Mark Margolies (Eb
sopranino / Bb soprano) worked
for over twenty years as a freelance musician in the Boston area. He
could regularly be found playing clarinet, Eb and bass clarinets in
orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout New England, as well as
saxophones, flute, oboe and bassoon in theater pits, klezmer ensembles
and other groups. A champion of new music, Mark has many premiers
to his credit including Julian Wachner’s Clarinet Concerto which
was written for him and commissioned by the Quincy Symphony Orchestra. He
has been a participant in every Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
since 1991, where he worked with such composers as Martin Boykan, Milton
Babbitt, Marjorie Merryman, Andrew Imbrie, Bernard Rands, Sara Doncaster
and many others. He has recorded for the Albany, ARSIS Audio
and Denouement Record labels. He taught clarinet at Boston College
since 1995 and woodwinds at Brookline Music School since 1989. In
October of 2008, Mark moved to the San Diego area where he teaches
and works as a freelance woodwind player. He performs regularly
at The Old Globe Theatre, The San Diego Civic Theater, Starlight Theater,
San Diego Lyric Opera, San Diego Clarinet Society, and other venues
around Southern California. He is a member of The San Diego Clarinet
Quintet, JAMB, and The Windsong Consort, a mixed chamber music group
based in Temecula. He holds degrees in music and communication
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Richard Robinette (Bb
soprano) has been in the San Diego area since 1953. While
attending Mission Bay High School (1954-1958) he sat principal clarinet
in several all-California and national high school honor bands and
was featured soloist with the La Jolla Civic Orchestra at age 16. He
graduated with distinction in clarinet performance from San Diego State
University where he recorded Three Songs for Clarinet and Piano on
The Contemporary Composers label, with composer David Ward-Steinman
on piano. He taught music at the high school level for seven years,
and is professor emeritus from Southwestern College where he lectured,
performed, conducted, and was in high demand as an adjudicator and
coach. During his years as a private instructor and coach he placed
students in the United States Air Force Band in Washington and the
Royal Arts Academy. He currently is a member of several San Diego performing
groups, including the San Diego Concert Band, the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble,
the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, and the San Diego Festival
Orchestra. |
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Jim Reed (Bb
soprano) studied
woodwind instruments in the Burbank public schools. Later, he received
engineering degrees from UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University.
Subsequently, he pursued two careers simultaneously; engineer-manager-business
executive by day, and big band saxophonist/ clarinetist at night and
on weekends. Recently retired, he studied music and clarinet at UCSD,
with Professor Robert Zelickman. He is an avid and active performer
of jazz, popular, and chamber music. In addition to performing with
the San Diego Clarinet Quintet, he is a member of the Coastal Communities
Concert Band, Coastal Cities Jazz Band, Pacific Wind Quintet, Encinitas
Piano
Trio, San Diego Saxophone Quartet, Clarinet Marmalade quartet, La Jolla
Piano Trio, "Triplicity”, and “Terzetto”. Jim
was awarded the prestigious “Profiles in Music Education” honor
by the San Diego Youth Symphony for 2010/2011 for his teaching excellence
and support of music education in San Diego County. |
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Jim George (Eb
alto / Bb soprano) began
his music training at age five when his father started teaching him
the secrets of the clarinet. He earned Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, studying clarinet with
Nestor Koval and Bernard Cerilli. He studied chamber music with Bernard
Goldberg and Marcel Moyse and completed his clarinet studies with David
Weber in New York. Jim maintains an active solo and chamber music schedule
and freelances in San Diego as a woodwind doubler, where he adds flutes
and saxes to his arsenal to play Broadway shows. |
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Jonathan Crick (Bb
bass) studied
clarinet with Charles Freebern, Don Baird and Daniel Magnusson. He
holds Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in music from SDSU, having
been awarded the Outstanding Music Major and Outstanding Orchestra
Member awards in his senior year. Since 1965 he has performed with
numerous ensembles in San Diego, and has performed solo works in Matsumoto
and Kyoto, Japan, Galway, Ireland, and Borlange, Sweden. He has given
private music lessons in San Diego and in Galway, Ireland, where he
introduced the Suzuki Recorder Method in that country. Jon also taught
music for the Sweetwater and San Diego Unified school districts, and
started the K-6 elementary instrumental music magnet program at Baker
Elementary. Currently working for XETV as an engineer, Jon continues
to perform with various ensembles in San Diego, including the San Diego
Clarinet Quintet and the San Diego Clarinet Society Clarinet Choir.
He also performs regularly on the shakuhachi (Japanese flute) for cultural
and educational events. |