Academic Areas:
Clarinet, Instrumental Music, Conducting, Music History
Degrees:
D.M.A. in Clarinet Performance, University of North Texas
M.M. in Clarinet Performance, University of North Texas
B.M. in Music Education, Tennessee Technological University
Phone: (940) 898-2588
Email: gevans@twu.edu
Garry Evans is director of the TWU Wind Symphony and clarinetist with the faculty instrumental ensemble, the Zephyr Winds. He also teaches music history, conducting, and applied lessons on clarinet and saxophone. Dr. Evans serves as E-flat clarinetist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, “America’s Premier Wind Band,” under the direction of Jerry Junkin. In July of 2008, he appeared as a featured artist at the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest® in Kansas City, Missouri performing a newly commissioned work by award-winning composer Robert Jager. He has been a featured soloist with the North Texas Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon and has recorded extensively under Mr. Corporon's baton over the past decade. He is a former principal clarinetist with the Garland and Las Colinas Symphony Orchestras and was the highest ranked American in the 2001 International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, finishing second. His teachers include James Gillespie, John Scott, Dan Hearn, and Bruce Dinkins. Dr. Evans is a Selmer Artist.
Related Links:
Dallas Wind Symphony
International Clarinet Association
Texas Music Educators Association
College Band Directors National Association
World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
The College Music Society
The Recording Academy
Course numbers and titles:
Undergraduate
MU 2001, 2002, 4001, 4002 Woodwinds (Clarinet and Saxophone)
MU 2713 Understanding the Arts: Music
MU 3041 Woodwind Techniques
MU 3313, 3323 History of Music I, II
MU 3541 Instrumental Ensemble (Wind Ensemble)
MU 3542 Conducting I
MU 3553 Secondary Music and Conducting
MU 3581 Chamber Music
Graduate
MU 5001, 5002 Woodwinds (Clarinet and Saxophone)
MU 5541 Instrumental Ensemble (Wind Ensemble)
MU 5581 Chamber Music
MU 5913 Instrumental Literature
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