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About
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Chester Brezniak
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For more than three
decades clarinetist Chester
Brezniak
has performed extensively as a chamber music, solo, and orchestral
player. He served as principal clarinet with the Orquestra
Sinfonica de Sao Paulo, Brazil, was a member of the Atlanta Ballet
Orchestra, principal with the Hanover Chamber Orchestra, and has
appeared with the Czech Radio Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, the Harvard
Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, and is
presently principal clarinetist with the Massachusetts Symphony
Orchestra.
A founding member of The
New York Times and Boston
Globe
critically acclaimed Cambridge Chamber Players, Atlanta Virtuosi,
Blackstone Trio, Soli Espri, and the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, Brezniak
has appeared as guest artist on the Fromm Foundation Series for
Contemporary Music at Sanders Theater, Harvard University; for the
Raphael Trio's chamber music festival in Ouray, CO; the summer chamber
series at St. Gaudens National Historic Site; with the Muir and Vermeer
String Quartets; Alea III under Gunther Schuller and Theodore Antoniou;
with the Zamir Chorale of Boston under Joshua Jacobson and with many
other groups. He appeared in concert as a member of the
Orliac
Trio on the "Entrée des
Artistes" Series in Orliac, France 2008; at
Clark University, 2011; and at the St. Gaudens National Historic Site’s
concert series. Mr. Brezniak has been heard on NPR both in
live and
recorded performances. As a founding member of Soli Espri and
the
Blackstone Trio, he has appeared on numerous concert series at
Allegheny College, Baruch College, the Duxbury Arts Complex, the
Currier Gallery in Manchester, NH, in addition to appearances in
Boston’s First Night Celebration and at the Worcester
Schubertiad for the American Schubert Institute in Tuckerman
Hall. On December 2, 2012 he appeared as soloist in Mozart's
Clarinet Concerto with the Waltham Symphony under Patrick
Botti.
Recordings include Centaur Records release of Clarinet Now,
and Zemlinsky’s
Trio in D Minor, Op.3
on Northeastern Records. A member of the Adjunct
Music
Faculty, UMass/Boston; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Clark
University, he received his B.A. at Bard College and M.M. at New
England Conservatory of Music where he studied clarinet with Attilio
Poto, Gino Cioffi, Charles Russo, and Harold Wright and chamber music
with Luis Garcia-Renart, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Kolisch.
Brezniak also performed in masterclasses with Robert Marcellus and
Stanley Drucker.