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Guest Artist Ethan Sloane
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Clarinetist Ethan Sloane, Professor of Music
at Boston University, earned his Bachelor
of Music degree at New England Conservatory,
and Masters and Doctorate degrees
at Yale University. He has taught at
Mannes College of Music (New York),
University of Northern Iowa, University of
Victoria, and West Virginia University, as
well as Boston University. Among his
many awards and honors, he has served as
Executive Assistant to the Director of the
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
and was a member of the artistfaculty
of the California Music Center. In
1976, he won First Prize at the Ars Vivus
Chamber Music Competition. In 1980, Professor
Sloane was the regional chair of the
International Clarinet Society.
Professor Sloane has been an artist-clinician
for the G. Leblanc Corporation,
and in 1981 he was awarded a Martha
Baird Rockefeller Grant. He has presented
numerous recitals, including performances
at Merkin Hall (New York City), the National
Gallery of Art, the California Music
Center, Kenyon College, Washington Jefferson
College, and Queen Elizabeth Playhouse
(Vancouver, BC).
Professor Sloane
has played concerts with the Pacific Wind
Quintet and has performed at the Marlboro
Music Festival. He is a former principal
clarinetist of the Symphony of the United
Nations, the Festival Orchestra of New
York, and the New Haven Symphony. He
has been a member of the Empire Trio of
New York since 1973. He founded the
Hampden-Sydney Music Festival (Virginia
) in 1980 and still serves as the Artistic
Director of this prestigious chamber music
festival. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane
Letters by Hampden-Sydney College
in 1991. Professor Sloane has been in his
present position at Boston University since
1984.
Ethan Sloane has enjoyed a long and
prominent career as performer, recording
artist, teacher, and arts administrator. As
soloist and recitalist he has appeared extensively
throughout North America, Europe,
and Asia. Much in demand as a chamber
musician, Dr. Sloane has produced recordings
both on CD and for National Public
Radio. His devotion to the extensive
solo and chamber music literature for clarinet
has earned critical acclaim, and his editions
of masterworks by Brahms and Mozart
have received wide acceptance.
