This new work featured extended clarinet techniques, such as flutter tonguing, barrel crying, and even coughing. The finished product, which was to provide listeners with a particular and distinct trait of Orange County, was inspired by the spooky Californian Santa Ana winds, which later became the name of the work, Santa Ana’s. The work gave the audience a very clear soundscape of the circus act known as equilibristics, or Devil Sticks.įollowing Devil Sticks was a piece commissioned for OCCC by Clifford Tasner, a prominent Hollywood based Film Score composer. After an ethereal, and slow contemplative middle section, the piece fires up again similar to the beginning and concludes abruptly with an exciting and energetic crescendo figure. A brief minimalistic intro is followed by sudden scaling passages, large intervallic leaps, and dynamic extremes. The piece, subtitled Equilibristics, holds true in sound representation to the title of the piece. The first piece on the program was Devil Sticks by Scott McCallister. The preparation involved for this particular program was one of the most intense, according to members of the OCCC. The rehearsals were once a week for three hours.
I am pleased to say, as the President of the CSUF Clarinet Consort, that this collaboration is the first of its kind for both the CSUF Consort and the OCCC.īoth groups began rehearsing together at the end of May. Their mission statement is to highlight the beautiful sounds of a clarinet choir by commissioning new works for this instrumentation and ensemble, as well as collaborating with outside groups, such as the CSUF Clarinet Consort, to provide aspiring and focused clarinet students the experience to perform alongside local professionals. The OCCC is a professional consort consisting of clarinetists who live and regularly perform in Orange County. This performance came from a newly formed collaboration of the Orange County Clarinet Consort (OCCC) and the CSUF Clarinet Consort. This was the first time that myself, and three other members from the clarinet studio at CSUF were invited to perform at the festival. I have attended ClarinetFest in the past, Northridge-2011 and Assisi, Italy-2013, yet this time was extra special.
This annual festival takes place all over the world, and this year’s festival was held at The University of Kansas. In July 2016, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the International Clarinet Association’s annual ClarinetFest.
My study of profession is classical clarinet. Greetings! My name is Joshua Phillips and I am a senior, Bachelor of Music Performance major at California State University Fullerton.
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