Second Annual Northeast Texas Clarinet Day

Texas A&M University – Commerce

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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2008 GUEST CLINICIAN

 

Gary Whitman is Professor of Clarinet and Division Chair of Wind and Percussion Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Active as a recitalist, he has performed at ClarinetFest conferences in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Maryland. His performances at international conferences include Paris, France, Ostend, Belgium and Stockholm, Sweden. He has served as guest lecturer in wind performance and pedagogy at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, the Conservatory of Music “Josafat Roel Pineda” in Lima, Peru, the Stedelijk Conservatory in Oostende, Belgium, and the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. His chamber music affiliations include the Texas Clarinet Consort, and Trio Con Brio, a TCU faculty trio dedicated to performing and commissioning music for clarinet, viola, and piano. Trio Con Brio has completed successful tours of Arizona, Nevada, and California. On March 1, 2005, the trio performed the world premiere of Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano by Eric Ewazen in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to his position at TCU, Mr. Whitman is the bass clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony, performing in the classical subscription series, “Pops”, the opera and ballet productions at Bass Performance Hall. He holds the BME and MME degrees from the University of North Texas and was awarded the certificate de stage from the International Music Institute in Nice, France. His major teachers and mentors have been Lee Gibson, James Smith, Andrew Crisanti and Guy Deplus. In 2004, TCU conferred upon him the Dean’s Award for Research or Creativity. Mr. Whitman is an artist-clinician for Buffet Crampon USA, Inc. and is the President-Elect of the International Clarinet Association.