistle started off as a clarinet player.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-01-08 07:15
If you're willing to expand that to performer-composer-improvisor then I recommend listening to music by people like Louis Sclavis, Jacques Di Donato, Armand Angster, Michel Portal, Denis Colin (all from France).
Two of my best CDs are by Trio De Clarinettes which includes the first three musicians I mentioned.
One of them is the trio live on FMP -
http://www.fmp-online.de/eframeset.htm (not the most
user friendly website)- click on CATALOGUE (bottom
left) - on the left list scroll to TRIO DE CLARINETTES
and click.
The other is Double Trio Green Dolphy Suite on Enja (also with the Aracado String Trio) - http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9011
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Author: Liam Murphy
Date: 2008-01-08 08:06
Hey, I'm an Australian clarinetist Interested in Burke's playing also:
About clarinet composers: I recently read an article that reviewed the work of a modern clarinetist, who I consider to be the best in the world, that performed his own music with great success.
** http://www.martinfrost.se/news.asp?show=76 ** The link will provide further information.
From what I've read Martin Frost's compositions are at least as "Out there" as Brigid Burke's work. I especially respect Frost for his pioneering of and reciprocation back to the musical community via composition and inspiring various composers, As well as recording and performing huge amounts of "standard repertoire".
Sorry Frost is the only clarinetist-composer-performer I can think of at the moment, I'm sure there are many more out there.
Hope some of this helps,
-Liam
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2008-01-08 10:14
Me! (oh, did you want good ones??)
-Kevin
www.kevinzhang.net
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-08 11:27
Famous people who play (or once played) clarinet:
Alan Greenspan
Woody Allen
Ray Charles
Hal Linden
Keith Lockhart (Boston Pops)
Sid Caesar
Steven Spielberg
Julia Roberts
Jim Carrey
John Williams (composer/conductor)
George Segal
Deidre Hall (actress)
Harpo Marx
Van Cliburn
Billy Crystal
Rudy Vallee
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Kimmel
Alyson Hannigan (actress)
Modern composers who also played clarinet (even briefly in their youth):
John Adams
John Corrigliano
Donald Martino
Leonard Bernstein
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Paul Hindemith
Jazz performer/composers:
Eddie Daniels
Benny Goodman
Artie Shaw
Acker Bilk
Jimmy Dorsey
...GBK
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-01-08 13:08
Almost as far off-topic as GBK's American-dominated list:
Famous deceased members of the Rolling Stones who played clarinet (quite competently it would seem):
Brian Jones.
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Author: SirAdamWilliams
Date: 2008-01-08 14:54
My personal favorite clarinetist/composer has got to be Alfred Prinz. His music is very interesting, and... his performance of the Mozart Concerto is one of the most famous.
Go with him.
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Author: James Langdell
Date: 2008-01-08 15:16
Pete Townsend of The Who told David Letterman in an interview that he really wanted to play clarinet, like his father. But his aunt gave him a Spanish-guitar-shaped-object as a gift, and his parents insisted that he practice that regularly before they'd buy him a better instrument.
Also, Brian Eno has played clarinet. However, that was as a member of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, where everyone was required to play an instrument they weren't familiar with.
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Author: glin
Date: 2008-01-08 20:32
How about Paul Harvey? He has a clarinet background and a number of nice compositions out there.
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