Clarinet Day fine-tuned for Saturday

Arts & Entertainment – The Tropolitan

(GRAPHIC/ Kathleen Egbert)Troy University’s Clarinet Studio will be hosting the 10th annual Clarinet Day on Saturday, March 25, in Long Hall.



Draven Jackson
Staff Writer
Troy University’s Clarinet Studio will be hosting the tenth annual Clarinet Day on Saturday, March 25 in Long Hall.
Clarinet Day brings together college and high school clarinet players to play in a large clarinet concert, and learn more about the clarinet and playing the clarinet from guest artists and clarinet specialists.
Timothy Phillips, associate professor of clarinet, began Clarinet Day 10 years ago in order to give high school students an opportunity to come to the Troy campus and see exciting clarinet performances.
“Clarinet Day is a good learning experience for the high school students and the college students, and I am personally excited to have all of these students here to see what we do,” Phillips said.
He said the artists that come to Clarinet Day are among the best in the world.
“I am really proud of the high level of performers that come here as guest artists and that to me is one of the best parts of Clarinet Day,” Phillips said, “because some of these students have never heard a professional clarinet player before and they are always totally entranced by how good these people are.”
This year, there will be many different visitors coming to Troy University to be a part of Clarinet Day.
Florent Héau and Gabor Vega, who are travelling all the way from France and Hungary to Troy, are two of the guest performers for the event. Ramón Wodkowski, a mouthpiece craftsman, will be doing a lecture on the history of mouthpieces and mouthpiece acoustics,ww and will also be around to work on mouthpieces for clarinetists at the event.
Some of the other guests playing at Clarinet Day will be Katrina Phillips, Jennifer Fraley, Wonkak ...


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