Clarinet Ensemble

Music Class | This program is completed

Advanced woodwind

9/14/2020-2/1/2021

6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$680.00

This advanced class is designed to teach jazz and improv for woodwinds of all voices, highest to lowest and is mostly focused on preparation for two concerts a year with Dance Clarinets and guest composers which will be streamed live for fudiences. Must be able to read music and have a 3 octave pitch range. Improv experienc a plus. Can be combined with private lessons. By audition only. 10 student maximum.

  • Due to COVID-19 restrictions, class for the Fall 2020 term will be held in the Recital Hall with social distancing measures in place. Masks are required, except when playing instruments.
Parran, John D.

J D PARRAN Composer, Performer, Educator 484 West 43rd Street #5-R NYC 10036 212-279-6426 jdparran.jd@gmail.com EDUCATION: M.A. ED. (mus), Washington University, St. Louis, MO B.A. (clarinet), Webster College, St. Louis, MO TEACHING: 1985-Present City University of New York (BMCC): adjunct lecturer, African-American music, jazz ensemble, western music history and woodwind class: My WW class is taught with the emphasis on visual/hand co-ordination and musical group (choir-like) co-operation. 1998 (Fall) Mills College: visiting professor for the semester; Black Music-Fused by Fire in the Americas; Jazz Improvisation; Graduate composition and improvisation. 2011-Present In Performance Music Workshop (Brooklyn): On-going residency as mentoring artist. Saxophone mechanism and tone production workshops, ensemble sessions in phrasing, jazz improvisation and dynamic balance, historical links in American music. All ages, intermediate to advanced. 2010-Present Greenwich House Music School: Director GHMS Clarinet ensemble, applied saxophone, clarinet, flute instruction. 1982-2010 Harlem School of the Arts: flute, clarinet and saxophone instructor; woodwind ensembles director and woodwind dept. chair(1985-98), jazz orchestra director (1992-98) RECORDINGS (selected) LABEL Window Spirits J D Parran solo MUTABLE MUSIC Beautiful Day Andrew Hill Omegathorp: Living City J D Parran/Mark Deutsch Y’ALL featuring David Darling J D Parran and Spirit Stage Y’ALL featuring the Poetry of Shirley LeFlore Digging It Harder From Afar New Winds VICTO Grenedilla Ken Peplowski CONCORD Don Byron plays the Music of Mickey Katz EL