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RE: a young clarinetist...suggestion?s

Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-04-14 01:24

If you can handle the Mozart quintet, you should consider learning the Mozart Concerto. It's the most important piece for clarinet, bar none. It's a lot harder than it looks, you have to have very clean technique or else it will sound very bad. It's a Level 6 NYSSMA. You also might look at the Weber Concerto No. 1; it's not as big a jump from the Quintet and it's an excellent audition piece. The Weber Concertino is a lot of fun to play but a little harder (I think- they're pretty close in difficulty). The Concerto's a five and the Concertino's a six. If you want a showy piece, look at most anything in the 16 Grand Solos Book from Southern Music.

I'm 15 and I play clarinet constantly, along with violin and a little classical singing. I'm probably not the person to tell you this (sounding a little hypocritical here) but if you want to be a great clarinetist, maybe you should focus a little more. How much do you practice clarinet every day?

I know what it's like to have few friends intensely interested in music. No one else understands why I go home and practice for two hours a night; they think I'm crazy.

Good luck at your audition.

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