Friday 6th November 2009 at 7.30 pm |
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D'hulster |
Clarinet Quintet Op. 16 (1st Performance) |
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Yann Ghiro was born in 1971 in Nice and studied clarinet and piano at the Nice Conservatoire, and subsequently at the Paris Conservatoire where he was awarded four First Prizes, including those for clarinet and bass clarinet. Following a period at the Mozart Academy in Prague, when he also made an extensive world tour with the Academy Quartet and Septet, he entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York where was awarded his Master's Degree. On his return to France he worked as a freelance player for a number of major French orchestras, including the Paris Bastille Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been principal clarinet with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since June 1998 and has performed as soloist in numerous concertos since then, having made his solo debut with the orchestra in October that year. |
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