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There are many hotels within walking distance of the main event venue, the Songdo ConvensiA, which is located at 123 Central-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, South Korea. https://maps.app.goo.gl/ns9WrEp6SF3EpRVc8 The hotels that are the closest to the ConvensiA are the Sheraton Grand and the Oakwood Premiere Hotel. Booking links for the hotels can be found below. These are in order based on distance from the Songdo ConvensiA. Oakwood Premiere Hotel (0.1 miles away) Sheraton Grand Incheon Hotel (0.2 miles away) Orakai Songdo Park Hotel (0.3 miles away) Songdo Central Park Hotel (0.5 miles away) Bridge Hotel Incheon Songdo (0.5...
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(Web version of March 2017 column, Vol. 44/2 print column) By Kellie Lignitz-Hahn and Bret Pimentel Creating an Online Presence: Advantages and Getting Started Part 1: Getting Started Today, more and more musicians are creating websites and establishing an online presence as a marketing tool. Current technology offers free or inexpensive options and various outlets for developing personal websites, including sites with built-in features to assist those with limited technological experience. In this first installment of a series of columns on creating an online presence, we will explore ways and share ideas on how to effectively market yourself on the...
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Report by Melissa Morales The final event for ClarinetFest® 2016 took place on Sunday, August 7 at 3 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. The Festival Clarinet Choir was comprised of 35 members and was led by conductor Raphael Sanders. The choir opened with Claribel (2000) by Roland Cardon. They played with a full, lush sound and brought the melodies to life, accentuating the fun and comical character. Following the Cardon was a quartet feature piece Concertante for 4 clarinets and Orchestra (1833) by L.A.B. Schindelmeisser. The choir was accompanied by four esteemed clarinetists: Julianne Kirk Doyle (Suny Potsdam), Blake Arrington (United States...
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Report by Melissa Morales The final evening concert for ClarinetFest® 2016 took place Saturday night at 8:15 p.m. in the Kansas Lied Center Auditorium. The concert was hosted by Buffet Crampon, one of the festival's platinum sponsors. Before the performances began, President and CEO Francois Kloc gave an encouraging talk about the power of music and the community we all belong to. His address was kind, inspiring, and laced with humor, warming the audience for the thrilling performances to come. The evening featured several Buffet artists during the evening and all gave rousing performances as the conference began to draw...
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Report by Melissa Morales and Rachel Yoder At 7:30 p.m. on August 6, the ICA Awards Ceremony was held at the Lied Center of Kansas. President Caroline Hartig began by thanking ClarinetFest® Artistic Directors Bob Walzel and Stephanie Zelnick for their work in organizing the festival. A moment of silence was held for clarinetists that had passed on in the past year. Next, Hartig announced that the ICA had voted to award three clarinetists with Honorary Memberships, who will be recognized at the 2017 ClarinetFest® in Orlando, Florida: Eddie Daniels Luis Rossi Richard Stoltzman Hartig thanked John Cipolla for completing six...
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Report by Lisa Kachouee Dr. Jonathan Guist, Associate Professor of Clarinet, led the University of Texas Rio Grande, Brownsville Clarinet Ensemble at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, August 7, in Crafton-Preyer Theatre. Reflecting his commitment to new music and expanding the clarinet choir repertoire, Guist programmed two works by young composers. The first piece, new(er) counterpoint, was composed by UTRGB student Mathew Campbell. Profoundly affected and inspired by the music of Steve Reich, Campbell originally composed new counterpoint for flute choir in 2012. Versions for strings and marimba quartet (2014) and saxophone choir (2015) followed. The clarinet choir version was composed for...
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Report by Emily G. Kerski Sunday morning opened at 9 a.m. with a unique concert in Swarthout Recital Hall celebrating the recent clarinet works of James M. David, professor of composition at Colorado State University. David was joined by his CSU colleagues and other Colorado-based clarinetists who performed four of his solo and chamber pieces. This was David's seventh ClarinetFest® appearance. The program's theme was derived from the quote: "writing about music is like dancing about architecture," a notion that spoke to the abstract and subconscious nature of music. David introduced and gave a brief background of each piece before it was performed. The program opened with Fantasy Etudes Book V,...
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Report by Emily G. Kerski Dalcroze expert and Yamaha artist Dr. Lori Baruth presented a master class titled "How to Incorporate Dalcroze Eurhythmics Into Your Practice and Studio Teaching" at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in the Inge Memorial Theatre. This interactive class gave attendees a taste of the Dalcroze music education method, which focused on an integration of physical, cognitive and creative processes. The goal was to provide teachers additional tools to help the student visualize and feel the music in a way perhaps more effective and natural than the traditional metronome alone practice methods. Benefits of the method, according to Baruth's...
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Report by Emily G. Kerski On Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m., the opening recital, "Clarinet Alone," explored repertoire for the unaccompanied clarinet. The recital took place in Swarthout Recital Hall and featured six performers presenting pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. Jonathan Guist opened the program with an assured performance of Samuel Robles' mysterious Fantasia for Clarinet in A. Amanda McCandless then took the stage to perform Theresa Martin's Light and Shadows. McCandless, an avid performer and researcher of unaccompanied clarinet music by women, gave an excellent introduction to the piece and acknowledged Martin's presence in the audience that morning. Martin's popularity has grown, as her clarinet solo and chamber...
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Report by Emily G. Kerski The dynamic 4REEDS Ensemble, comprised of clarinetists Meghan Merciers, Nikolasa Tejero, Brian Viliunas and bass clarinetist Nicholas Hartline, presented a lecture-recital about Piazzolla's tango repertoire on Friday, August 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Spahr Auditorium. The clarinet quartet gave a stylish performance of two iconic Piazzolla works: Histoire du Tango and Oblivion, both published in the late 1980s. The performances presented a thorough explanation of the musical ingredients of Piazzolla's tango and its development as a genre from 1900 to the present day. The ensemble performed the Bruce Edwards adaptation of the saxophone quartet version of Histoire and the Jeremy Eig arrangement of Oblivion. Histoire can be performed on a variety of different clarinets, but 4REEDS selected the...
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