Andrew Simon

Andrew Michael Simon an American clarinetist, is principal clarinet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

He made his debut in the Carnegie Hall Recital (Weill) Hall in 1989, after winning the Artists International Young Musicians Auditions Clarinet Award.

He is noted as one of the few clarinetists that has been performing the original 1948 version of the Copland Clarinet Concerto. In fact, it was with this concerto that he made his Australian concerto debut in 2000, giving the Australian premiere of the original version of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Marin Alsop.^[1]

References

↑ Review by the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Victoria

Birthday: February 17, 1963

External links

Andrew Simon web site

Clarinet

Clarinet family	A♭ clarinet E♭ clarinet Soprano clarinet Saxonette Quarter tone clarinet Basset clarinet Clarinette d'amour Basset horn Alto clarinet Bass clarinet Contrabass clarinets

Fingering systems	Albert Boehm Mazzeo Müller Öhler

Clarinet makers	Amati-Denak E. K. Blessing Buffet Crampon Johann Christoph Denner Benedikt Eppelsheim Stephen Fox Heinrich Grenser Howarth of London Jupiter Band Instruments Leblanc Iwan Müller Adolphe Sax Selmer Yamaha Corporation

Related	Clarinet choir Clarinet concerto Clarinet sonata Clarinet quintet Clarinet-violin-piano trio Clarinet-viola-piano trio

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