Clarinettissimo 2024 Day 2
Free
- Guy Yehuda, clarinet
Luigi Bassi / Giuseppe Verdi — Concert Fantasia on Motives from Rigoletto for Clarinet and Piano
Johann Baptist Vanhal — Clarinet Sonata in B-flat major
Claude Arrieu (Louise-Marie Simon) — Cinq Mouvements
Magne Furuholmen / Morten Harket / Pål Waaktaar — Take On Me (arr. for clarinet choir)
Clarinettissimo is the Northwest's premier Clarinet Festival. Now in its 24th year, this free festival is held every year during the first weekend in October. This year's special guest is Michigan State University Professor Guy Yehuda.
Schedule:
12pm: Vendors Open
1pm-2:30pm: Guy Yehuda Master Class
3pm-4pm: Clarinet Olympics (age 8-18)—win prizes for completing events
4:30pm-5:30pm: Community Clarinet Choir rehearsal—all are welcome
5:30pm: Vendors Close for the Year, Dinner Break
7:30pm: Clarinettissimo 2024 Concert
About Clarinettissimo
Clarinettissimo is the Northwest's premier Clarinet Festival. This free festival is held every year during the first weekend in October. Clarinetists come from all over the region, country, and world to participate in the concerts, master-classes, workshops, clarinet choir, and to shop the latest in clarinets, equipment, and music from local and international vendors. It is always the best time and place regionally to buy a new clarinet, mouthpiece, or other accessories, because of the extra inventory manufacturers send to the festival.
There are events for all kinds of clarinetists, from beginner to professional, including an inter-generational clarinet choir with participants from 8 to 80. The Clarinet Olympics rewards students with a swag-bag for completing clarinet "events" like a chromatic scale, taking part in a quartet. Master-classes are given by regional and international clarinet stars. Previous special guests have included performers with the National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Florida State University, The USA Navy Band, Philadelphia Orchestra, Slovenian National Symphony, and many others.
https://clarinettissimo.org