Monday, February 5, 2024
Open to grades 9-12
Registration Fee: $25
Application Deadline: Wednesday, January 24
At this event, participants will have opportunities to:
Check-in: 8:30am, Fine Arts Building
Performance: 5:30pm, FAB Recital Hall
Continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks provided
Conductor: Dr. Alison Gaines: Bassist Music Director of Kearney Symphony Orchestra and Ron Crocker Chair of Orchestra, Music Director of Kearney Symphony and UNK Associate Professor of Orchestra and Bass
Dr. Ting-Lan Chen: Gerald Feese Professor of Music, Violin/Viola
Dr. Noah Rogoff: UNK Professor of Cello, Director of Music Business, and Director of The UNK String Project
Connie Moon: Concertmaster, Hastings and Kearney Symphonies
The UNK Clarinet & Flute Day has been an annual event since 2017, and its back for 2024 at UNK!
This workshop is FREE and OPEN to middle and high school clarinet and flute players and their teachers. Clarinet instruction will be provided by UNK Professor of Music Dr. David Nabb. Flute instruction will be led by UNK Flute Professor Franziska Brech.
Clarinet players will refresh their fundamentals and work on clarinet choir music with Dr. Nabb. Flute players will have the chance to explore chamber music for flutes with and without piano.
The workshop will culminate with all participants performing their pieces in a recital! More information and sheet music will be emailed to registered participants a week or two before the event.
Friday, April 19, 2024
6-9pm, Fine Arts Building Recital Hall
Open to grades 11-12
Application Deadline: Friday, April 5
Bring your friends and family to hear you play a movement of a concerto with a live orchestra - the Kearney Symphony Orchestra! Participants will be chosen from students across the region to represent a wide variety of orchestral instruments.
This is a not a competitive event. Soloists will be selected who represent a variety of instruments and locations but duplication of some selections and locations among soloists is possible.
The 2025 Honor Band and Choral Clinic will be held on Monday, January 27, 2025. Information will be emailed to directors in August.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Brian Alber (alberbw@unk.edu).