{"id":23770,"date":"2015-04-02T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=23770"},"modified":"2015-04-02T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:54:43","slug":"single-reed-summit-recital-clifford-leaman-eric-mandat-at-nutt-auditorium-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/single-reed-summit-recital-clifford-leaman-eric-mandat-at-nutt-auditorium-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Reed Summit Recital – Clifford Leaman & Eric Mandat at Nutt Auditorium 4\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clifford Leaman<\/strong> (left) serves as Professor of Saxophone at the University of South Carolina<\/strong>, and he is currently president-elect of the\u00a0North American Saxophone Alliance<\/strong>. Leaman is in great demand as a soloist and clinician and has performed and taught throughout\u00a0the United States, Canada, Italy, Spain, France, Slovenia, Sweden, Thailand and in China where he was a featured guest artist eight\u00a0times since 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

An avid supporter of contemporary music, Leaman has commissioned and given the world premiere performances\u00a0of numerous works, including concertos by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers, Leslie Bassett<\/strong> and Michael Colgrass<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Leaman\u00a0received the Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Lebanon Valley College<\/strong>, and the Master of Music and Doctor of\u00a0Musical Arts degrees in performance from the University of Michigan<\/strong> where he was a student of Donald Sinta<\/strong>. He served on the\u00a0faculties of Furman University<\/strong>, Eastern Michigan University<\/strong> and the\u00a0University of Michigan<\/strong> prior to his appointment at the\u00a0University of South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2028Clarinetist and composer Eric Mandat<\/strong> (right) is Professor of Music and Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University<\/strong> at\u00a0Carbondale<\/strong>, where he teaches clarinet and graduate courses in musical analysis. He is internationally recognized for his\u00a0groundbreaking contributions to contemporary clarinet music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mandat tours world-wide as a soloist and chamber musician,\u00a0presenting lectures and recitals featuring new American clarinet music as well as traditional repertoire. He has premiered his works\u00a0at international conferences in Chicago, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vancouver, and Porto, and has appeared as soloist with the Latvian\u00a0National Chamber Orchestra<\/strong>, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra<\/strong>, and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mandat is a member of the\u00a0Chicago Symphony<\/strong>‘s MusicNOW<\/strong> ensemble, which has performed under the direction of Maestro Pierre Boulez<\/strong>. Mandat received\u00a0his education at the University of North Texas<\/strong> (B.M.), the Yale School of Music<\/strong> (M.M.), and the Eastman School of Music<\/strong>\u00a0(D.M.A.). His principal teachers included Richard Joiner, Lee Gibson, Keith Wilson, Stanley Hasty, and Charles Neidich.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Free Admission.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clifford Leaman (left) serves as Professor of Saxophone at the University of South Carolina, and he is currently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":23771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6214,6209,6215,6182,6217,6183,6213,6210,6211,5435,6208,4298,7067,6207,6212,6216,655,6110],"class_list":["post-23770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-chicago-chamber-orchestra","tag-clarinet","tag-cleveland-chamber-symphony","tag-clifford-leaman","tag-donald-sinta","tag-eric-mandat","tag-latvian-national-chamber-orchestra","tag-leslie-bassett","tag-michael-colgrass","tag-music-department","tag-musicnow","tag-nutt-auditorium","tag-ole-miss","tag-single-reed-summit-recital","tag-southern-illinois-university","tag-university-of-michigan","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-university-of-south-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0406FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}