Clarinettissimo Festival – Day 2

Free festival includes master-classes, workshops, vendors, a community clarinet choir, and nightly performances.

National Symphony Orchestra principal clarinet Eugene Mondie is the special guest, performing both nights, and giving a masterclass Sunday afternoon.

Metropolitan Opera clarinetist Sean Osborn and SPU clarinet professor Mary Kantor will also perform and give master classes.
Alexander Technique workshop by Shawn Copeland.

Other performers include Kevin Johnson (piano), Jennifer Nelson and Florie Rothenberg (clarinets), and William Blayney (conductor).

Music of Brahms, Schumann, Nielsen, Bernstein, Marques, Messager, Baermann, Gabrielsky, Tenzer, and Strauss.

Schedule – Sunday, October 7
12:00pm – Vendors open – Come try clarinets, mouthpieces, barrels. Browse accessories and music.
1:00pm – Alexander Technique workshop with Shawn Copeland.
2:30pm – Eugene Mondie Master Class – email Sean Osborn to sign up to perform in the master class.
4:30pm – 5:30pm – Community Clarinet Choir rehearsal – anyone can participate. Parts available at info desk.
5:30pm – Dinner Break. Vendors close for the year.
7:00pm – Clarinettissimo 2018 concert.

About Clarinettissimo

Clarinettissimo is the Northwest's premier Clarinet Festival. This free festival is held every year during the first weekend in October. Clarinetists come from all over the region, country, and world to participate in the concerts, master-classes, workshops, clarinet choir, and to shop the latest in clarinets, equipment, and music from local and international vendors. It is always the best time and place regionally to buy a new clarinet, mouthpiece, or other accessories, because of the extra inventory manufacturers send to the festival.

There are events for all kinds of clarinetists, from beginner to professional, including an inter-generational clarinet choir with participants from 8 to 80. The Clarinet Olympics rewards students with a swag-bag for completing clarinet "events" like a chromatic scale, taking part in a quartet. Master-classes are given by regional and international clarinet stars. Previous special guests have included performers with the National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Florida State University, The USA Navy Band, Philadelphia Orchestra, Slovenian National Symphony, and many others.