The clarinet has a very beautiful and versatile sound, which is perfect for romantic melodies or very sharp textures and can play in extremely loud or quite soft. One of the newer orchestral instruments – it was crucial to the sound of early jazz music and the Swing Era. Mozart wrote to Stadler: “Never would I have thought that a clarinet could be capable of imitating the human voice as deceptively as it is imitated by you. Truly your instrument has so soft and lovely a tone that nobody with a heart could resist it.”
CLARINET FACULTY
Rachel Bade-McMurphy, Clarinet & Saxophone
Cello | Clarinet | Flute | Guitar | Percussion | Piano | Piccolo
Saxophone | Trumpet | Trombone | Violin | Viola | Voice