 James Gillespie Regents Professor of Music Unviersity of North Texas Denton, Texas |
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James Gillespie serves as Regents Professor
of Music at the University of North Texas in Denton. Prior to joining
the U. N. T. faculty
in 1978, he served as a faculty member at Concord College, Indiana
State University (adjunct), University of Redlands and Northeast
Louisiana University
(Monroe). He holds the master's and doctorate degrees in clarinet/woodwinds
from Indiana University where he studied clarinet with Henry Gulick.
He has also studied with Mitchell Lurie. His reference books on
works for reed
trio and solos for unaccompanied clarinet have become standard
references in the field, and he has edited works for Musica Rara,
Southern Music Company
and Billaudot. For the past 26 years he has been the editor of
The Clarinet, the quarterly journal of the International Clarinet
Association. He has
performed at clarinet conferences in Denver, Oberlin, Quebec, Cincinnati,
Tempe, Columbus, Lubbock, Oklahoma, Fresno, Ostend, Stockholm,
China, Salt Lake City and Paris and has also given solo and chamber
music recitals in
England, Scotland, Japan, Hong Kong, Hungary, Germany, Puerto Rico
and Taiwan. Composers from France, England, Belgium and the United
States have dedicated
works to him, and he has premiered several new works for clarinet.
In 1994, 1995 and 1997 he served on the jury for the Dos Hermanas
International Clarinet
Competition in Spain, and during the summer of 1997 he performed
at the I. C. A. ClarinetFest at Texas Tech, the Cracow Clarinet
Festival in Cracow,
Poland and the first-ever European Clarinet & Saxophone Conference in
Budapest, Hungary. He performs as a member of the Texas Clarinet
Consort. His former students hold positions in numerous colleges
and universities throughout the United States and in major military bands
in Washington,
D.C. Several have been semi-finalists and prizewinners in the I.C.A.
Young
Artist Competition and on two occasions winners in the clarinet
category of the Yamaha Young Performing Artist program. He is an
artist/clinician for G. Leblanc Corp. and Rico International. " . . . super clarinet playing." Clarinet and Saxophone (England) " . . . truly a pleasure to listen to, with all the smoothness and control that really mark the musician at the instrument." Mitchell Lurie " . . . Beautiful sound, admirable dynamic range, sensitive phrasing, and, perhaps the most impressive facet of his artistry: his impeccable itonation. . . should his next British recital take place in the Outer Hebrides, anybody who appreciates fine clarinet playing should make every attempt to hear him." Crescendo (England) " . . . would have been a sensation at even the most prestigious festivals in the world . . . excellent . . . particularly outstanding." Gazeta Wyborcza (Cracow, Poland) |