J. Lawrie Bloom to perform John Adams' "Gnarly Buttons"

Rico Administrator — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:03:07 GMT

J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony and Clarinet professor at Northwestern University will be performing John Adams' "Gnarly Buttons" at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the Northwestern University Evanston campus at 7:30om on Friday February 25th. John Adams will be conducting the Northwestern University School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble, as part of his 2005 residency at the school.

A versatile player, J. Lawrie Bloom has been heard in chamber, orchestral and concerto appearances on soprano clarinet, basset clarinet and bass clarinet. He began studying piano at four and switched to the clarinet at nine. He continued studies at the Columbus Boychoir School, with whom he toured the U.S., Canada and Japan, singing and playing the clarinet. At
that same time he came under the guidance of Roger W. McKinney, later
studying with Anthony M. Gigliotti.

Lawrie has performed at the Ambler, Grand Teton, Ravinia and Spoleto festivals, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. Lawrie toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with the Chester, Chicago Symphony, and Mendelssohn String Quartets, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and members of the Ridge, Orion and Vermeer string quartets. He has been heard many times in live concerts over the airwaves of WFMT in Chicago, and in
live recital for the Australian Broadcast Company.

In September of 1980 Sir Georg Solti invited Lawrie to join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in the position of Clarinet and Solo Bass Clarinet. Previous to this he had held similar appointments with the Phoenix Symphony, the orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony.

Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in Clarinet at Northwestern University. He has presented master classes all over the world, and is an Artist Performer for RICO.

J. Lawrie Bloom
clarinet and bass clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Senior Lecturer in Clarinet,School of Music
Northwestern University
60 Arts Circle Dr
Evanston, IL 60208

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