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Charles Neidich
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Charles Neidich,
hailed by the New Yorker as "a master of his instrument and beyond,”
and called a legend in his time, is active not only as a soloist and
collaborator in chamber music programs, performing with leading
ensembles such as the St. Louis, Minneapolis, MDR , Moscow State
Symphonies, NHK Symphony and Tokyo Philharmonic and the Juilliard, Pro
Arte, Brentano, and Borodin Quartets, but also as a composer and
conductor, performing all three roles with the ensembles such as the
San Diego Symphony and the Tapiola Sinfonietta.
Known as a leading exponent of period instrument performance practice, Charles Neidich
was one of the first soloists to improvise cadenzas and ornament
classical concertos and has been active restoring original versions of
works and bringing them before the public, including those of Mozart,
Weber, Copland, and Schumann.
Also an ardent exponent of new music,
Mr. Neidich has expanded the technical possibilities of the clarinet
and has championed works especially of Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter,
Ralph Shapey, Donald Martino, Joan Tower, Helmut Lachenmann, and Edison
Denisov. His three woodwind quintets, "Sound and Fury" for
woodwind quintet and taped English Horn written in the memory of Ronald
Roseman, “La Mano Sinistra” for woodwind quintet with off-stage
flutist, and just last year his most recent quintet, ”And then
there were” have been premiered at the Juilliard School by the New York
Woodwind Quintet of which he has been member since 1985.
Mr.
Neidich's recordings are available on the Sony Classical, Sony Vivarte,
Deutsche Grammophon, Musicmasters, Hyperion, Bridge, Chandos and Cobra
labels. This past Fall he released a recording on the Bremen Radio
Recordings Label as soloist and conductor with the noted period
instrument ensemble from Bratislava, Solamente Naturali
including his reconstruction of the Mozart Basset Clarinet Concerto,
the Družecký concerto for 3 basset horns, and his reconstruction of
Mozart’s Adagio in F K. 580a for clarinet and 3 basset horns.
In
demand at summer festivals and master classes, Charles Neidich has been
long time participant at the Marlboro, Sarasota, Crusell, and Seoul
Spring Festivals, as well as the Weimar and Apeldoorn Master Courses.
With his wife, Ayako Oshima, he organizes the Kita Karuizawa Music
Festival in Japan. Very active in education, Mr. Neidich is on the
faculty of the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes
College of Music, and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens
College where he conducts their Chamber Orchestra. In 2004, at
Juilliard, he was awarded the William Schumann Award.
You'll want to visit his web site, charlesneidich.com/ .