Texas Clarinet Colloquium

Dr. Mary Alice Druhan, Founder and Director

February 26-27, 2010

GUEST ARTISTS:

Larry Guy, Featured Clinician

For over 30 years, Larry Guy has been one of the busiest clarinetists in New York City.  For twenty-seven years he was principal clarinet of the Long Island Philharmonic, and for many years he served as principal clarinetist with the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Guild Orchestra, Lake George Opera, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra.  A former member of the Atlanta Symphony, he has also performed   with the New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theatre, American Composers Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Ensemble, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Sylvan Winds, Speculum Musicae, and the Emerson, Manhattan, and Vermeer String Quartets.

Broadway credits include Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s “La Boheme”, Peter Brooks’ “The Tragedy of Carmen”, “Most Happy Fella”, “Man of La Mancha”, Miss Saigon”, and “The King and I”.
He has won numerous awards and has presented solo recitals in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., and at numerous other halls throughout the country.
Mr. Guy studied at Oberlin College (B. M.), Catholic University (M. M.), and Manhattan School of Music (Post-Graduate Diploma), where he was awarded the Andrew Goodman Prize for excellence in clarinet performance.  His principal teachers were Robert Marcellus, Anthony Gigliotti, and Marcel Moyse.

Larry Guy has recorded for Angel, Columbia Masterworks, CRI, Decca, Delos, Koch International, Vanguard Classics, Island Records, and his performances have been heard over National Public Radio.
Mr. Guy has lectured for ClarinetFest at the Royal Academy in Stockholm and for the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium.  He has presented master classes and workshops around the country, and he is the author of five handbooks:  “Embouchure Building for Clarinetists”, “The Daniel Bonade Workbook”, “Selection, Adjustment and Care of Single Reeds”, “Intonation Training for Clarinetists” and “Hand and Finger Development for Clarinetists”.  With the publication of “The Complete Daniel Bonade”, Mr. Guy has made the three major texts of Daniel Bonade (Clarinetist’s Compendium,  16 Phrasing Studies, and Orchestra Studies), out of print for many years, once again available to clarinetists. 

He has recently compiled two educational CDs, released by Boston Records:  “The Legacy of Daniel Bonade”, (#BR1048CD), which includes nearly everything the legendary clarinetist ever recorded, and “The Artistry of Ralph McLane”, (#BR1067CD), which features the great clarinetist in a wide range of orchestral repertoire.
In 2009, the International Clarinet Association appointed Mr. Guy “Chair of Pedagogy“; in this capacity he will write articles about teaching for the association’s magazine, The Clarinet. 
Presently Mr. Guy serves on the faculties of New York University, Vassar College, the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School of Music, and the Precollege Division of the Manhattan School of Music.

Judi Altstatt

Dr. Christopher Ayer

CHRISTOPHER AYER, a native of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, is currently Associate Professor of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he coordinates undergraduate and graduate clarinet study, and performs with the Stone Fort Wind Quintet. He has studied with Thomas Martin, Associate Principal Clarinetist with the Boston Symphony, and Ronald de Kant, former Principal Clarinetist of the Vancouver Symphony. Prior to his appointment at SFASU, Dr. Ayer was the clarinet professor and orchestra conductor at Eastern New Mexico University.

Dr. Ayer is active as a recitalist, often performing with his wife, pianist Kae Hosoda-Ayer in the US and Canada as Duo Karudan. He has also presented clarinet clinics and has been an adjudicator throughout the US and Canada. In July, 2005, he presented a lecture-recital at the International Clarinet Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, and he performed at the 2006 International Clarinet Conference in Atlanta.

Melissa Behne

Melissa Harding Behne was born in Phenix City, Alabama, on June 15, 1983, the daughter of Wendy Wecht Harding and Philip Turner Harding.  After graduating from Central High School in Phenix City, Alabama, she enrolled at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  She received the Bachelor of Music Education degree with an emphasis in Instrumental Music and the Bachelor of Music degree in Woodwind Performance in May of 2005.  Her private teachers include Dr. Ed Riley, Dr. Lisa Oberlander, and Mr. Steve Cohen.  She teaches middle school and high school band at Mesquite High School, Wilkinson Middle School, and Agnew Middle School in Mesquite, Texas for the Mesquite Independent School District.  In June of 2007 she enrolled in The Graduate School of Texas A&M University at Commerce and is pursuing the degree of Master of Music Education.  In 2005 she married Donald James Behne, of Mesquite, Texas, and they reside in Fate, Texas with their dog Cadence.

Mary Evelyn Clark

Phillip Clements

Phillip L. Clements is the Director of Instrumental Activities at Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas.  In this role, Mr. Clements serves as conductor of the wind ensemble, teaches courses in conducting, and guides the instrumental area within the Department of Music.  Prior to his appointment, Mr. Clements served on the faculties of the University of Miami, University of Texas at Arlington, the University of North Texas and taught in the public schools at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas.

A proponent of new quality music for wind band, he has been involved in commissions by composers such as David Maslanka and Christopher Rouse as well as regional premieres of works by Michael Colgrass and Donald Grantham. He is in continuous demand as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator across the United States.  In addition, Mr. Clements has authored articles for the Instrumentalist and Fanfare magazines and lectured at state conferences across the Southwest.   He has also contributed to the most recent publication in the GIA series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.   Mr. Clements has conducted at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference, the College Band Directors National Association Conference, and in New York's Carnegie Hall.  From 2005 until 2008 he served as the Associate Conductor of the Greater Miami Symphonic Band in Miami, Florida.

Also fluent in the area of marching band, Mr. Clements' ensembles have been featured as the exhibition group at numerous Bands of America Regional Contests, State Marching Contests in both Texas and Florida, and at the prestigious Bands of America Grand Nationals Championships.  Active as a drill designer he has written over one hundred and fifty commissioned contest shows for marching bands across the country.

He is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and College Band Director's National Association and is an elected member of the Phi Beta Mu honorary bandmaster's fraternity.

Jennifer Daffinee

Jennifer M. Daffinee received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Summa Cum Laude (2005), and was the Head Band Director of the Bowie Middle School Band in Irving, Texas from 2005-2007. Ms. Daffinee received her Master of Music degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, Summa Cum Laude (2009) in Clarinet Performance where she has also held the position of Adjunct Professor of Woodwind Methods for undergraduate studies.

Ms. Daffinee has taught privately since 2001 and has been an active performer, lesson coach, adjudicator, clinician, guest lecturer and guest artist at many school districts in the coastal bend and north Texas areas including Corpus Christi, Tuloso Midway, Irving, Grand Prairie, Mesquite, Forney, Lewisville, Highland Park, Allen, Gunter, Cooper and Celina ISDs, Region IV and Region XX, and at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has presented at the 2007 Texas Music Educator's Association and assisted with presentation at the 2008 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest. In 2008 she performed at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Mr. H. Robert Reynolds and in 2009 Ms. Daffinee was accepted to perform at Lincoln Center under the baton of Mr. James Keene. In 2010 she was a guest soloist at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
 
Ms. Daffinee has performed in masterclasses for Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verhehr, Dr. Howard Klug, Mr. Gary Whitman, Dr. Richard Shanley, Mr. Michael Norsworthy, Mr. Greg Raden, Dr. Stephen Beecraft, Dr. Michael Dean, Mr. Jim Logan, and the West Point Military Academy Clarinet Quartet.

Sharon Deuby

Sharon Knox Deuby enjoys a music career that is rich with variety as a performer of orchestral, band and chamber music.  She has performed with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra as Principal Clarinet since 2000 under the direction of maestros Per Brevig and Kate Tamarkin.  In addition to the ETSO, Sharon is the Associate Principal Clarinet with the Dallas Wind Symphony, a professional wind band.  She has performed with the DWS on thirteen internationally released compact discs recorded by Reference Recordings (www.dws.org).  Sharon is the Adjunct Clarinet Professor for Richland and Brookhaven Colleges and also teaches private lessons and master classes throughout the North Texas area.  Sharon performs on a freelance basis with other ensembles including Plano Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra and Fine Arts Chamber Players.  Her non-musical activities include training in Shorin-ryu karate (in which she holds a second degree black belt), bicycling, hiking, swimming and especially spending time and traveling with her husband, Sean, and son, Connor.

Dr. David Etheridge

Dr. David Etheridge is David Ross Boyd Professor of Music at the University of Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years. Prior to his tenure at OU, he served as clarinet instructor for eight years at the State University of Arts and Science at Potsdam, New York. Etheridge earned the doctor of musical arts degree in clarinet performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied in the class of Stanley Hasty. Other principal teachers included Val P. Henrich and Jerry Neil Smith. Etheridge also studied with Rudolph Jettel (Vienna Conservatory), Ulysses Delecluse (Paris Conservatory), Jack Brymer (London) and Michael Incenzo (Rome Conservatory).

Etheridge is an active soloist and recitalist. He appears regularly with the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet, which has performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, the Eisenstadt Festival in Austria and twice before conferences of the National Association for Music Education. He has appeared as a recitalist and conductor at the International Clarinet Conferences in Denver (1981 and 1983), Seattle (1986), Lubbock (1997), Columbus (1998), Osten, Belgium (1999) and most recently as a lecturer in Stockholm, Sweden (2002). Etheridge has performed at the Montevallo Clarinet Symposium in the Montana/Idaho Clarinet Festival, the Mid-West Clarinet Symposium and the Brazil Clarinet Symposium III, which was held in Salvador, Brazil. He has served as a clinician for state music conventions for the California Band Directors Association and the Colorado, Oklahoma and New York music educators' associations and has adjudicated in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Missouri. For 11 years a member of the artist faculty of the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, Etheridge was a featured lecturer at the 1997 International Clarinet Society conference at Lubbock, Texas, and performed with Jozsef Balogh at the society's 1988 conference at Columbus, Ohio. In 1998, 1999 and 2001 he served on the artist faculty of the Hungarian International Clarinet Camp.

Etheridge is the author of a number of articles that have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Woodwind World and the Journal for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. He also has written a book, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View, published by Pelican Books. Etheridge is founder of the internationally acclaimed OU Clarinet Symposium, now in its 30th year. He served two terms as vice president of the International Clarinet Society, and his honors include the Amoco Foundation Award for Good Teaching, received in 1987, and the OU Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, awarded in 1992.

Dr. Garry Evans

Garry Evans is Assistant Professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.  He is the director of the TWU Wind Ensemble and clarinetist with the faculty instrumental ensemble, the Zephyr Winds. 
Dr. Evans serves as E-flat clarinetist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, “America’s Premier Wind Band,” under the direction of Jerry Junkin. 
In July of 2008, he appeared as a featured artist at the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest® in Kansas City, Missouri performing a newly commissioned work by award-winning composer Robert Jager.  He has been a featured soloist with the North Texas Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon and has recorded extensively under Mr. Corporon’s baton over the past decade.  Dr. Evans is a former principal clarinetist with the Garland and Las Colinas Symphony Orchestras and was the highest ranked American in the 2001 International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, finishing second.  His teachers include James Gillespie, John Scott, Dan Hearn, and Bruce Dinkins.  He is a member of The Recording Academy and is a Selmer artist/clinician.

Sgt. Vincent Fortado

Dr. Richard MacDowell

Clarinettist Richard MacDowell has taught and performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad . . His study and degrees are from the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, and Florida State University. He has studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus, Stanly Hasty, Leon Russianoff, and Fred Ormand.  He is known to be one of the strongest pedagogues in the Marcellus and Hasty traditions. Before coming to the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Associate Professor of Clarinet, he taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy at Interlochen, Michigan for a number of years.
He has been on the faculty of the Banff Festival in Alberta, Canada, giving a week of master classes to international students. While there he participated in two recitals, one of which featured the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. He was principal clarinet in a two -week orchestra festival in the Dominican Republic, the Northwood Orchestra in Harbor Springs, Michigan, the Killington Music Festival in Vermont, the Kapalua Festival in Maui, Hawaii, and a frequent clinician and performer in the International Clarinet Association annual festival, and the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium.
He has given recitals and master classes at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Locally, he’s been the principal clarinet of the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Lakewood Ensemble of Dallas, Mozart-fest of Austin, the Chamber Soloists of Austin, Salon Concerts, and the Victoria Bach Festival. He has adjudicated the Texas  Solo and Ensemble competition for the last 12 years.

Adam Myers

Leaving his hometown of San Antonio, Mr. Myers earned his Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance from the University of North Texas in 2001 where he was a member of the noted Wind Symphony and was named Outstanding Undergraduate in Woodwinds his senior year.  In 2004, he received his Master of Music in Clarinet Performance from Southern Methodist University and was an Artistic Scholarship recipient each year.  His teachers include Morgan King, Eric Nestler, Daryl Coad, Andy Crisanti and Paul Garner.

Prior to moving to Tyler, Mr. Myers was the woodwinds chair of Tin Roof Tango, an arts in education world fusion ensemble based in Dallas.  He is currently the Woodwind Instructor and Assistant Director of Bands at Tyler Junior College.  He teaches applied flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and saxophone.  He also directs the Symphonic Band and assists with both the Wind Ensemble and the Apache Marching Band.  Since 2008 he has also been on faculty at East Texas Baptist University.  Mr. Myers continues to teach privately and give clinics at Tyler area schools.

Ysabel Sarte

Ysabel Sarte is a clarinetist and music educator currently working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She has previously worked in California, Tennessee and Washington State. Ysabel holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, where she was a double major in Clarinet Performance and Music History. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Tennessee School of Music, where she majored in Clarinet Performance and was a graduate teaching assistant for the clarinet studio.  She has played for numerous clarinet master classes, including those with Richard Hawkins, Robert Spring, Andrew Lamy, Luis Baez and Eugene Mondie. Ysabel has performed with the Stockton Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Missouri Chamber Orchestra and the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra. She was a member of the clarinet quartet Quatuor Ventus, which gave a recital at the 2005 International Clarinet Association's annual convention in Tokyo, Japan. Ysabel's primary teachers are Patricia Shands, Gary Sperl and
George Nemeth.

Currently, Ysabel maintains a private studio of 40 clarinet students and is on adjunct faculty at the Texas A&M University - Commerce Department of Music.

Dr. John Scott

John Scott is Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Texas. He is a member of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with such orchestras as the Dallas Symphony and the Ft. Worth Symphony, and as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States. His performances have included the Victoria Bach Festival in Texas, the New York University Contemporary Music Festival, and at conferences and workshops in Denver, Tempe, Lubbock, Salt Lake City, San Juan, Ostend, Stockholm, London, Paris and Vancouver as well as in recitals and master classes throughout Taiwan and Japan. He performs regularly with Chamber Music International.  Recordings include "Birdsongs, Romantic Chamber Music of Arthur Bird," and “Equipoise.”  He is a member of the Texas Clarinet Consort.

He has been a member of the University of North Texas College of Music faculty since 1981. Prior to joining the UNT faculty he taught at Susquehanna University (PA) and Augusta State University (GA). He earned both the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degree in applied woodwinds and music literature from Indiana University (Bloomington), where he was a clarinet student of Henry Gulick.

His former students have held positions in numerous orchestras, schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States and in premier military bands in Washington, D.C. Several have been semi-finalists and prizewinners in the I.C.A. Young Artist Competition and Orchestral Competition.

He has served as reviewer, Music Review Editor and Advertising Manager for The Clarinet, journal of the International Clarinet Association. In addition to his duties as Professor of Clarinet, he serves as Associate Dean for Admissions and Scholarship Services in the College of Music at the University of North Texas.  He is an artist-clinician for Buffet-Crampon and Rico Reeds.

Dr. Ronald Scott

Associate Professor Ronald Scott holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts with a major in conducting from Texas Tech University.  While pursuing his doctorate, he continued his clarinet studies with Dr. Robert Walzel, toured with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band and performed several engagements as an extra with the Lackland Air Force Base Band of the West.  In addition to his conducting interests, Ron’s musical pursuits continue to include performing and teaching as a clarinetist.  During the past seven years at Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi, his performance credits include the New Sousa Band and the Corpus Christi and Victoria Symphony Orchestras.  He has also appeared as a solo recitalist and engaged in a number of chamber music ventures on campus and touring with faculty colleagues.  In addition to similar endeavors during his earlier tenure at Fort Hays State University, he was featured as a soloist with the Hays (Kansas) Symphony and later with the Brazosport (Texas) Symphony Orchestra.  His publication credits include several works of Antonin Dvorak arranged for clarinet choir.  These arrangements appear on the approved contest music lists in Texas and other states and performances of them have been well-received at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention and at conferences of the International Clarinet Association (ClarinetFest®) in 1997 and 2008.

Dr. Jody Webb

Dr. Jody Webb is a much sought after teacher and performer in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  He recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance at the University of North Texas where he served as a teaching fellow.  He has been teaching in the Lewisville Independent School District for more than 15 years, and was the clarinet instructor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University from 2001-2004.  Many of his students have made the All-District, All-Region, and All-State Bands, and he is a frequent adjudicator at All-District, All-Region, and Solo and Ensemble festivals.  In 2007, two of his students were finalists in the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium’s Young Artists’ Competition, while another student was a finalist in the International Clarinet Association’s High School Competition.  In 2008, he was invited to present a session on teaching pre-college students at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium.

            As a performer, Jody was a winner of the University of North Texas Concerto Competition and consequently performed with the UNT Symphony Orchestra in 2002.  In that same year, he traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, where he won the International Clarinet Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition.  In 2006 he performed at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, and in 2008 and 2009 he performed at the Northeast Texas Clarinet Day at Texas A&M in Commerce.  He has performed with The Dallas Wind Symphony, Dallas Opera, East Texas Symphony, Texas Chamber Orchestra, and the Garland/Las Colinas Symphony.

Jody obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of North Texas where he studied with John Scott, and his Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University where he was a student of Steve Cohen.  Other teachers include James Gillespie, Vin Richards, Jan Scott, and Clifford Franklin.

Gary Whitman

Gary Whitman is Professor of Clarinet and Division Chair of Woodwinds at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.  Active as a recitalist, he has performed at ClarinetFest conferences in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Maryland, and Missouri. His performances at international conferences include Paris, France, Ostend, Belgium, Stockholm, Sweden, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Porto, Portugal. He has presented masterclasses in Mexico City, Peru, Belgium, and Puerto Rico. His chamber music affiliations include the Texas Clarinet Consort, and Trio Con Brio, a TCU faculty trio dedicated to performing and commissioning music for clarinet, viola, and piano. Trio Con Brio has presented 11 chamber music commissions in the past five years.  He has performed new works by Eric Ewazen in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as well as Osvaldo Golijov and Sebastian Currier at the “Cliburn at the Modern” series in Fort Worth.  In addition to his position at TCU, Mr. Whitman is the bass clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony, performing in the classical subscription series, “Pops”, the opera and ballet productions at Bass Performance Hall.  He holds the BME and MME degrees from the University of North Texas and was awarded the certificat de stage from the International Music Institute in Nice, France. In 2004, TCU conferred upon him the Dean’s Award for Research and Creativity and in 2009 the College of Fine Arts award for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar. Mr. Whitman is an artist-clinician for Buffet Crampon USA, Inc. and from 2008 to 2010 is serving   as President of the International Clarinet Association. 

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