The Clarinetists of CSUF

Thanks to the wonderful CSUF School of Music clarinet studio players for a great year. The virtual School of Music Convocation was fun and I hope you had a chance to attend. Stay in touch and keep me posted on your practicing and playing until we see each other in-person in August

Due to the present pandemic, the CSUF School of Music and the Clarinetists of CSUF International Clarinet Masterclass Series has to cancel (postpone?) its four remaining public events with Joe Morris, Stanislav Golovin, Michael Wayne, and Afendi Yusef. The Series will of course return in 2020-21 once we together have successfully defeated our common enemy. Take care.

A taste of Brahms Quintet with me and Chiara Quartet in anticipation of the upcoming performance with violinists Glenn Dicterow and Ernest Salem, violist Jonah ...Sirota (from Chiara Quartet), and cellist Cecilia Tsan at Meng Hall in Fullerton, California on Sunday February 23rd at 3pm. Hope to see you there and that you enjoy this recording. See more

Excited to share the stage with Glenn Dicterow, former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic along with Jean Ferrandis, Ernest Salem, Jonah Sirota, Cecilia Tsan, Alison Edwards, Mikhail Korzhev. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, @ 3PM, Meng Concert Hall in Fullerton.Please join us for a very enticing chamber music program which will end with Brahms sublime clarinet Quintet.

Masterclass with James Kanter at the CSUF School of Music on Tuesday December 3 from 6-9pm In Room 127. Students from the CSUF Clarinet Studio will be performing. Entry is free and we welcome all who are interested to attend this event. PROGRAM Matt Rosen: Kovacs-Hommage a Richard Strauss Guilherme Batalha: Brahms Sonata no. 1 (1st & 2nd movement) ... David Oh: Stravinsky Three Pieces Christy Nguyen: Brahms Sonata no. 2 (1st movement) Julian Rymar: Orchestral Excerpts from Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Brahms Symphony nr. 3, Mendelssohn Symphony no. 3, Kodaly Dances from Galanta In the end of the class there will be opportunity to try James Kanter Mouthpieces to find out about his most recent designs and development in the craft. So bring your instruments

The 2019-20 Overall Grand Prize Winner of the CSUF School of Music Concerto Competition is Graduate clarinet student SPENCER DANIELSON with the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto, which he will perform at the CSUF Meng Hall with the CSUF Symphony Orchestra on Sunday March 1, 2020. Congratulations Spencer

A morning dance anybody with a view of Bill Anzalone's beautiful Louise's Gate? Weber's masterful composition with originality and imagination is an inspiration indeed; I have always wondered where Weber would have gone with his music had he lived another 20 years or so...

Why not spend the entire Saturday May 11 with first Mozart--I think we all know him--at 3pm, and then with Brahms himself (who just had his 186th birthday) at 8...pm on Saturday May 11th. Come and listen to Hungarian pianist Peter Nagy excelling in Brahms Quartet in A major for piano, violin, viola, and cello AND the 1894 irresistible masterwork, the sonata for piano and clarinet op. 120 no. 2. Try not to miss this "once-in-a lifetime" Fayetteville experience at the Grand Fayette Hotel, located right next to the Grand Fayette House:). For info and Tickets visit www.fayettevillechambermusic.net See more

Nielsen Clarinet Concerto on Sony Classical with Håkan Rosengren & Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The Clarinetists of CSUF congratulate Southern California based Victor Diaz, student of Yehuda Gilad at Colburn School of Music, for being awarded 3rd Prize in the 2019 Nielsen International Clarinet Competition.