Florida State clarinet professor to give recital at WMU

KALAMAZOO, Mich.--Clarinetist Jonathan Holden will perform a recital of chamber music with Marissa Olin, flute, and Eric Troiano, saxophone, on at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The program will include music by Libby Larsen and David Gillingham.

Holden is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Florida State University, principal clarinetist of the West Michigan Symphony, and a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest of numerous orchestras, he has performed with ensembles such as the Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Baton Rouge, and Lansing symphony orchestras, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Mobile Symphony, and the Sarasota Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Vireo Ensemble and the Argot Trio.

Holden is an ardent soloist and chamber music collaborator. He made his concert debut at the age of 17 and has since performed concertos by Mozart, Weber, and Copland at venues in Great Britain and the United States. As a student, he was winner of the Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain Competition and Michigan State University Concerto Competition, as well as a semifinalist in the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition.

The recital is free and open to the public.

For more information about the concert, visit wmich.edu/music or call (269) 387-4667.

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