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One-Hour Clarinet, or Bass Clarinet Lesson With Timothy Zavadil

Item Number
510
Estimated Value
100 USD
Sold
40 USD to pcplum
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

One-hour clarinet or bass clarinet lesson. Location of the lesson is at the discretion of the instructor.

 

Timothy Zavadil joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 2007 as clarinetist and bass clarinetist, and he has since played those instruments as well as saxophone, contrabass clarinet and basset horn. He was previously a member of the Louisville Orchestra, Toledo Symphony and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He has also performed with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, under such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Sir George Solti, David Robertson, Zubin Mehta and Christoph Eschenbach.

 

Zavadil has been active with a variety of summer festivals: he serves as bass clarinetist of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in Door County, Wisconsin, and has performed with the Spoleto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and National Repertory Orchestra. He has also participated in the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall.

 

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Zavadil holds master and bachelor of music degrees from, respectively, Northwestern University and DePaul University, and counts J. Lawrie Bloom, Russell Dagon, John Bruce Yeh and Larry Combs among his primary teachers. He has taught at the University of Louisville and has performed chamber music with a number of ensembles based in the Twin Cities, Louisville and Toledo.