Our concert at UVIC on January 17th will be live streamed on the internet.
The concert will begin at 2:30pm PST.
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Cowal-Earle Duo in Point Roberts
Rory Cowal and I will be performing a concert of all Canadian works titled “Vignettes of Canada”, April 25th at 3pm at Trinity Community Lutheran Church in Point Roberts, USA.
Cascadia Reed Quintet at Kwantlen and UBC
The Cascadia Reed Quintet will be performing January 14th at 12pm at Kwantlen University in Langley BC.
Also, February 6th at 12pm we will be performing at the University of British Columbia, School of Music, Noon Hour Concert.
Both programmes will include works by Debussy, Rameau, Pärt, and more.
Trio Dolce At UVic and Silk Purse
Laine Longton, Clare Yuan, and I will be performing as Trio Dolce for the UVic Emerging Artists Alumni Series. We are all graduates of the music program at UVic and are trilled to return to UVic to perform. Our programme is titled Romantic Intuition featuring clarinet, cello, and piano trios by Brahms, Beethoven, and Rota. The concert will take place in the P.T Young Recital Hall at UVic January 17th at 2:30pm. Admission by donation.
We will also be performing the same programme January 22nd at the Silk Purse Arts Centre in West Vancouver. For more detail see the Silk Purse Arts Centre website.
DMA Recital #3 Concert Programme
Here is the programme and programme notes from my third DMA recital featuring works by Canadian composers from the Prairies, Ontario, and Quebec.
DMA Recital #3 – Music for clarinet from Central Canada
Rory Cowell and I will be performing December 10th, 8pm at Roy Barnett Hall, UBC. This programme will feature works for clarinet by composers from central Canada including Hétu, Gougeon, Fitzell, Morawetz, Daniel, and Mather.
Free Admission
Anerca II The Raven and the Children
Milton Barnes’ Anerca II is an outstanding Canadian work for clarinet, bassoon, and narrator. The Inuit legend The Raven and the Children is narrated, accompanied by Klezmer music and Inuit throat-singing inflections by the clarinet and bassoon. I included this work on my DMA lecture-recital and as a chapter in my DMA thesis “Canadian Clarinet Music As Multicultural Action”
Elizabeth Mee, and I performed this work May 4th 2015 at the UBC School of Music.
Canadian Clarinet Music Timeline
I have created a timeline including a number of significant events in the history of Canadian Clarinet music.
Events and actions are in Black and works are in Green. There are too many works to list in a single timeline, so I have included works that I think are worth noting after 1970. Also, there are a few works listed before 1970.
New Resources
I have added new resources to the Links/Resources page.
Check it out!
Trio Dolce at Kwantlen
The Trio Dolce featuring myself, Clare Yuan, and Laine Longton, will be playing at Kwantlen Music@Midday concert series on September 24th at noon.
We will be playing the Brahms and Rota Trios for clarinet, cello, and piano.
Hope to see you there.
Cascadia Reed Quintet
The Cascadia Reed Quintet will be performing at Douglas College Thursday September 4th at 1pm. We will be performing a concert featuring Debussy, Rameau, and Avro Part.
If you can’t make it Thursday, come to our concert on Bowen Island October 26th. More details to come.
R.M. Schafer Wizard Oil & Indian Sagwa
I discovered this performance piece while searching works by R Murray Schafer. Enjoy!
Romantics and Meditations
I will be performing with Laine Longton (cello) and Clare Yuan (piano) May 25th, 8pm at Tapestry at Westbrook Mall (3338 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver), and May 31st 730pm in Point Roberts, USA at the Trinity Community Lutheran Church. Our programme is titled Romantics and Meditations and will feature the Brahms Trio, and Rota Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano.
Hope to see you there!!
Lindy Gray’s new EP “Ripe For Revival”
I played a small part in Lindy Gray’s EP “Ripe for Revival”.
Take a listen or better yet buy her EP … it’s really good.
The clarinet is ME!
I have stepped outside of my box with this one, and it was fun.
Congratulations to Lindy and Elliot on your EP.
Contemplating Canadian Music
I will be doing a lecture recital at Douglas College Thursday, March 20th 2014. This lecture titled, Contemplating Canadian Music, will survey works from each region of Canada highlighting commonalities in sound and context. Additionally, the I will explore Canadian identity through the lens of the clarinet.
Click here to see the programme of works I will be performing.
Recital Programme and Notes
On February 11th 2014 I completed my second doctor of musical arts recital. I performed a programme of Canadian works; the first half of the programme was pieces by composers from the British Columbia region and the second half was works by composers from the Atlantic provinces.
Shawn Earle 