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Biographies (click to view) the Cleveland Duo and James Umble
The trio has also performed and lectured at important national and international conferences including the annual Chamber Music America Conference in New York City, the World Saxophone Congress in both Montreal and in Minneapolis, and the NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and at U of Georgia in Athens. Their recent (and upcoming) concert seasons have, and will have, taken them to California, Arkansas, Kansas, Oregon, North and South Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York City, throughout Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The trio also regularly performs in Canada and has appeared in concert and in residence in Mexico City. In April, 2003, they were the Heartland Arts Fund Artists in Education in their annual Rural Residency Program for a series of concerts for school children in Kansas. As educators, the trio has lectured and held clinics and workshops at such institutions as the Oberlin Conservatory, U. of Toronto and Western Ontario, Northwestern University and Chicago College of Performing Arts, Indiana University, the Manhattan School and Mannes College of Music in New York City, Miami University and Florida State, U. of Oregon, Lawrence University, Wisconsin, the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City and dozens more. They are on the Fee Support Roster for the Ohio Arts Council which subsidizes their appearances throughout Ohio. Actively involved in the performance of new music, The Cleveland Duo & James Umble were the recipients of five new works by members of the Cleveland Composers’ Guild who sought, by way of competition, to write for the trio. This project culminated in a special concert in May of 2008 at Cleveland State University in which all five works were premiered. Their repertoire contains several such new works as well as other original repertoire for their unusual combination and transcriptions of music by Bach, Handel, Ravel, Piazzolla, Bartok, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Erik Satie, and many more, some of which the trio has been granted exclusive performance rights by major publishing houses. Their collaborative CD, “Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” on the Dana Label was the recipient of a 1993 Grammy nomination citation in five categories, including best chamber music disc. Stephen Warner
Mr. Warner is a founding member of The Cleveland Duo with his wife, pianist and violinist, Carolyn Gadiel Warner, and The Cleveland Duo and James Umble, noted classical saxophonist. Both ensembles have been featured in numerous national and international publications such as Strad Magazine and The Saxophone Journal and tour actively throughout North America. In conjunction with The Cleveland Duo, Mr. Warner has performed as soloist with the Canton Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra as well as with the Wind Ensembles of Oberlin College Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Florida State University, Northwestern University School of Music, the University of North Texas and numerous others. In September of 2010, he traveled to Australia where, as part of The Cleveland Duo, he performed and lectured at the Sydney and Brisbane Conservatories of Music. Carolyn Gadiel Warner
Ms. Warner has performed in the violin and keyboard sections (where she holds the Marc and Marjorie Swartzbaugh Endowed Assistant Keyboard chair) of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1979, prior to which she served in the same capacities with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. She is currently on the chamber music faculty at The Cleveland Institute of Music and holds annual concerts in collaboration with her students and colleagues entitled “Carolyn Warner and Friends” which are frequently heard over the local airwaves as well as streamed for international broadcast. Ms. Warner appeared at the Edinburgh Festival to a capacity audience at the Queens’ Hall in a concert that was simulcast over B.B.C. Radio. She has also performed numerous times as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and in duo concerti with her husband, violinist, Stephen Warner with chamber orchestras in Florida, Ohio and Western Canada. In September, 2010, together with Stephen Warner, she performed, coached and lectured at the Brisbane and Sydney Conservatories of Music in Australia.
James Umble
Dr. Umble holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Susquehanna University and a Master’s in Saxophone Performance from Bowling Green State University under the direction of Dr. John Sampen. He is also the recipient of a First Prize in Saxophone Performance from the National Conservatory of Music, Bordeaux, France where he studied with famed saxophonist, Jean-Marie Londeix. Dr. Umble’s book, “Jean-Marie Londeix, Master of the Modern Saxophone” profiling the life and pedagogy of this great musical figure was published in June 2000 in two languages by Roncorp Music Publishers. Hailed by Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “...one of the most elegant exponents of his instrument...”, Dr. Umble was the featured in the cover article of the September-October, 1997 issue of Saxophone Journal. Also active as a soloist with orchestra and wind ensemble, Dr. Umble performed in January of 1999 with the U.S. Navy Band at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as well as numerous other ensembles. He has also performed as a saxophonist in select repertoire with The Cleveland Orchestra. In August of 2005, he was invited to participate as a recitalist, lecturer and teacher at the International Single Reed Festival in Xi’an, China and has traveled throughout North America as a performer, clinician, teacher and lecturer in collaboration with his colleagues, Stephen and Carolyn Warner of the Cleveland Duo.
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