Andrew Simon an American clarinettist, is the principal clarinet of the
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
He made his debut in the
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...
Recital (Weill) Hall in 1989, after winning the
Artists International Young Musicians Auditions Clarinet Award.
He is noted as one of the few clarinettists that have been performing the original 1948 version of the
Copland Clarinet Concerto. It was with this concerto that he made his Australian concerto debut in 2000, giving the Australian premiere of the original version of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop ( mɛər.ɪn ˈæːl.sɑːp born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate ...
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Review by the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Victoria
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References
Birthday: February 17, 1963
Discography
External links
Andrew Simon web site
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Living people
American classical clarinetists
21st-century clarinetists
Year of birth missing (living people)