 Kristina Belisle ICA Secretary Associate Professor of Clarinet University of Akron Akron, Ohio |
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Kristina Belisle is the Associate Professor
of Clarinet at the University of Akron, clarinetist of the Solaris
Wind Quintet, and Principal Clarinetist of the Akron Symphony.
An active soloist, Ms. Belisle has performed concertos with the
Houston Symphony, the Flint Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony,
and orchestras/wind ensembles throughout Arkansas and NorthEast
Ohio. She has won numerous awards including the 1993 William C.
Byrd National Young Artist Award for Winds and Brass and the 1992
Ima Hogg National Young Artist Award. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Renaud Chamber Music Series, the Fontana Festival of Music and Art, the Norfolk, Bowdoin, and Garth Newel Chamber Music Festivals. As a founding member of Southspoon Winds, a woodwind quintet based in New York City, she received top prizes in the Fishoff and Yellow Springs Competitions and was a finalist in the 1997 Concert Artist Guild Competition. Ms. Belisle holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University where she studied with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr. Internationally, Ms. Belisle has performed at the 2003 and 2000 International ClarFests, the 2002 Xi'an (China) International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival and has given masterclasses in China and Taiwan. Other national symposium appearances include the 1999 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Symposium (NACWPI), the 1999 Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, and regional clarinet conferences in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota and Ohio. |