Eric Paul Mandat (born 1957) is an American clarinetist and composer. Mandat began his clarinet studies under the tutelage of

Richard Joiner Richard Joiner (March 17, 1918 – January 6, 1999) was an American clarinetist and teacher of clarinet. Life and career Born in Wichita, Kansas, he attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts, National Music Camp in 1936 and the Eastman School ...

of the

Denver Symphony The Denver Symphony Orchestra, established in 1934 and dissolved in 1989, was a professional American orchestra in Denver, Colorado. Until 1978, when the Boettcher Concert Hall was built to house the symphony orchestra, it performed in a successio ...

. He later studied with Lee Gibson, Keith Wilson, D. Stanley Hasty, and

Charles Neidich Charles Neidich (born 1953 in New York City) is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor. Early career A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich ...

. He received his undergraduate education at the

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...

and graduate degrees from

Yale School of Music The Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joi ...

and

Eastman School of Music The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman. It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...

. He has performed in the

Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenure ...

's MusicNOW Series (including as principal clarinet for

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

's 80th Birthday Concert under Boulez's baton and a performance of

Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Noé Golijov (; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work. Biography Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family ...

's ''Ayre'' with

Dawn Upshaw Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contempor ...

). He also performs with the Tone Road Ramblers, a band specializing in experimental and improvised music. His reviews of clarinet recordings have appeared in ''The Clarinet''. Mandat's recordings include ''The Extended Clarinet'' as well as recordings with the Tone Road Ramblers and the Transatlantic Trio. Mandat has taught at

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Southern Illinois University (SIU or SIUC) is a public research university in Carbondale, Illinois. Founded in 1869, SIU is the oldest and flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system. The university enrolls students from all 50 s ...

and

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. His students from Carbondale include Sean Osborn of the

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...

Michael Norsworthy, and Boja Kragulj. Mandat uses extended techniques such as

multiphonics A multiphonic is an extended technique on a monophonic musical instrument (one that generally produces only one note at a time) in which several notes are produced at once. This includes wind, reed, and brass instruments, as well as the human voice ...

and microtones. In a November 2005 review of Sean Osborn's album ''American Spirit'', ''Fanfare'' magazine remarked that Mandat's music creates "amazing technical effects for the instrument" that are "startling and eerie." In a review in ''The Clarinet'' of Mandat's ''Folk Songs'', the author found that "A composition of this caliber will most likely enter the performance repertoire as the representative piece of the decade!" Reviewing Mandat's ''The Extended Clarinet'' in ''The Clarinet'', Michele Gingras wrote, "In one word, 'The Extended Clarinet' is astonishing. Eric Mandat's process at writing and playing is bound to leave any listener in awe." Although most of his corpus consists of works for solo clarinet, he has also written for clarinet ensembles.Chamber Music of Eric Mandat by Suzanne Crookshank,

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(July 4, 2008)

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External links

Southern Illinois faculty page
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