Clarinet Recital & Master Class featuring Staff Sgt. Parker Gaims

Clarinetist with “The President’s Own”

United States Marine Band

Saturday, December 2, 2017

2:00-4:30pm

*FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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Hosted by Dr. Rie Suzuki,

Rowan University Clarinet Professor

Recital Program includes:

Rabaud, Solo de Concours

Stanford, Clarinet Sonata

Muczynski, Time Pieces

Mendelssohn, Concert Piece for Basset Horn and Clarinet

Assisted by Yahan Liu, piano, and Dr. Rie Suzuki, clarinet

For more information, contact Dr. Rie Suzuki:  suzuki@rowan.edu

Guest Artist Biography:

Clarinet player Staff Sergeant Parker Gaims joined "The President's Own" United States Marine Band in September 2013. Staff Sgt. Gaims began his musical training at age 9 and graduated from Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Los Angeles in 2007. He attended DePaul University in Chicago where he earned a bachelor's degree in clarinet performance in 2011. In 2013, he earned a master's degree in clarinet performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He studied with Julie DeRoche of DePaul, Larry Combs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Steven Cohen of Northwestern.

Prior to joining the band, he was a graduate assistant at Northwestern, a bass clarinet teaching assistant at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, and performed with the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Staff Sgt. Gaims performs with the Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra at the White House, in the Washington, D.C., area, and across the country during the band's annual concert tour. Several notable performances include:  Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Opus 115 at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in 2014; Wayne Oquin's Tower Ascending with the DePaul University Wind Symphony in Chicago, where the ensemble also premiered his original composition Seventh Street March in 2015; and his original composition Fantasy Overture for Clarinet Choir and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio K. 411 on the Marine Band's Chamber Music Series in 2016.