May 10, 2002

Recital de muzica americana sustinut de J. David Harris, clarinet

 

Cu prilejul Festivalului International "Jeunesses Musicales" -Bucuresti, Centrul Cultural American are placerea sa invite jurnalistii interesati sa participe la un recital de muzica americana sustinut de J. David Harris, clarinet.

Programul va include "Sonata pentru clarinet si pian" de Leonard Bernstein, "Trei preludii pentru clarinet si pian de George Gershwin" in adaptarea lui James Cohn. Recitalul va include si "Sonatina pentru clarinet si pian" de Joseph Horowitz si "Rapsodia pentru clarinet solo" de Wilson Osborne. La pian va acompania Verona Maier.

Recitalul va avea loc luni 13 mai, la ora 18:00, la Centrul Cultural American, str. Jean Louis Calderon nr. 7-9. Accesul se va face pe baza legitimatiilor de presa.

J.David Harris
Associate Professor - Clarinet and Chair of the Woodwind Division

B.M. and M.M. (clarinet performance), Cleveland Institute of Music; additional studies at the Blossom Festival School, Sewanee Summer Music Center, and Tennessee Temple College; student of Robert Marcellus, James Livingston, William Scarlett, and Frank Witherspoon.

Harris has played with the Cleveland Orchestra on many occasions as extra and substitute clarinet. He was first clarinet with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds and for six seasons was principal clarinet with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. He has taught at Louisiana State University, Kent State University, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Sewanee Summer Music Center.

He has appeared as soloist with the Baton Rouge Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Sinfonia da Camera, and as guest principal clarinet with the Knoxville Symphony. As principal clarinetist with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, he was soloist in a performance of the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto.

He is also principal clarinetist with Sinfonia da Camera, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, and the UIUC Summer Music Festival Orchestra. Harris has been a featured performer for the International Clarinet Society Congress, Clarinetwork International, and the International Double Reed Society in Manchester, England. He is an extensive recitalist, and during the summer months serves as principal clarinet with the Great Music Festival of the West Orchestra. Professor Harris is treasurer of Zeta Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, Honor Society in Music.