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Clarinet Day
Featuring Dr. Arthur Campbell
Master class, workshops, performance, clarinet choir
Saturday, July 26, 2014
10am - evening
United Methodist Church, 117 S. Division St., Whitehall
Registration $30 (includes lunch)
Schedule:
10:00 a.m. Check in/Coffee & Donuts
10:30 – 11:30 Workshop - Arthur Campbell
11:30 a.m. Break
11:45 - 12:45 Workshop - Arthur Campbell
1:00 p.m. Lunch (on site)
2:00 p.m. Managing Performance Nerves - Arthur Campbell
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Clarinet Choir Reading Session with Henry E. Duitman (adults and college students)
5:00 p.m. Dinner break on your own
7:00 p.m. Performance Arthur Campbell @ Ferry Memorial Church
(open to public free of charge)
8637 Old Channel Trail, Montague
To register: Click here for on-line registration OR please download Registration Form and mail with $30 to:
Arts Council of White Lake/Clarinet Day
8695 Ferry St. Suite 1
Montague, MI 49437
We encourage application by July 20 to help us plan for the event.
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Directions to Clarinet DayFrom Grand Rapids:
Take I-96 West to US 31 North. Take the Whitehall/Colby St. Exit. Turn west/right onto Colby St. Turn left on Division St. Clarinet Day will take place at the United Methodist Church, 117 S. Division St. Church is in the 1st block, left hand side, behind Wesco. From the North: Take US 31 South. Take the Whitehall/Colby St. Exit. Turn west/right onto Colby St. Turn left on Division St. Clarinet Day will take place at the United Methodist Church, 117 S. Division St. Church is in the 1st block, left hand side, behind Wesco. | ||||
Dr. Arthur Campbell
Biography
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist, Arthur Campbell has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, has performed in some of the world's most prestigious venues, and has a celebrated solo recording career. Reviews in preeminent classical music publications over the past two decades have consistently celebrated Arthur Campbell as one of the world's leading clarinet virtuosos. Campbell was nominated this fall, with pianist Dr. Helen Marlais, for the 2013 International Classical Music Awards, one of the most prestigious distinctions available to classical musicians today. Spring 2012 saw Germany's classical music magazine Fono Forum select the Campbell/Marlais duo for the "Star of the Month" award, and Stereo Magazine selected their most recent recording as "CD of the Month." In 2010, The New York Times hailed Campbell as an "eloquent soloist" following his Merkin Hall concerto debut, and in 2007, his recording Brahms: Clarinet Chamber Music, won critics choice awards in Luxembourg, France, and Spain. Campbell has received extensive domestic and international critical acclaim. (See Press) Campbell's classical recordings are exclusively with the German Audiophile label Audite. (See Recordings) His most recent recording with Audite, Quartets for Clarinet and Strings by Carl Stamitz was recorded in Munich in November 2011 and released in February of 2013.
In addition to his highly praised performances of the standard canon, Arthur Campbell is recognized as one of the foremost champions of contemporary repertoire of his generation. He has recorded contemporary repertoire releases for Everglade Records, Centaur Records, Gasparo Records, and the ICA recording Project. The official journal of the International Clarinet Association, regarding the premiere recording of Three Scenes for Solo Clarinet by Pulitzer Prize winner Shulamit Ran states, "The performance of this work is exceptional. Campbell's tone, phrasing and dynamic contrast really portray the essence of this piece, a work which will most likely become a standard in the clarinet repertoire." More recently, Campbell's live performance of Benjamin Broening's Radiance at the 2011 National SEAMUS Convention was selected for the Best of SEAMUS award. Campbell has had pieces written expressly for him by some of today's most distinguished composers as well as younger composers whom he has helped to launch. (See Premieres and Commissions)
Also in great demand as a master teacher, Dr. Campbell has presented master classes at top pedagogical institutions literally throughout the world. (See Masterclasses) Campbell received the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University, where he studied with renowned clarinetist and pedagogue Robert Marcellus. Campbell has won several international and national competitions (See Awards) and holds the distinction of being one of only three people ever to have completed a doctoral degree as a student of the late Marcellus. A native of Canada, Campbell grew up in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where he studied at the Mount Allison University Conservatory of Music. Home base is now Grand Rapids Michigan with his wife, pianist and renowned piano pedagogue, Dr. Helen Marlais (www.HelenMarlais.com). Campbell is Artist Faculty and Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University, where he has built a thriving studio of clarinet students from around the corner to around the globe.
Clarinet Choir Reading Sessions
Henry E. Duitman
Grand Valley State University
Associate Professor
Director of Orchestras
Henry Duitman joined the faculty of Grand Valley State University in the Fall of 2008. For more than 20 years Duitman was the Music Director and Conductor of the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra as well as Professor of Music on the faculty of Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, during which time he built an orchestra program with national exposure.
Henry Duitman received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State University and Master of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from the Ohio State University.
Dr. Duitman’s focus at GVSU has been exposing the orchestra program to the wider West Michigan community and to high schools throughout Michigan. He has instituted a yearly Side-by-Side Concert with top high school orchestras. In addition, his passion to develop an honors orchestra which would focus on the development of leadership skills in high school musicians has led to the highly successful GVSU String Leadership Day, which brings more than 100 of the finest high school string players to campus each year.
A sought-after guest conductor, recently he has led community and professional orchestras in Michigan and London, England. He conducted the 2010 Iowa All-State Orchestra and, in July 2012, was the conductor of members of the GVSU Orchestra who performed as part of a ground-breaking webcast with their live performance synchronized with dancers in London and The Hague.
Dr. Duitman’s deep interest in music education and his many years of experience conducting orchestras, bands, and choirs add to the recognized quality of GVSU’s music education program.
Grand Valley State University
Associate Professor
Director of Orchestras
Henry Duitman joined the faculty of Grand Valley State University in the Fall of 2008. For more than 20 years Duitman was the Music Director and Conductor of the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra as well as Professor of Music on the faculty of Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, during which time he built an orchestra program with national exposure.
Henry Duitman received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State University and Master of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from the Ohio State University.
Dr. Duitman’s focus at GVSU has been exposing the orchestra program to the wider West Michigan community and to high schools throughout Michigan. He has instituted a yearly Side-by-Side Concert with top high school orchestras. In addition, his passion to develop an honors orchestra which would focus on the development of leadership skills in high school musicians has led to the highly successful GVSU String Leadership Day, which brings more than 100 of the finest high school string players to campus each year.
A sought-after guest conductor, recently he has led community and professional orchestras in Michigan and London, England. He conducted the 2010 Iowa All-State Orchestra and, in July 2012, was the conductor of members of the GVSU Orchestra who performed as part of a ground-breaking webcast with their live performance synchronized with dancers in London and The Hague.
Dr. Duitman’s deep interest in music education and his many years of experience conducting orchestras, bands, and choirs add to the recognized quality of GVSU’s music education program.
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Clarinet Day Registration: Please print off, fill out, enclose $30, and mail to:
ACWL/Clarinet Day
8695 Ferry St. Suite 1
Montague, MI 49437
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