Musicians from Asia have excelled in Western classical music for so long now that it comes as a surprise when one of them makes news by doing so. That’s what happened when the then 27-year-old Han Kim ...
Evan Christopher began playing clarinet in junior high school in Long Beach, CA. His first introduction to New Orleans music was hearing Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens with Johnny Dodds and ...
Photo: Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Mariam Adam headlines Colorado Clarinet Day 2025. It seemed like a nice idea, recalls Professor of Clarinet Daniel Silver: Let’s gather together the ...
George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera, Porgy and Bess, a quintessentially American masterpiece, has had its share of jazz interpretations. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald visited the work in 1957 on ...
Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ensembles — and he wants to educate others on just that. Tokunaga, a first year ...
The Recital Hall is in the BYU Music Building. The show hosted students and musicians for the recital on March 4. (Yeremi Espinoza) The BYU Music Building Recital Hall hosted a clarinet studio recital ...
Griffin Woodard is a composer, bass clarinetist, and bandleader who believes in the transformative power of music. As an instrumentalist, Woodard’s primary focus is playing the bass clarinet in a jazz ...
Collaboration yields beautiful things. When the Dallas Symphony Orchestra debuts Jon Cziner’s new piece, Clarinet Concerto, Nov. 20 – 22 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the audience will ...
For a uniquely transformative Sunday afternoon, join classical music fans in-the-know for a rare performance of quintets by Mozart and Brahms on Sunday, April 1 ...