Performance & Class Schedule for the Clarinet Festival

MASTER CLASSES

10:00 Wolfgang Lohff Instrument selection and repair

10:30 Brad Whitfield Performance master class - Student Performer is Megan Amrine

11:00 Robert Janssen Presentation: Traveling the Road to Success. Destination, First Chair - Student Performer is Cannon Spidle

11:30 Tabitha Robinson All About That Bass...Until It's Not: Playing Above the Staff on Bass Clarinet - any bass enthusiast can perform

12:00 Michael Saddekni Jazz improvisation class - all invited to perform

12:30 Brian Viliunas Negotiation, Neuroscience and the Clarinet - Student Performer is Andrew Robertson

1:00 Lisa Canning Entrepreneurial careers in music

1:30 Mark Cramer "Clarinet Concepts: The Art of Breathing" - Student Performer is Ashlyn Berry

2:00 Liz Aleksander Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Tips for Playing and Performing Musically - Student Performer is Kmya Burrell

2:30 Meghan Merciers Strategies for Injury Prevention and Recovery for Clarinetists - Student Performer is Emily Key

3:00 Lisa Oberlander Focus on the Fundamentals in Your Repertoire - Student Performer is Joshua Kelley

3:30 Osiris J. Molina Establishing a Healthy Relationship with your Mouthpiece - Student Performer is Wyatt Smith-Moody

Program - Performance Summary

10:00 Brad Whitfield, from the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by Laurie Middaugh, Festival Accompanist & University of Montevallo Accompanist

Duo Concertant by Darius Milhaud
Sonata by Camille St. Saens

10:30 Michael Westmoreland, clarinet, and Kristofer Sanchack, piano, both professors at Alabama State University

The Shadows of October by Michael Whalen
Richmond Hill by Michael Whalen
Four Characteristic Pieces for Clarinet and Piano by William Y. Hurlstone

11:00 Lori Ardovino, clarinet, with Brittney Patterson, flute, and Laurie Middaugh, piano, all professors at University of Montevallo

The Nine Worlds by Lori F. Ardovino
For flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, and piano

11:30 Jorge Diez, clarinet, University of Alabama student, with Ashley Overby, viola, University of Alabama professor, and Laurie Middaugh, piano,

Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano op.83 by Bruch
Premier Rhapsody by Debussy

12:00 Robert Janssen, clarinet & saxophone, Alabama School of Fine Arts Faculty, and Laurie Middaugh, piano,

Romance by William Grant Still (arr. by Marcus Eley)
Sonata No. 2, Opus 120 by Johannes Brahms

I. Allegro amabile

Saxophone Sonata Opus 12, No. 1 by Lawson Lunde

II. Andantino cantabile

Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano by Malcolm Arnold

I. Allegro con brio

12:30 Alabama Winds Clarinet Quartet, from Tuscaloosa, AL: Cheryl O'Brien, Tabitha Robinson, Leah Seng, and Joanna Finch

Bagatelle by Claire Grundman
9 Tangos by Astor Piazzolla
IV. Oblivion
V. Villeguita
Country Gardens arr. by Larry Clark
La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin arr. by Willy Hautvast
The Skye Boat Song arr/ by Kate Agioritis
Clarintella by Robert Storms
Entry of the Gladiators by Bill Holoombe & Kris Dorsey
Shepherd's Hey arr. by Michael Boone

1:00 Vuorovesi Trio: Osiris Molina, clarinet, with Diane Boyd Schultz, flute, and Mary Lindsey Bailey, oboe, all professors at University of Alabama

Conundrums for solo clarinet (1997) by Brian Kershner
Fabula (2016) by Ivan Enrique Rodriquez
Espacios Diferentes (2019) by Javier Zalba

1:30 Michael Saddekni, clarinet, with Chuck King, trumpet, Tony Lombardo, banjo, and Leah Pogwizd, bass, all Birmingham freelance musicians & teachers

Selections from New Orleans Jazz

2:00 Lisa Oberlander, clarinet, Columbus State University professor, Columbus, GA

Suite No. 2, BWV 1008 by J.S. Bach (arr. by Trent Kynaston)

Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Minuet I and II
Gigue

2:30 Mark Cramer, clarinet, Tennessee Tech University professor, and Laurie Middaugh, piano

Clarinet Sonata by Francis Poulenc
Lensky's Aria by Tchaikovsky (arr. by Rubtsov)
Three Smiles for Tracey by Adolphus Hailstork
Shalom Aleichem, Rov Feidman! by Bela Kovacs

3:00 Liz Aleksander, clarinet, University of Tennessee at Martin professor, and Laurie Middaugh, piano

Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano (1900) by Augusta Holmes
Capriccio (1946) by Heinrich Sutermeister
Tonada y Cueca (1965) by Carlos Guastavino

3:30 UNA Duo: Meghan Merciers, clarinet, and Whitney O'Neal, flute, both University of North Alabama professors

Blue Monkey (2015) by Lauren Bernofsky
Duos for Flute and Clarinet (1991) by Robert Muczynski
Selections from Ragtime Miniatures, Set 2 (1999) by Patricia Holmberg
Portraits of Langston (rev. 2014) by Valerie Coleman

I. Prelude: Helen Keller
III. Le Grand Duc Mambo

Maraschino (2014) by Nicole Chamberlain
Opening Doors (2022) by Lori Ardovino

4:00 Awards & Finale with all clarinetists at the festival onstage

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Arlen & Harburg

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

The Competition will begin at 1:00 pm in the Competition Room.