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Ep. 127: Stephen Williamson, principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony

Release Date: 08/26/2020

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Ep. 144: Joseph Bohigian, composer and performer

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Ep. 143: Eugenia Forteza, "We don't just make pretty music, it has a message."

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Ep. 139: Rose Gear, executive director and bassist.

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Ep. 138: Jovino Santos Neto - pianist, composer, arranger, educator.

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Ep. 137: Joseph Young, conductor. "Don't wait for people to open doors for you."

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Praised for his suavely adventurous programing, Joseph Young is increasingly recognized as “one of the most gifted conductors of his generation.” Joseph is Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony, Artistic Director of Ensembles for the Peabody Conservatory, and Resident Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra–USA at Carnegie Hall. In recent years, he has made appearances with the Saint Louis Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Detroit Symphony among others.

Ep. 136: Vanessa Reed, President and CEO of New Music USA

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Ep. 127: Stephen Williamson, principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony.

In this podcast we talk about Williamson's journey from the Metropolitan Opera to Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. He talks about playing jazz piano, starting the saxophone before switching to clarinet, playing principal clarinet as a sophomore at the Eastman School of Music, having four chances to audition for the Chicago Symphony, family, weightlifting and much more!

Stephen Williamson is the principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, appointed in 2011 by Maestro Riccardo Muti. Mr. Williamson was formerly the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In addition, he has been a frequent guest principal clarinetist with the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra in Japan under Seiji Ozawa.

Mr. Williamson is currently on the faculty of DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He has served on the clarinet faculty at Columbia University and the Mannes College of Music in New York City, as well as at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan and the Domaine Forget International Music Festival in Québec. He has recorded for the Sony Classics, Telarc, CRI, BMG, Naxos and Decca labels and can be heard on numerous film soundtracks.

For more information about Stephen Williamson please visit: Principal Clarinet https://cso.org/about/performers/chic...

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