Reasons to Study Clarinet at EMU
Quality instruction
Professor Kimberly Cole Luevano is dedicated to teaching and helping her students reach their full potential. She earned her doctorate from Michigan State University, studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, France, and has performed extensively throughout the United States and in Canada, Brazil, and Europe. Dr. Cole is establishing herself as one of the leading clarinetists of her generation.
The opportunity to hear great faculty performances
Dr. Cole performs on campus an average of three times a year. Clarinetists have ample opportunity to hear a variety of clarinet literature performed well.
Lessons and Classes
All clarinet music majors, not just performance majors receive a one-hour lesson weekly with Dr. Cole, not a graduate student. Our music classes are taught by faculty and professors, not graduate students.
Perform
At Eastern Michigan, undergraduates perform in the top ensembles, not just graduate students, giving them terrific exposure to significant repertoire for winds and orchestra and terrific performance experience.
The Eastern Winds
Eastern Winds, Eastern Michigan's resident faculty woodwind quintet. Clarinetists have a chance to see and hear standard (and non-standard!) quintet music performed live.
Clarinet Studio Class
Clarinetists meet weekly in a classroom setting to discuss reeds and a multitude of other topics, learn orchestral excerpts, learn clarinet choir music, and teach and perform in front of each other.
Chamber Music
Clarinetists can participate in all different varieties of chamber music. Chamber Music groups including clarinet include clarinet quartets, wind quintets, and numerous duos and trios including clarinet. Chamber Music groups are coached frequently by Dr. Cole or other Department faculty.
Perform even more
On campus alone, students can compete in the University Concerto Competition, the William Stewart Competition, the Manilow Competition, and Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma Honors Recitals. Undergraduates frequently win the concerto competition,
and the William Stewart Competition is for undergraduates alone. Clarinetists have won the Stewart Competition five out of the last six years! Last year, a clarinetist was the recipient of the Manilow Performance Award. Additionally, students perform on the weekly department student recital and in clarinet studio classes and master classes.
Exposure to other great clarinetists
Dr. Cole regularly invites guests artists to campus for clinics, performances, and masterclasses. The recently formed EMU Clarinet Association
sponsored the 2005 EMU Clarinet Days which featured James Gillespie (University of North Texas), and Eric Mandat (Southern Illinois University) as well as clinics on Performance Anxiety, Clarinet Repair, and Clarinet Choir. Rebecca Rischin (Ohio University) also performed in recital.
Proximity to Detroit and the Detroit Civic Orchestra
Students can audition to be accepted to the Civic Orchestra, the training orchestra of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Proximity to the world-class concert going opportunities
Numerous concerts
are offered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the University of Michigan Musical Society.
Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Symposium
Undergraduates compete to represent the Department of Music at the University-wide symposium held each March. Clarinetists are regularly selected as Music Department Symposium Representatives.
The Eastern Michigan University Honors Program
Students may participate in the advanced course offerings of the Honors Program and can even create contracts with the program to present recitals for credit. Numerous members of the clarinet studio are members of the University Honors Program.
The EMU Community Music Academy
CMA
offers an opportunity to build a clarinet studio of your own. Many clarinetists at EMU maintain their own private clarinet studio either at EMU or at area middle or high schools.
At EMU, opportunities abound
The opportunity to perform often, in a variety of settings, and to receive the highest quality instruction preparing you for your future in graduate school, as a music educator, as a music therapist, or whatever else you can imagine!
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