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Gary Whitman is Professor of Clarinet and Division Chair of Woodwinds at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Active as a recitalist, he has performed at ClarinetFest conferences in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Maryland, and Missouri. His performances at international conferences include Paris, France, Ostend, Belgium, Stockholm, Sweden, and Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has presented masterclasses in Mexico City, Peru, Belgium, and Puerto Rico. His chamber music affiliations include the Texas Clarinet Consort, and Trio Con Brio, a TCU faculty trio dedicated to performing and commissioning music for clarinet, viola, and piano. Trio Con Brio has presented 11 chamber music commissions in the past five years. He has performed new works by Eric Ewazen in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as well as Osvaldo Golijov and Sebastian Currier at the “Cliburn at the Modern” series in Fort Worth. In addition to his position at TCU, Mr. Whitman is the bass clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony, performing in the classical subscription series, “Pops”, the opera and ballet productions at Bass Performance Hall. He holds the BME and MME degrees from the University of North Texas and was awarded the certificate de stage from the International Music Institute in Nice, France. In 2004, TCU conferred upon him the Dean’s Award for Research and Creativity. Mr. Whitman is an artist-clinician for Buffet Crampon USA, Inc. and in 2008 begins a two-year term as President of the International Clarinet Association.
www.garywhitman.com
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