2024 STATE CONFERENCE
CLARINET WORKSHOP
Master Class &
Reading Session
Sunday, November 17th, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Masterclass, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Reading Session, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
COST: $40 for the Clarinet Workshop attendees for MC and Reading Session.
$75 registration fee for the Master Class performers.
Maureen Hurd Hause will give a master class to selected students. MC performers will be selected by nomination from their teachers. Current members who actively send students to participate in NJMTA events are strongly encouraged to nominate MC performers.
The workshop will also include an informal clarinet choir reading session with Gi Lee for all attendees. Bring your clarinets!
New this year: Larry Frank, Master Woodwind Technician, will offer onsite instrument checkups for the woodwind students!
MAUREEN HURD HAUSE is Associate Director, Head of Woodwinds, and Associate Professor of Clarinet in the Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral clarinetist in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States, performing in New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding area in such venues as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and with the New Jersey Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the New York City Opera Orchestra, among others. She has performed at many International Clarinet Association (ICA) ClarinetFests® and is looking forward to playing another recital this August at ClarinetFest 2024 in Dublin, Ireland. She has appeared at the Norfolk, Skaneateles, and Lancaster Festivals and has recorded for Naxos and MSR Classics. Her solo CD Spelunk features premiere recordings of works by American composers. She is a Selmer, D’Addario, and Silverstein artist and the New Jersey State Chair for the ICA, and she has been recognized for her performances and study of Benny Goodman’s classical commissions and career. She earned DMA, MMA, and MM degrees from the Yale School of Music, studying with David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, and Ayako Oshima, and she earned her BM degree from Iowa State University in her native state, studying with Joseph Messenger.
GI LEE has been a regular substitute performer with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2006. He joined the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. as the second clarinetist for the 2017/2018 season and has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York as an associate clarinetist. Currently, he plays with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and spends his summers performing at the Grand Teton Music Festival and the GoingHome Project Orchestra in Korea.
Deeply committed to music education, Lee is a faculty member at the Philadelphia International Music Festival, has given masterclasses, and has coached chamber music at the Luzerne Music Center and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He is currently on the faculty of Boyer College of Music at Temple University and Temple University Music Preparatory.
A native of Seoul, Korea, Lee holds a bachelor’s degree from the Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) and received his master of music from Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University, where he studied under Ricardo Morales.
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