![]() His collaborative spirit is reflected in his life as a composer as well, drawing inspiration from a personal and communicative place. ![]() His current performance projects center around cross-genre, electronic music, and newly composed solo/chamber works. As clarinetist, he has performed with members of Eighth Blackbird, Fifth House Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Sounds Modern, Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, and has attended festivals such as Blackbird Creative Lab, Fresh Inc, Cortona Sessions for New Music, Atlantic Music Festival, and Masterworks Festival. "Clarinetist, composer, educator, and new music collaborator Luke Ellard strives for art that continually reaches out, valuing a relational spirit, informed engagement, and unapologetic authenticity.įor Luke, collaboration is what gives music life. Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. Erin is currently pursuing her doctorate in clarinet performance at the University of North Texas, studying with Kimberly Cole Luevano she also holds degrees from Bowling Green State University and Northwestern University."-Erin Cameron Website ( ) In her free time, Erin enjoys vegetarian cooking and nature walks. Her compositions have been performed in collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble and Chicago's Zafa Collective. An avid proponent of new music, she has performed over 30 world and regional premieres of new works by Kirsten Broberg, Daniel Harrison, Amy Dunker, and many others. ![]() She serves as a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas and maintains an active clarinet studio in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Erin is an active educator and has worked with young musicians and artists at The Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. Her clarinet playing has been heard in performances across the country, including appearances on Toledo's WGTE radio station, with the North Texas Wind Symphony and Toledo Symphony, and on the Sounds Modern concert series in Fort Worth, Texas. 1993) enjoys a diverse career as a clarinetist, composer, and educator. Get additional information at Brian Olewnick's Just Outside Excellent work all around."-Brian Olewnick, Just Outside Reeder's piano is especially poignant on the closing composition, just barely verging on melody. Sometimes more somber, sometimes more wistful, but always with a sense of soft languidness. ![]() There are wonderfully subtle contrasts in tone between the like instruments (bass clarinets and flutes), never going for mere effect, the tenderness coming first, elegiac but not sorrowful. All slow, tonal, with no repeating melodies or rhythms, the lines from each pair of instruments gently entwining. The compositions are of a piece, in a sense, though well differentiated. ![]() Four pieces, all duets: 'folie à deux i' (Erin Cameron and Luke Ellard, bass clarinets), 'somewhere, some place else' (Jonathan Kierspe, saxophone, Samuel Anderson, bass trombone), 'folie à deux iii' (Alaina Clarice and Linda Jenkins, flutes) and 'hiro yokose' (Mia Detwiler, violin, Reeder, piano). "I believe this is the first recording of Reeder's work (fwiw, I can't see any listing for the seven other musicians on Discogs either). ![]()
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