HSU Guest Artist Series Concert
Please join the HSU Department of Music for a rare Monday night Guest Artist Series concert featuring clarinetist Blake McGee and pianist Chi-Chen Wu on April 10th at 8:00 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall. The duo will play a variety of repertoire for the two instruments, including sonatas, theme and variations, and elegies composed by such luminaries as Brahms, Milhaud, Francaix, Schickele, and Copland. Dr. Blake McGee is Associate Professor of Clarinet at the University of Wyoming. A native of the west coast, Dr. McGee performed as a member of the Portland Opera, Vancouver Symphony, and the Oregon Mozart Players chamber orchestra. He is currently principal clarinet of the Wyoming Symphony. He is a highly active chamber musician performing regularly with the Wyoming Reed Trio, the Casper Chamber Music Society, and as a member of Lights Along the Shore, a trio specializing in original arrangements of eclectic music from around the world. Additionally, he tours annually throughout the country as a recitalist. This summer, Dr. McGee will present a lecture on clarinet reed adjustment at the International Clarinet Society’s ClarinetFest in Orlando. In 2016, he published a book titled “ReedWorks” that covers a variety of topics on working with single reeds and continues to research the topic extensively. Dr. McGee earned degrees in Clarinet Performance from the University of Minnesota and the University of Oregon. Praised by World Journal, Chicago for her “amazing playing”, “symphonic, expansive texture of breathless virtuosity” (Historical Keyboard Society), and her Schumann performance, in which “the music comes to life in a new way” (Early Music America), pianist and native of Taiwan Chi-Chen Wu has appeared as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Taiwan, China, the Aspen Music Festival, Monadnock Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Concert Series among others. Her concerts have been broadcast on NPR’s Simply Grand Concert Series and NPR-From The Top in Boston. Musicians and conductors with whom she has concertized include Karl-Heinz Steffens, Jonathan McPhee, Zuill Bailey, members of the Julliard String Quartet, Takács String Quartet, musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and members of the Boston Symphony as well as New York Philharmonic orchestras. Please contact the music department office for up to date information on a proposed masterclass with the artists. Patrick@humboldt.edu or 707-826-3531.
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