View my clarinet klezmer performance on video at YouTube:

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Biography:

Doctoral work, Clarinet Performance, Indiana University, 1985-86

M.M., Clarinet Performance, Northwestern University, 1984

Premier Prix (1st Prize), Clarinet, Montreal Conservatory, 1981

Premier Prix (1st Prize), Chamber Music, Montreal Conservatory, 1981

Michèle Gingras is Professor of Clarinet at Miami University (Ohio). She joined the faculty in 1986, and was named Hays Crossen Curry Distinguished Educator in 2002 and Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate School in 2005. She earned her M.M. at Northwestern University with Robert Marcellus, a Premier Prix in clarinet performance and in chamber music from the Montreal Music Conservatory with Rafaele Masella, and she studied in the doctoral program at Indiana University with Bernard Portnoy and Earl Bates.

Professor Gingras is an active recitalist, author, recording artist, and clinician. She performed as a soloist, as a member of the Miami Wind Quintet, and as a klezmer musician in Australia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Taiwan, Singapore, and throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She served ten summers as Principal clarinetist with the Echternach Festival Orchestra in Luxembourg. Previously, she was Principal Solo Clarinet with the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra (Chile). As a concerto soloist, she performed several works by contemporary composers, including Malcolm Arnold’s Concerto no. 2 with Sir Malcolm present.

Gingras recorded a dozen compact discs and ten solo recitals for Radio-Canada. Additionally, she recorded a commissioned duo with Emmy-Award clarinetist Richard Stoltzman for MMC Recordings in Boston (2008).

Her publications include over 150 articles and reviews for The Clarinet, CASS, Australian Clarinet and Saxophone, The Instrumentalist, NACWAPI, Canadian Winds, and other magazines, a 550-page scholarly book translation published by Roncorp, and her book Clarinet Secrets‹52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist was published by Scarecrow Press in 2004 (Revised Edition, 2006). In 2007, she published a widely distributed “Gear Guide” pamphlet about single reed instrument care as well as online educational material for Rico International. In 2008, she started writing a clarinet advice column in the magazine Australian Clarinet and Saxophone.

She was a Visiting Artist and Instructor at the Luxembourg Conservatory, the Oslo Music Academy (Norway), the Elder Conservatorium (Australia), Indiana University (Bloomington) the Guayaquil Symphony (Ecuador), and taught numerous master classes worldwide. She was the main guest artist for the Annual Clarinet Day at Arizona State University and the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Michele Gingras served on the Board of Directors of the International Clarinet Association (ICA) as Secretary, directed the ICA Composition Competition for nine years, and performed for twelve ICA conferences.

Michele Gingras is an Artist/Clinician for Buffet Crampon USA and Rico International.

Professor Gingras’ past and present research includes period clarinets, wind synthesizers, the tarogato (Hungarian folk instrument), klezmer (Jewish folk music), work ethics and job retention for musicians, performance anxiety, teaching with technology, and most recently, virtual reality environments. She is included in scholarly monographs such as The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The Essential Klezmer by Seth Rogovoy, and New Directions for Clarinet by Phillip Rehfeldt.

Videocasts and podcasts based on her book Clarinet Secrets may be downloaded by subscribing to her free podcasts on iTunes (go to iTunes Store, type “Gingras” and click “get”).

Website: Google me and type Michele Gingras to find my official website, where you will find photos, mp3s, videos, books, CDs, articles, my concert schedule, information about my clarinet studio, and more!