Guest Artist Frank Sidorfsky

Clarinet Master Class
Wed., Oct. 4, 2006, 10:00 a.m.
Gantner Concert Hall

Guest Artist Recital
Frank Sidorfsky, basset horn
Thurs., Oct. 5, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Phillips Recital Hall

Admission Free

Sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Department of Music & Theatre Arts Wind Division and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Frank Sidorfsky, clarinetist, received a B.M.E. degree from Emporia (Kansas) State University, and M.M. and D.M.A degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. He also spent four years in Navy Music, which included an eighteen-month tour in the Mediterranean. Dr. Sidorfsky's teaching experience includes being a woodwind specialist in the public schools of Flint, Michigan, teaching woodwinds at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and teaching woodwinds at Kansas State University from 1965 to 1999 where he is now an Emeritus Professor. His clarinet background includes private study from the late Leopold Liegl, formerly with the Minneapolis Symphony, Anthony Gigliotti, formerly solo clarinetist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the late Robert Marcellus, formerly solo clarinetist with the Cleveland Orchestra, and Stanley Hasty of the Eastman School of Music.

Dr. Sidorfsky has played with the Pensacola (Florida) Symphony, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Flint (Michigan) Symphony, L'Ecole Monteux Symphony Orchestra, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Beginning in the summer of 1988, he has been on the faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, as a clarinet (primarily), saxophone and flute teacher and performer.

Since 1986, Dr. Sidorfsky has taken special interest in the basset horn, a rare tenor-voiced member of the clarinet family, and has performed on it in a solo or chamber music capacity in sixteen different states and in Victoria, Canada. These include music festivals such as the Oklahoma University Clarinet Symposium, the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, Kansas, the International Clarinet Convention (ClarinetFest '97) in Lubbock, Texas, and the Clarinet Symposium at Texas Pan Am in Edinburg. In 2003 he gave a basset horn recital at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. He played basset horn solos at the ClarinetFest 2005 in Japan. In 2006 he played in basset horn trios at the Clarinet Cornucopia in DeKalb, Illinois. He currently plays clarinet with the Heart of America Band, the Manhattan Municipal Band and bass clarinet with the Topeka Symphony.

For More Information Contact: 
Dr. Richard 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