Clarinet choir

The sound has been described by some music fans as resembling a concert organ. Popular across the globe, choirs of clarinets play both arrangements of well known pieces and increasingly music written specifically for this type of clarinet ensemble.

There is no set number of members to a choir of clarinets.

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A clarinet choir is an instrumental ensemble consisting entirely of instruments from the clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 family. Typically it will include E?

E-flat clarinet

The E-flat clarinet is a member of the clarinet family. It is usually classed as a soprano clarinet, although some authors describe it as a "sopranino" or even "piccolo" clarinet....
, B?

Soprano clarinet

The soprano clarinets are a sub-family of the clarinet family. They include the most common types of clarinets, and indeed are often referred to as simply "clarinets"....
, alto

Alto clarinet

The alto clarinet is a Woodwind Musical instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument pitched in the key of E, though instruments in F have been made....
, bass

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet....
, and contra-alto

Contra-alto clarinet

The contra-alto clarinet is a large, low-sounding musical instrument of the clarinet family. The modern contra-alto clarinet is pitched in the key of EEb and is sometimes called the EEb contrabass clarinet....
 or contrabass

Contrabass clarinet

The contrabass clarinet is the largest member of the clarinet family that has ever been in regular production or significant use. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instrument, sounding two octaves lower than the common B soprano clarinet and one octave lower than the B bass clarinet....
 clarinets, although some pieces are scored for a smaller set of instruments.

Natalia Forrest writes on her web site:

The sound has been described by some music fans as resembling a concert organ. Popular across the globe, choirs of clarinets play both arrangements of well known pieces and increasingly music written specifically for this type of clarinet ensemble.

There is no set number of members to a choir of clarinets. Some professional choirs, have as little as 10 members, others have up to 40.

Therefore in practice, in total size it may range from a chamber group of five to eight or so players to a band of forty or more. Such an ensemble of instruments with varied ranges but uniform timbre

Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments....
 may be thought of as a woodwind

Woodwind instrument

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator....
 equivalent to the string orchestra

String orchestra

A string orchestra is understood as an orchestra composed solely of instruments of the violin family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello and the double bass ....
.

In addition to these full-fledged choirs, there are clarinet trios and clarinet quartets, usually consisting either of three or four B? clarinets or two or three B? clarinets and one bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet....
.

History

Earlier clarinet ensembles

Composers such as Mozart, Stadler

Anton Stadler

Anton Stadler was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto ....
, Družecký, and Bouffil

Jacques-Jules Bouffil

Jacques Jules Boufil . . French.He was a pupil of Xavier Lef?vre at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining a First Prize in 1806, which until 1817 carried with it the award of a pair of French-made clarinets in B flat and C....
 anticipated the clarinet choir in their works for three basset horns or clarinets.

James Waterson (1834-1893), a bandmaster to the Viceroy of India with a close association to Henry Lazarus

Henry Lazarus

Henry Lazarus was the leading United Kingdom clarinet virtuoso of the 19th century. George Bernard Shaw wrote of Henry Lazarus:"He was the best clarionet [sic] player in England; when you were sitting behind Costa at the Opera you listened for certain phrases from the clarionet just as you did from the prima donna, except that you were...
 and "The Military School of Music at Kneller Hall

Kneller Hall

Kneller Hall is a stately home in the Twickenham area of west London, and takes its name from Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter to British monarchs from Charles II of England to George I of the United Kingdom....
", wrote the earliest clarinet quartets —technically quite difficult works in a popular style— for four B? clarinets.

The first clarinet choirs

Whereas the B? clarinet and basset horn (an alto clarinet in F) were readily available from the late 18^th century, higher and lower voices were still missing for completion of the choir.

The E? clarinet established a niche for itself in the military band, particularly in Germany, from about 1805, whereas the bass clarinet would be perfected by Adolphe Sax

Adolphe Sax

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgium musical instrument designer and musician , best known for inventing the saxophone....
 in 1838. Therefore, the defining moment with regard to the foundation of the full clarinet choir was the advent of Fontaine-Besson's successful clarinette-pedale

Contrabass clarinet

The contrabass clarinet is the largest member of the clarinet family that has ever been in regular production or significant use. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instrument, sounding two octaves lower than the common B soprano clarinet and one octave lower than the B bass clarinet....
 design, exhibited in Paris in 1889 and patented in 1891.

Gustave Poncelet

Gustave Poncelet

Gustave Poncelet was a Belgian clarinetist-saxophonist. He is credited with creating the first clarinet choir at the Brussels Conservatory in the late nineteenth century while he was teaching there....
 (1844-1903) a Belgian clarinetist-saxophonist is credited with creating the first clarinet choir (this ensemble consisted of up to about twenty-seven players) at the Brussels Conservatory in the late nineteenth century while he was teaching there.

It was from hearing Poncelet's ensemble in 1896 that the German composer Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
 became acquainted and enamored with all of the members of the clarinet family. As a result, Strauss used large and diverse clarinet sections in many of his large scale orchestral works and operas.

An early clarinet choir in the United States was established in 1927 by Simeon Bellison

Simeon Bellison

Simeon Bellison , born in Moscow, he was naturalised American after settling in the US in 1921.An early clarinet choir in the United States was established in 1927 by Simeon Bellison, then first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic; from an initial eight members, the group's size grew by 1948 to 75 members....
, then first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall....
; from an initial eight members, the group's size grew by 1948 to 75 members.

Rising popularity in the US in the 1950's

In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of prominent clarinet performers and educators including James DeJesu, Harold Palmer, Lucien Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet was an American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist.Born in France, Cailliet studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon before migrating to the United States in 1918....
, David Hite

David Hite

David L. Hite was an American clarinetist, teacher, and designer of clarinet mouthpieces.He studied clarinet with Fred Weaver, Daniel Bonade and Anthony Gigliotti....
, Donald McCathren, Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed was one of America's most prolific and frequently performed composers, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, choir, and chamber ensemble to his name....
, Russell Howland

Russell Howland

Russell Howland was one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US. He studied at the University of Illinois. He was a professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948....
, and Harvey Hermann started a movement that began the golden age of the clarinet choir.

Further stimulation came by music educators who were trying to improve their ever-expanding clarinet sections. Many new compositions and arrangements for the clarinet choir where inspired by this renewed momentum and activity. Most major US university and high school music programs boasted large clarinet choirs. Notable examples were the choirs at the University of Illinois, Iowa State University

Iowa State University

The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant university and Space grant colleges university located in Ames, Iowa, United States....
, Fresno State College, Montana State University, Duquesne University

Duquesne University

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Roman Catholic Church university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Holy Ghost Fathers, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of si...
, and Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon Valley College is a small, liberal arts higher education institution situated in the heart of Annville, Pennsylvania in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 40 minutes east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
. Colleges with notable choirs today include the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is a Public university land-grant university, sea grant colleges, Space grant colleges major research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States....
.

Strong support for the clarinet choir movement was given by all of the leading instrument manufacturers of the time. Clarinet choirs were often featured at US state, regional, and national music conferences, which often included the formation of conference mass choirs.

Repertoire

The repertoire of music originally composed for clarinet choir was almost nonexistent before the mid twentieth century, but since then transcriptions have been made of many earlier works originally scored for different instrumental groups. Simeon Bellison

Simeon Bellison

Simeon Bellison , born in Moscow, he was naturalised American after settling in the US in 1921.An early clarinet choir in the United States was established in 1927 by Simeon Bellison, then first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic; from an initial eight members, the group's size grew by 1948 to 75 members....
 for one is credited with arranging a vast number of works for clarinet choir in the first half of the twentieth century. Another famous arranger for clarinet choir was Percy Grainger

Percy Grainger

George Percy Grainger was an Australian-born composer, pianist and champion of the saxophone and the concert band, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger....
, who spent some weeks during many summers teaching, conducting and performing at the Interlochen Music Camp, near Traverse City, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. In the course of his connection with Interlochen he made several arrangements for homogeneous wind groups, most commonly saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
s or clarinets, of works by J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Josquin des Pres, Jenkins

Jenkins

Jenkins may refer to:People with the surname Jenkins:*Jenkins *The Jenkins, country music groupIn places in the US:*Jenkins, Kentucky...
, Lawes

Lawes

Lawes is the surname of the following people:*Arthur Lawes, 20th century rugby league footballer* Henry Lawes, an English musician and composer....
, Le Jeune

Claude Le Jeune

Claude Le Jeune was a France composer of the late Renaissance music. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesur?e, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century....
, and Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti , son of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was an Italy composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal....
, between 1937 and 1946.

Ensembles such as Harvey Hermann's clarinet choir at the University of Illinois generated substantial numbers of arrangements. The center for American Music has a number of recordings of Mr. Hermann with his UIUC clarinet choir in its collection.

Ensembles and discography

Clarinet trios and quartets

Trio di Clarone

A clarinet ensemble formed by Sabine Meyer

Sabine Meyer

Sabine Meyer is a Germany European classical music clarinetist.Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist....
, Wolfgang Meyer (her brother), and Rainer Wehle (her husband).

Smaller clarinet ensembles (5-8 members)

Vienna Clarinet Connection (5 clarinetists)

Helmut Hödl principal clarinetist of the Vienna Volksoper

Vienna Volksoper

The Vienna Volksoper is a major opera house in Vienna, Austria. It gives about three hundred performances of twenty-five productions each season which runs from September to June....
, Ferdinand Steiner, Hubert Salmhofer, Wolfgang Kornberger and Peter Forcher are the members of this ensemble.

• Sony Pepperland V.C.C. 001 (p) 1995
• Dizzy Gillespie
  Dizzy Gillespie
  
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
  ; arr. Helmut Hödl and Richard Hepner; A night in Tunesia
• Helmut Hödl; A Little funky song for Sheba
• Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   arr. Helmut Hödl; Autumn Leaves
• Michael Rot; In Between
• Antonio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Jobim
  
  Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
   arr. Helmut Hödl; The Drunken Girl from Ipanema
• Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
   arr. Richard Hepner; In a Sentimental Mood
• Franz Cibulka
  Franz Cibulka
  
  Franz Cibulka, born in 1946, is an Austrian composer.Franz Peter Cibulka is a freelance composer from Graz, Austria. His list of works includes more than 300 compositions of the most diverse instrumentation and styles resulting from his artistic collaboration with various performers....
  ; Musik für KLarinettenquartett
• Alfred Uhl
  Alfred Uhl
  
  Alfred Uhl was an Austrian composer. He studied with Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Music Academy, receiving a diploma in composition with honours in 1932....
  ; Divertimento für drei Klarinetten & Bassklarinette

The Berner Clarinet Ensemble (6 or 8 clarinetists)

This ensemble was initiated by Sylvia Schwarzenbach in 1980. The members are young clarinetists aged between 13 and 19 recruited from Sylvia's clarinet class at the Berne

Berne

The city of Berne or Bern is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland and, with 128,041 people , the fifth most populous city in Switzerland ....
 Conservatory. As a result the ensemble's composition is changing over time. They either form sextets or octets.

• Leo Records LEO LAB CD006 © 1994, (p) 1994
• Giancarlo Nicolai; Capa I Greco E Elle;
• Giancarlo Nicolai; Ds Klarinetteheft;

interclarinet (5 clarinetists)

This ensemble consists of five clarinetists and was founded in the summer of 1998 at the congress of the International Clarinet Association

International Clarinet Association

The International Clarinet Association is the main international organization bringing together players of the clarinet. It is based in Lyons, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
 in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the Capital , the largest, and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located near the Geographic centers of the United States, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware County, Ohio and Fairfield County, Ohio counties....
 as an initiative by the Frank Hammerschmidt

Frank Hammerschmidt

Frank Hammerschmidt is a clarinet manufacturer located in Burgau, Germany. Frank Hammerschmidt is from the Hammerschmidt family which has been producing clarinets for generations....
 clarinet company of Burgau

Burgau

Burgau is a town in G?nzburg in Swabia, Bavaria. Burgau lies on the river Mindel, and has a population of about 10,000....
.

Members are: Norbert Täube, Manfred Preis, Jòszef Balogh, Johannes Gleichweit, Harald Harrer.

• Farao Classics B 108 011 © 2000, (p) 2000
• Georg Friedrich Handel;
• Arrival of the Queen of Sheba;
• "Lascia ch'io panga" from Rinaldo;
• Carl Boehm; Quintet in F-major;
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
  ; Adagio in F-major, KV 580a;
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  
  Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
  ; Hungarian Dance no.5;
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  ; Air from the Suite no.3 in D-major;
• György Orbán; Quintetto - Tempo di Tango;
• Isaac Albeniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Alb?niz i Pascual was a Spain Catalonia pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.=Life=...
  ; Tango
  Tango music
  
  Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta t?pica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons....
  ;
• Daniel Dorff
  Daniel Dorff
  
  Daniel Dorff is an American composer. He graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick....
  ; It takes four to Tango;
• William Byrd
  William Byrd
  
  William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance music. He cultivated many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, Keyboard instrument and consort music...
  ; Pavane
  Pavane
  
  The pavane, pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century ....
  ;
• Kennet A. Wilson; Variationen über ein Thema von Paganini;
• George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
  
  George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  ; Oh, Lady be Good;
• Jòszef Balogh; Episodes of the Crescent Moon;

Kalmen Opperman Clarinet Choir (7 clarinetists)

Directed by Kalmen Opperman

Kalmen Opperman

Kalmen Opperman is an American clarinetist. He is a noted performer, teacher, conductor, mouthpiece and barrel maker , composer, and writer of numerous clarinet studies....

• RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-68817-2 © (p) 1997 (With Richard Stoltzman
  Richard Stoltzman
  
  Richard Stoltzman is an United States clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960....
  )
• Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  
  Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
  ; arr. Jonathan Tunick
  Jonathan Tunick
  
  Jonathan Tunick is an orchestrator, musical director and composer, one of very few persons to have List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards....
  ; Suite from Carmen for Clarinet Solo and Clarinet Choir
• Seguidilla
• La fleur que tu m'avais...
• Chanson Bohème

Lucioles/Ensemble de Clarinettes (6 clarinetists)

A Japanese sextet consisting of Yuji Murai, Seiji Yokokawa, Shuhei Isobe, Shuichi Morikawa, Kiyoshi Arai, Nobuo Fukushima

• Eugène Bozza
  Eugène Bozza
  
  Eug?ne Joseph Bozza was a France composer.Bozza, who studied composition, conducting, and violin at the Paris Conservatoire, was known primarily for his chamber music....
  ; Lucioles; King Record Company KICC 70 © 1992, (p) 1981

Wendell Harrison: "The Clarinet Ensemble" (7 clarinetists)

"Wendell Harrison and his Clarinet Ensemble are making significant musical history with every recording and performance, exploring both the outer and inner frontiers of the music and always reaffirming the expressive possibilities of one of jazz music's premier instruments."

This ensemble consists of seven clarinetists —playing the full range of clarinets— reinforced by percussion, piano and bass.

• WenHa WCD230 © 1994 (p) 1994
• Wendell Harrison
  Wendell Harrison
  
  Wendell Harrison is an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist born in Detroit, Michigan.Harrison began playing clarinet at age seven, and switched to tenor sax in high school....
  ;
• Rush & Hustle;
• My SHining Hour
  My Shining Hour
  
  "My Shining Hour" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the 1943 film The Sky's the Limit, where it was introduced by Sally Sweetland - who dubbed for Joan Leslie - backed by Freddie Slack and his orchestra....
  ;
• The Hooptie;
• Pamela's Holiday;
• Gonna take you out;
• Urban Lullaby;
• Saga f a Carrot;

Larger Clarinet Ensembles

British Clarinet Ensemble (20-25 clarinetists)

The conducted by Charles Hine, was formed in 1995 under the auspices of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain. Its members are drawn from all four corners of Britain and include professional and amateur players, teachers and students. Since its inception the BCE has championed British composers, regularly commissioning new works and enhancing the repertoire. In the UK performances have been given at many BASBWE Conferences and British Clarinet Congresses as well as appearing on BBC Radio 2. The ensemble has toured Finland, Hungary, Poland, Belgium and Holland and has recorded a CD of new British works for clarinet choir "Gordian Knots". The BCE has been honoured to appear in the International Clarinet Association festivals in New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo.

• Gordian Knots BCE-0099 © 1999
• Eric Hughes; Celebration Overture;
• Guy Woolfenden
  Guy Woolfenden
  
  Guy Anthony Woolfenden Order of the British Empire is an England composer and Conductor ....
  ; Gordian Knots;
• Michael Ball; Concertino;
• Paul Hart; Eric's Czardas;
• Alan Bullard; Cyclic harmony;
• Gordon Lewin; The Grand Old Duke of York;

• Looping the Loop BCE 102 © 2006
• Adam Gorb; Burlesque;
• Nigel Wood; Where Spirits and Demons Dance;
• Anthony Bailey; Mahleriana;
• Giuseppe Tartini
  Giuseppe Tartini
  
  Giuseppe Tartini was an Italy composer and violinist....
   arr. Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Jacob
  
  Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings....
  ; Concertino;
• Guy Woolfenden
  Guy Woolfenden
  
  Guy Anthony Woolfenden Order of the British Empire is an England composer and Conductor ....
  ; Three dances;
• Alan Bullard; Circular Melody;
• Anthony Bailey; Towards the Wind;
• Martin Ellerby
  Martin Ellerby
  
  Martin Ellerby is an England composer. He was educated at the Royal College of Music, London, where he was taught by Joseph Horovitz.His catalogue features works for orchestra, chorus, concert band, brass band, ballet and various instrumental ensembles....
  ; Looping the Loop - A Chicago Hop;
• Andy Scott; Fujiko;
• Andy Scott; Paquito;

Brussels Clarinet Choir (20 clarinetists)

Hedwig Swimberghe

Hedwig Swimberghe

Hedwig Swimberghe is a Belgian clarinetist, leading the Clarinet choir, and teaching at the Brussels Conservatory ...
 leads the Brussels Clarinet choir. He teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels

Brussels Conservatory

Brussels Conservatory may refer to the:* Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, operating in french, in existence since the 19th century* Koninklijk Conservatorium , operating in dutch, split in 1967 from the original institution...
, so this group of 20 clarinetists is formed by his current and former pupils.

• World Wind Music Beriato WWM 500.106 © 2003, (p) 2003
• Tomaso Albinoni
  Tomaso Albinoni
  
  Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was a Venetian Baroque music composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded....
  , arr. J. Thilde; Sonata in g-minor, for Clarinet Choir;
• N. Marchenkova; Sommer Farbenspiel über dem Bodensee (2003), for Clarinet Choir;
• Gioachino Rossini, arr. J. Schelkens; Introduction, Theme and Variations for Solo Clarinet and Clarinet Choir;
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
  , arr. Hedwig Swimberghe
  Hedwig Swimberghe
  
  Hedwig Swimberghe is a Belgian clarinetist, leading the Clarinet choir, and teaching at the Brussels Conservatory ...
  ; Andante Cantabile from String Quartet nr.1;
• J. Tassyns; Vocalise
  Vocalise
  
  A vocalise is a vocal exercise without words, which is sung on one or more vowel sounds. The singing of vocalise is called vocalization.Vocalise dates back to the mid-18th century....
   for Voice and Clarinet Choir;
• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
  , arr. David Hite; Pavane pour une enfante défunte;
• G. De Kerpel; Clarichor (2002) for Clarinet Choir;
• R. Boutry; Air Abulenses (2003);
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
   arr. K. E. Webb; Tarantella op.102 nr.3;

Clarinet Orchestra of Almada (36 clarinetists)

At an average age of 21, this ensemble of 36 clarinetists is made up of young musicians coming from several music schools Almada

Almada

Almada - Arabic: ??? ?????? is a city and a municipalities of Portugal in Portugal with a total area of 70.0 km? and a total population of 164,844 inhabitants....
, Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
 and Seixal

Seixal

Seixal is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 96.0 km? and a total population of 161,327 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of 6 parishes, and is located in the district of Set?bal ....
 Portugal. Rehearsals are weekly at the School of Education Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget was a Switzerland philosophy and natural science,well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called "genetic epistemology."...
 of Almada. The ensemble had its first public appearance in April 1998. Since then it has performed also outside Portugal and made a tour to France.

Clarinet choir of Fribourg - CH (15-20 clarinetists)

Founded in 1998 by Jean-Daniel Lugrin the is formed with the whole family of clarinets, from small clarinet in Eb to Contra Bass Clarinet in Eb. The repertoire is varied, from classic to jazz pieces.

Clarinets Unlimited (18 clarinetists)

The clarinet orchestra Clarinets Unlimited is located in Gröningen

Gröningen

Gr?ningen is a town in the B?rde Districts of Germany in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies approx. 40 km south-west of Magdeburg, and 10 km east of Halberstadt....
 and was founded in 1991.

They have cooperated with clarinet-quartet Arghûl

Arghul

The arghul , also spelled argul, arghoul, arghool, argol, or yarghul , is a traditional Arabic Instrument ....
, and other clarinet choirs like Calamus from Almelo

Almelo

Media:Nl-Almelo.ogg is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie and Bornerbroek....
 and the Clarinet Choir from Haarlem

Haarlem

, in the past usually 'Harlem' in English, is a city in the Netherlands. It is also the Capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was one of the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic....
.

In October 2003 they played in Izegem

Izegem

Izegem is a municipality located in the Belgium province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Izegem proper and the towns of Emelgem and Kachtem....
 België in an exchange with International Clarinets, under the direction of Eddy Vanoosthuyse. In March 2004 the Manresa Clarinet Choir Spain visited them.

CD Suite (2005):

• William Byrd
  William Byrd
  
  William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance music. He cultivated many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, Keyboard instrument and consort music...
  ; arr. Philip Gordon; English Dance Suite
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  ; arr. Coen Wolfgram; Orkestsuite nr. 2 (BWV 1067)
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
  ; arr. Russel Howland; Petite Suite
• Warner Hutchison; Suite for Clarinet Choir
• Terje Bjørn Lerstad; Suite op.103
• arr. Coen Wolfgram; Klezmer Suite

CD (2001)

1. Concerto in Es-groot, deel I, Antonio Vivaldi (arr. Kermit Peters) 2. L'Italiana in Algieri, Gioacchino Rossini (arr. Harold Palmer) 3. Chaconne, Georg Friedrich Händel (arr. Elliot Del Borgo) 4. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Georg Friedrich Händel (arr. Terry Kenny) 5. Lilita Mia (Tango), A. Oldyard (arr. Reinier van der Wal) 6. Chalumeaux Suite, deel I, Jukka Linkola 7. Chalumeaux Suite, deel II, Jukka Linkola 8. Chalumeaux Suite, deel III, Jukka Linkola 9. A Mario, Atso Almila 10. Episodes from the Crescent Moon, József Balogh

Clarinote of Caen (13 clarinetists)

Composed of 13 members, is associated with the conservatory of Caen

Caen

Caen is a commune in France in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados Departments of France and the capital of the Basse-Normandie r?gion in France....
 France. In 2001 commissioned an opera for kids "Le chant de la cité prospère" from Jean-Michel Trotoux.

• Henry Purcell
  Henry Purcell
  
  Henry Purcell...
   arr. Evelyne Letang; Evocations from "Dido and Aeneas";
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
   arr. Désirée Dondeyne; Variations Sérieuses op.54;
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
   arr. Russell Howland
  Russell Howland
  
  Russell Howland was one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US. He studied at the University of Illinois. He was a professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948....
  ; Petite Suite;
• Sergei Prokofoev arr. members of Clarinote; 4 Visions Fugitives;
• Norman Heim; Preludium and Canzona;
• Michel Aumont; Voyage du grand conseil
• Astor Piazzola;
• Adios Nonino
  Adiós Nonino
  
  Adi?s Nonino is a composition by Tango music composer ?stor Piazzolla, written in October 1959 while in New York in memory of his father, Vincente "Nonino" Piazzolla, a few days after his father's death....
  ;
• Oblivion
  Oblivion
  
  The word oblivion means the state of complete awareness, consciousness, or forgetting; or the state of being completely forgotten .Oblivion may also refer to:...
  ;
• Turkish Traditional; Lounga Charnaz;
• Bretonic Traditional; Ton Iwan;

East London Clarinet Choir (13 clarinetists)

The East London Clarinet Choir is a professional clarinet choir led by Musical Director Shea Lolin. They gave their debut performance in their resident space of St. John's church, Stratford Broadway (London, UK) in October 2006.

Performances have usually included works by British contemporary composers such as:

• • MICHAEL BALL Concertino
  • ALAN BULLARD Cyclic Harmony
  • MARTIN ELLERBY Looping the Loop (Chicago Hop)
  • PAUL HARVEY Dances of Atlantis
  • PAUL HARVEY Concertino for Soprano Saxophone and clarinet choir
  • ERIC HUGHES Celebration Overture
  • GORDON LEWIN Calle de Flores
  • PATRICK MILES Behold
  • NINA MORRIS Mythical Creatures
  • TARTINI/JACOB Concertino
  • JAMES RAE Three Southern Sketches
  • GUY WOOLFENDEN Gordian Knots
  • GUY WOOLFENDEN Three Dances

Ensemble de Clarinettistes Belges (10 clarinetists)

Founded and conducted by Pol Duvieusart in 1976. All members of this ensemble were professional musicians. The ensemble ceased to exist on December 8, 2005.

• Pavane Records ADW 7050 © 1981, (p) 1981
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
  ; La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
  La fille aux cheveux de lin
  
  La fille aux cheveux de lin is a musical composition by France composer Claude Debussy. The title is in French language and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair"....
  ;
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
  ; Arabesque
  Arabesque
  
  The arabesque is an elaborative application of repeating geometry forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals. Arabesques are an element of Islamic art usually found decorating the walls of mosques....
  ;
• Jacques Stehman; Suite
  Suite
  
  In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
  ;
• Jacques Ibert
  Jacques Ibert
  
  Jacques Fran?ois Antoine Ibert was a French composer of european classical music....
  ; Histoires;
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
  ; The Flight of the Bumblebee;
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  ; Toccata and Fugue in D minor
  Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  
  The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ repertoire composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1703 and 1707....
  ;

Ensemble de Clarinettes Salmorenc de Voiron (25 clarinetists)

• CHIC ECSV0196 © 1996, (p) 1996
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , but a part of Kingdom of Hungary when he was born....
  ; Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat major;
• Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  
  Georges Bizet was a France composer and pianist of the Romantic music era. He is best known for the opera Carmen....
  ; Arrangement on Themes of Suites 1 and 2 of l'Arlésienne;
• Alessandro Marcello
  Alessandro Marcello
  
  Alessandro Marcello was an Italian people nobleman and dilettante who excelled in various areas, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics and, perhaps most notably, music....
  ; Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in C-minor;
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  Georg Philipp Telemann
  
  Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig....
  ; Sonata for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat major;

Finnish Clarinet Ensemble (20-40 clarinetists)

The Finnish Clarinet Ensemble was founded in 1983. Since then the ensemble has performed regularly at different venues and at least once a year at its annual meeting which is held in various Finnish cities. The ensemble has performed in Sweden, Belgium (ICA conference in Ghent) and Great Britain. The Finnish Clarinet Ensemble has published two CDs containing also contemporary Finnish clarinet choir works. The number of players varies from twenty to forty.

• Finlandia FACD 931 © 1990, (p) 1990
• Jukka Linkola
  Jukka Linkola
  
  Jukka Linkola is a Finnish jazz pianist and classical composer. He has composed music for the Finnish National Opera and led several jazz Big Bands In addition he has won two Jussi awards for music....
  ; Chalumeau Suite;
• Kazuhiro Morita; Aubade
  Aubade
  
  An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.Aubade has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak."...
  ;
• Atso Almila
  Atso Almila
  
  Atso Almila is a Finnish people orchestral conductor, musical director, composer, trombonist and teacher.He has worked with most orchestras of Finland as a guest conductor or otherwise....
  ; A Mario;
• Lasse Eerola; Scenes from Northern Carelia;
• Osmo Vänskä
  Osmo Vänskä
  
  Osmo V?nsk? is a Finnish orchestra conducting. He started his musical career as an orchestral clarinettist with the Turku Philharmonic . He then became the principal clarinet of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1977 to 1982....
  ; Image
  Image
  
  An image is an artifact, usually two-dimensional , that has a similar appearance to some subject —usually a physical object or a person....
  ;
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time....
   arr. John Krance; Aria from Bachanias Brasileiras no.5;
• Pietro Mascagni
  Pietro Mascagni
  
  Pietro Mascagni was an Italy composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music....
   arr. Kazuhiro Morita; Intermezzo from the opera "Cavalleria rusticana
  Cavalleria rusticana
  
  Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story....
  ";
• Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
   arr. Kazuhiro Morita; Scaramouche Suite;
• Kazuhiro Morita; Clarinet Polka;

Mpingo Clarinet Choir (55 clarinettists)

Is the clarinetchoir from the Muzerie Center of Arts, Zwolle

Zwolle

Media:Nl-Zwolle.ogg is a municipality and the capital city of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands, 120 kilometers northeast of Amsterdam. Zwolle has about 115,000 citizens....
, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1994 by clarinet teacher Martin van Zanten who is also conducting the choir. The age of the players is between 13 and 65 years old..

Netherlands Clarinet Choir (21 clarinetists)

• World Wind Music Beriato 500.039 © 1998, (p) 1998
• Jos Pommer; Octagon;
• Peter Kleine Schaars; It's so nice to meet you too;
• Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
   arr. Peter Kleine Schaars; You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  
  "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular music song written by Cole Porter, for the 1943 film Something to Shout About , where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche....
  ;
• Peter Kleine Schaars; St Louis Fantasy;
• Errol Garner arr. Peter Kleine Schaars; Misty
  Misty
  
  Misty may refer to:* Misty of Chincoteague, a book by Marguerite Henry** Misty , an adaptation of the book* Misty * Misty , by Erroll Garner...
  ;
• Peter Kleine Schaars; Salsa Suspension;
• Paul Dzon; Romanian Folkdances;
• Jos Pommer; Ballad;
• Peter Kleine Schaars; Tekebreek;
• Sammy Nestico
  Sammy Nestico
  
  Samuel "Sammy" Lewis Nestico is a prolific and well known composer and arranger of big band music. Nestico is most known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra....
  ; A study in Contrasts;
• Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
   arr. Peter Kleine Schaars; It Might as Well Be Spring
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  
  "It Might as Well Be Spring" is a song from the 1945 in music film State Fair . With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year....
  ;
• Peter Kleine Schaars; Cargo Funk;

Northwest Clarinet Choir (12 clarinetists)

Seattle, USA group, founded in 1990 and conducted by William Blayney. Performs standard clarinet choir repertoire as well as transcriptions and arrangements by group members. Premiered new works by John David Lamb and David P. Jones.

Piet Jeegers Clarinet Choir (28 clarinetists)

This ensemble is lead by Piet Jeegers

Piet Jeegers

Piet Jeegers is a Dutch people clarinetist, teaching at the Brussels Conservatory.He is active as a conductor of wind bands and is the founder and leader of the Piet Jeegers clarinet choir....
 a clarinetist teacher of the Tilburg Conservatory also noted for developing a series of mouthpieces based on the notion that people with more or less under- or overbite need different facings on their mouthpieces.

• Piet Jeegers 881201 © 1988, (p) 1988
• Antonio Vivaldi
  Antonio Vivaldi
  
  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
   arr. Jacques Lancelot
  Jacques Lancelot
  
  Jacques Lancelot was a French classical clarinetist....
  ; Concerto Grosso op.3 no.11;
• Arthur Frackenpohl
  Arthur Frackenpohl
  
  Arthur Frackenpohl is an United States composer and Professor Emeritus at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam....
  ; Prelude and Allegro;
• Philip Gorden; Capriccio
  Capriccio (music)
  
  A capriccio or caprice , is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuoso in nature....
  ;
• Robert R. Roden; Two Water Colors;
• Warner Hutchison; Suite for Clarinet Choir;
• Elliot Delborgo; Dodecaphonic Essay;
• David Uber; Parade
  Parade
  
  A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float or sometimes large balloons....
  ;
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
   arr. Russell Howland
  Russell Howland
  
  Russell Howland was one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US. He studied at the University of Illinois. He was a professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948....
  ; Petite Suite;
• Sammy Nestico
  Sammy Nestico
  
  Samuel "Sammy" Lewis Nestico is a prolific and well known composer and arranger of big band music. Nestico is most known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra....
  ; Study in Contrasts];
• Harry Stalpers; Clownery for Clarinets;
• Vaclav Nelhybel
  Václav Nelhýbel
  
  V?clav Nelh?bel was a Czechs-United States composer, mainly of works for student performers. He is considered one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
  ; Chorale and Danza;

• Piet Jeegers 910501 © 1991, (p) 1991
• Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
   arr. Lucien Caillet; Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
  The Marriage of Figaro
  
  Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K?chel-Verzeichnis, is an opera buffa composed in 1786_in_music#Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro ....
  ;
• Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
   arr. Lucien Calliet; Adagio for Strings
  Adagio for Strings
  
  "Adagio for Strings" is a work for string orchestra, arranged by the United States composer Samuel Barber from his first string quartet....
  ;
• Gioacchino Rossini
  Gioacchino Rossini
  
  Gioachino Antonio Rossini was a popular Italian composer who created 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell ....
   arr. Harold G. Palmer; L'Italiana in Algeri
  L'italiana in Algeri
  
  'L'italiana in Algeri' is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca....
  ;
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
   arr. Sharon Davis
  Sharon Davis
  
  Sharon Ryer Davis is the wife of former California Governor Gray Davis. She is a former Miss Santee and the former First Lady of California....
  ; Sarabande
  Sarabande
  
  In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of crotchets and minims in alternation....
  ;
• Jack Snavely; Motif and Variations;
• Norman Heim; Elegy
  Elegy
  
  An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive Poetry#Elegy, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead....
  ;
• Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Jacob
  
  Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings....
  ; Introduction and Rondo;
• Norman Heim; Preludium and Canzona;
• George Frederic Handel arr. Don Wilcox; Overture to "Julius Caesar";
• Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  
  B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Roumenian Folkdances;

• Piet Jeegers 960108 © 1996, (p) 1996
• Harry Stalpers; Sinfonia Concertante "con reminiscenza";
• Marcel De Jonghe; Mini Caprices;
• Jan Van Der Roost
  Jan Van der Roost
  
  Jan Van der Roost is a Belgium composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Rikudim: "Four Israeli Folkdances";
• Edvard Grieg
  Edvard Grieg
  
  Edvard Grieg was a Norway composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto , for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces....
   arr. L. Jan Coeck; Peer Gynt Suite;
• Rosemary Lang; Grenadilla Rhapsody;
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Paul Hoogenboom; Fantasia e Fuga;

Skjold Clarinet Choir (25 clarinetists)

The Skjold Clarinet Choir is located in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway, with a population of 252 051 as of January 1st, 2009. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county....
, Norway and was founded in December 1991. The choir's 25 members range in age from sixteen to fifty years, and are a mix of amateurs and music students from Bergen. Many of them pupils of clarinetist Espen Opedal, who has been teaching clarinet at Skjold since 1982.

They appeared on the CD De Unges Kammerkonsert 2002

• Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
  ; Allegro from Serenade KV388
• Sjur Hjeltnes; Krystallfiber II (2002)
• Øyvind Moe; Odds and Ends (2002)
• Reidar Gullesen Koral

The Slovenian Clarinet Choir (38 members)

Founded by the clarinetists Joze Kotar and Toni Umek, both from Trbovlje

Trbovlje

Trbovlje is a town and municipality in central Slovenia. Located in the eponymous valley of Trbovlje by the river Sava , the area is known for its rich deposits of coal and one of its three power plants features Trbovlje Chimney - reputedly the Europe's tallest chimney ....
, this ensemble is notable because it is the first clarinet choir ever in Slovenia.

Its membership is formed by soloists and orchestra players in the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

The Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra is the national philharmonic orchestra of Slovenia, based in the capital Ljubljana.On the building it states that it was founded in 1701; this actually refers to the founding of the Academiae Philharmonicorum which saw the formation of the Philharmonic Society then in 1794 but it wasn't until 1908...
, the RTV Symphonic Orchestra, the orchestras of the Ljubljana and Maribor Opera, the Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian Police Band, the Slovenian Armed Forces Band as well as several quality amateur and school orchestras and bands.

The ensemble is conducted by Slovenian conductor Marko Letonja, who is also the principal conductor and artistic director of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

The Thameside Clarinet Choir (appr. 20 clarinetists)

The Thameside Clarinet Choir is a group of about twenty clarinetists meeting every week during the school year. They are based near Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south-west London.It was the ancient market town where Anglo-Saxons kings were crowned and is now a suburb situated south west of Charing Cross....
 (South West London, UK). The idea to found the choir sprang up at a course in Clarinet Playing taught by Christopher Hooker in 1972, and it was subsequently founded in September 1973.

Tokyo Clarinet Choir (over 50 clarinetists)

The Tokyo Clarinet Choir is an amateur clarinet ensemble. It was founded in 1986 by Ikuo Inagaki, a professional clarinetist who is also currently directing the ensemble. The original choir began with 15 members. Currently, the TCC has over fifty members.

• Brain Music OSBR-16037
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Toccata and Fugue D minor
  Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  
  The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ repertoire composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1703 and 1707....
  ;
• Mikhail Glinka
  Mikhail Glinka
  
  Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian people composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; "Ruslan and Ludmila"overture;
• Charles Gounod
  Charles Gounod
  
  Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Ballet Music from "Faust";

• Tokyo Clarinet Choir TCCD-01
• Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  
  Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; An Der Schonen blauen Donau;
• Carl Maria von Weber
  Carl Maria von Weber
  
  Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Aufforderung zum Tanz;
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Praludium et Fuga;

• Goodlife CACG-0026 © 2002, (p) 2002
• Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  
  Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini";
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  
  Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Danse Macabre op.40;
• Atsuhiro Isozaki; TCC presents no.9 for Contra-alto Clarinet Solo and Clarinet Choir;
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Präludium und Fugue in D-major BWV532;
• Johann Strauss sohn arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Persischer marsch op.289;
• Johann Strauss sohn arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Telegramme op.318;
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  
  Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn op.56;
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  
  Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
   arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen from "11 Chorale Preludes";
• Johann Strauss vater arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Radetzky marsch op. 228;
• Polish folk song arr. Atsuhiro Isozaki; Clarinet Polka;

Walter Boeykens Clarinet Choir (30-50 clarinetists)

• Vanguard Classics 99042 © 1995, (p) 1994
• Witold Lutoslawski
  Witold Lutoslawski
  
  Witold Lutoslawski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Poland musicians during his last three decades....
  , arr. Robert Groslot; Dance Preludes
  Dance Preludes
  
  Dance Preludes was a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani on New York City Ballet to Witold Lutoslawski's 1955 music as a List of French phrases#P for the Dancers' Emergency Fund Benefit, February 24, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts....
   for Clarinet Solo and Clarinet Choir;
• Robert Groslot; I Giardini della Villa d'Este for Voice and Clarinet Choir;

• René Gailly International Productions CD87 003 © 1987, (p) 1986
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Toccata and Fugue in D minor
  Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  
  The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ repertoire composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1703 and 1707....
  ;
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Rosamunde Incidential Music, D797;
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  
  Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
   arr. Russell Howland
  Russell Howland
  
  Russell Howland was one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US. He studied at the University of Illinois. He was a professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948....
  ; Petite Suite;
• Witold Lutoslawski
  Witold Lutoslawski
  
  Witold Lutoslawski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Poland musicians during his last three decades....
  , arr. Robert Groslot; Dance Preludes for Clarinet Solo and Clarinet Choir;
• Norman Heim; Introduction and Concertante for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet Choir op.58;
• Jan L. Coeck; Clarifonia;

• Kosei Publishing Company KOCD-2502 © 1993 (p) 1993
• Gioacchino Rossini
  Gioacchino Rossini
  
  Gioachino Antonio Rossini was a popular Italian composer who created 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell ....
   arr. Harold G. Palmer; Overture from "L'Italiana in Algeri";
• August De Boeck arr. Maarten Jense; Impromptu
  Impromptu
  
  An impromptu is a free-form musical composition with the character of an improvisation, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano....
  ;
• Gioacchino Rossini arr. Walter Boeykens
  Walter Boeykens
  
  Knight Walter Boeykens January 6, 1938 Bornem, Belgium is a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens has an impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances that are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century....
  ; Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E-flat major;
• Frits Celis; Incantations op.22;
• Jean "Toots' Thielemans
  Toots Thielemans
  
  Jean-Baptiste Fr?d?ric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgium jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his highly accomplished Puccalo....
   arr. Eddy House; Bluesette;
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Rosamunde Incidential Music, D797;
• Peter Benoit arr. Johan De Doncker; Luim;
• Jan Van der Roost
  Jan Van der Roost
  
  Jan Van der Roost is a Belgium composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Rikudim: "Four Israeli Folk Dances";
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Toccata and Fugue in D minor
  Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  
  The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ repertoire composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1703 and 1707....
  ;

• de Haske Winds 14.001 © 1997, (p) 1997
• Jan Van Der Roost
  Jan Van der Roost
  
  Jan Van der Roost is a Belgium composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Rikudim: "Four Israeli Folkdances";
• Peter Benoit arr. Johan De Doncker;
• Fantasia 3;
• Luim;
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
   arr. R. Upten Holder; Russian Dance;
• Jan Van Der Roost
  Jan Van der Roost
  
  Jan Van der Roost is a Belgium composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp....
   arr. Maarten Jense; Puszta
  Puszta
  
  Puszta is a concept often associated with the traditional Hungary landscape. It means "plains", a vast wilderness of grass and bushes. With a capital letter and a definite article, it refers to the flattest parts of the Alf?ld ....
  ;

External links

• Fribourg, Suisse
• Zwolle, Netherlands
• Brussels, Belgium
• Netherlands
• Illinois, US
• California, USA
• Portugal
• Groningen, Netherlands
• London, UK
• , previously the American Symphonic Clarinet Choir
• Japan
• Japan
• Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
• Leiden, Netherlands
• Los Angeles, USA
• Seattle, USA
• Norway
• Slovenia
• Stockholm, Sweden
• UK
• Japan
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• Antwerp, Belgium

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• Bellison, Simeon
  Simeon Bellison
  
  Simeon Bellison , born in Moscow, he was naturalised American after settling in the US in 1921.An early clarinet choir in the United States was established in 1927 by Simeon Bellison, then first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic; from an initial eight members, the group's size grew by 1948 to 75 members....
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  Lucien Cailliet
  
  Lucien Cailliet was an American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist.Born in France, Cailliet studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon before migrating to the United States in 1918....
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• Cailliet, Lucien
  Lucien Cailliet
  
  Lucien Cailliet was an American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist.Born in France, Cailliet studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon before migrating to the United States in 1918....
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  Russell Howland
  
  Russell Howland was one of the most highly regarded woodwind teachers in the US. He studied at the University of Illinois. He was a professor of woodwinds at the University of Michigan until 1948....
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  John Morgan may refer to:...
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  Edward Palanker
  
  Edward Palanker is an United States clarinetist and university professor....
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• Theaker, Daniel
  Daniel Theaker
  
  Daniel George Theaker is a Neoromanticism composer, Conducting and woodwind instrumentalist. He is a self-described champion of the bass oboe and heckelphone, and a practitioner of the "Elastic scoring" orchestration techniques first conceived by Percy Grainger....
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