Many thanks to our sponsors who help make this festival possible: Bill Morris Clarinet Fund, Buffet, and Vandoren
Jazz meets the Classic:
Celebrate the clarinet and its repertoire with associate professor of clarinet Caroline Hartig, Eddie Daniels, and special guests, as well as Ohio State students and alumni. The festival will feature performances, master classes, clinics and vendors. Clarinet
Spectacular is open to clarinetists of all ages and abilities with activities for advanced college and high school students, professionals and clarinet enthusiasts. Hartig is associate professor of clarinet at Ohio State and is an acclaimed clarinet soloist and recording artist, having performed throughout the United State, Europe, and Asia. In demand as a master teacher and clinician, Dr. Hartig has been a guest clinician at the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference, the Ruth Lewis International Clarinet Competition, Tel Aviv, Israel and the Vienna Conservatory. She currently serves on the board of directors of the International Clarinet Association. Headliner Eddie Daniels, born in New York City, is a prolific American musician. Though he is best-known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet. Daniels was born in 1941 to a Jewish family and raised in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn. He became interested in jazz as a teenager, studying the alto sax and at 15 he performed at the Newport Jazz Festival Youth Competition. By the time he entered college he also was playing clarinet. Daniels has toured and recorded with a variety of bands, small groups and orchestras, and appeared on television many times. Since the 1980s he has focused mainly on the clarinet. He has played with Thad Jones, and most recently has been featured as a guest artist with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, on the album Swingin' for the Fences, the first album by the band. He featured in Goodwin's arrangement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor on XXL, and on the Big Phat Band's album The Phat Pack on "Under the Wire."
