Gregory Barrett - klarinett

  Dr. Gregory Barrett is Professor of Clarinet at Northern Illinois University, a Buffet Group U.S.A. Artist, International Clarinet Association Illinois State Chair and Editor of Reviews for The Clarinet. He has performed and taught in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, throughout the U.S.A., and with the Lahti (Finland) Sinfonia Chamber Ensemble in Vienna's Musikverein. A member of the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra (Chicago), he is also a specialist in music from Finland; his recordings The Finnish Clarinet and Eliangelis are available on the ALBA label.

  Barrett takes special pride in the achievements of his students who have performed in groups such as the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and who have gone on to advanced or doctoral study at the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Iowa, the University of Kansas, University of Missouri – Kansas City, and Yale University. Since 2000 four clarinet studio members have been winners in the NIU Concerto Competition, including two Premiere winners. 

  Breitkopf & Härtel has published his arrangement of Jean Sibelius’s En Saga Septet, Billaudot Éditeur his 24 Clarinet Etudes from the World and The Three Shepherds Rock (with apologies to Franz Schubert), Edition Wilhelm Hansen offers his arrangement for clarinet and piano of Carl Nielsen’s Chaconne, Op. 32 and OR-TAV Music Publications distributes his Weimar Klezmer Trio, Klezmer Suite for clarinet choir and Oyfbli & Oyf tish un oyf benk (Flowering & It was a Grand Old Time) for solo clarinet with wind band.  

  Barrett’s degrees are from Northwestern University, SUNY-Buffalo and Indiana University. He is an avid bicycle racer and cross-country skier. His spouse, Katharine Whitelaw works in Information Technology, and their daughter, Eva Whitelaw Barrett will graduate from the University of Illinois in May.