Russell Harlow

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Name = Russell Harlow


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Origin = Utah, United States of America
Instrument = Clarinet
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Genre = Classical music
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Russell Harlow, a clarinetist, grew up in Los Angeles and nowwhen lives in Utah. Russell is the co-director of the [http://www.pcmusicfestival.com. Park City International Music Festival and Autumn Classics Music Festival] and runs both the Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Consortium of Utah. He also founded and directed the Nova Chamber Series in Utah before joining the Park City Music Festival in 1984.

Biography

Harlow studied first with clarinetist Gary Foster, then Mitchel Lurie, and at the age of twenty-one, joined the Utah Symphony where he serves as Associate Principal Clarinet. He also studied with Harold (Buddy) Wright, the late Principal Clarinet with the Boston Symphony, and with violinist Charles Libove.

During July 2007, Russell Harlow performed at the International Clarfest in Vancouver, BC. This was his third time as guest performer for Clarfest - he performed the Schickele Quartet for Violin, Cello, Clarinet and Piano at the Lubbock, Texas, Clarfest and the Reger Quintet for Clarinet and Strings at the more recent Salt Lake City Clarfest. In Vancouver he will perform the Karel Husa "Evocations de Slovaquie" Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Cello with cellist Jesus Morales and violist Leslie Blackburn Harlow.

Harlow is currentlywhen working with clarinetist and mouthpiece expert Lee Livengood, on the design of a new clarinet mouthpiece. He has also republished a volume of etudes for clarinet by Louis DeSantis (with the permission and good wishes of the DeSantis family). The etudes are paraphrasic - melodic studies on difficult solo passages from Thomas, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakoff.

Harlow is also workingwhen on an interactive DVD-Rom history of the clarinet, though acquiring permissions to use 1-minute clips of some famous recordings has proved to be difficult and has slowed the project down a bitvague.

In addition to chamber music and orchestra performances and recordings, Harlow has recorded solos on a number of television and movie soundtracks.

Recentwhen CD Release: Works for Clarinets and Strings by Ingolf Dahl, Bohuslav Martinu and Karel Husa. ISOMIKE label.