Dr. Richard W. Fletcher

Professor of Music

D.M.A., University of Iowa
M.M., Southern Illinois University
B.A., Arkansas Tech University

Academic Areas: applied clarinet, applied saxophone, woodwind techniques.

Dr. Richard W. Fletcher
229 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-2405
Email: fletchrw@uwec.edu

Richard W. Fletcher is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at UWEC. He holds a doctorate in Clarinet Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa where he was a student of distinguished music educator Himie Voxman, a Masters of Music from the University of Southern Illinois, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Arkansas Tech University. He is an active soloist and chamber musician, performing as principal clarinetist in the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and with the Wisconsin Woodwind Quintet and Sonora Reed Trio. He has performed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, the Schubert Club's Courtroom Concerts Series, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, on Wisconsin radio and television, and performed on international conferences of the International Clarinet Association, the International Double Reed Society, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and the International Wood Flute conference. He also performed in concert for the Edinburgh, Scotland Society of Musicians and in England and Scotland as a member of the Wisconsin-In-Scotland Chamber Players. As a Visiting Fellow at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music he had the privilege of studying the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) with virtuoso Goro Yamaguchi. Prior to UWEC, Dr. Fletcher was a faculty member at Arkansas Tech University . He has served on the faculties of the International Music Camp, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and Arkansas Tech University Music Camp. A CD of trios for clarinet, bassoon and piano, Clearly Three performs Trios from the Twentieth Century, is the result of his current research project in woodwind chamber music and will culminate in a bibliographic guide to chamber music for this ensemble.

Courses:

MUSI 160/360 Applied Clarinet
MUSI 162/362 Applied Saxophone
MUSI 208 Woodwind Techniques
MUSI 257/457 Woodwind Ensemble

Audio Excerpts by Richard Fletcher, Clarinet
(All excerpts are 2 minutes or less.)

Clarinet and Piano:

Leonardo Velazquez – Variaciones para clarinete y piano
I. Tema
II. Allegro
III. Tempo di blues
IV. Allegretto
VI. Allegretto giocoso

Hiraku Hayashi - Un cantar de mañana para clarinete y piano

Chamber Ensemble:

W.A. Mozart - Quintet in A Major, K. 581. II. Larghetto
Jack Delano - Funny Clown from Three Burlesques for clarinet and bassoon