Earlier this year, the clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg released two remarkable albums with two almost entirely different bands. Goldberg has left a mark in many modern improvising contexts, ...

Clarinetist Joaquin Valdepenas doesn’t want to give his sons – 12-year-old cellist Josue and 8-year-old violinist Alejandro – too hard a shove into the musical path. But neither does he want his ...

I very stubbornly stuck with the clarinet because I love the instrument and made them give me clarinet solos instead of saxophone solos on everything. I was always very proud to play clarinet. Ken ...

WAVERLY - The introduction did not go well. Julie Pauley joined the Don Bosco High School band two years ago. She was 16 at the time, making her - musically speaking - a relatively late bloomer. "I ...

I'm happy to have been invited to reflect on five clarinetists whose work has enriched my life, and to share a track by each of them. Clarinet, like many instruments, is a strict taskmaster — an ...