Abstract
The Grace Goudy Distinguished Artists Series season will open with a concert by world-renowned clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman, joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Yehudi Wyner at the piano. The concert is part of a week-long residency of events beginning September 13 and is cosponsored by the Salem Chamber Orchestra. The SCO concerts, conducted by guest artist Susan Davenny Wyner, will perform several works by Wyner and feature Stoltzman as soloist in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. In addition, the artists will present a master class and several guest lectures.
Cited as “The greatest clarinetist of the century” (The San Francisco Chronicle), and “the most
distinguished crossover clarinetist since Benny Goodman”
(The Washington Post), Richard Stoltzman has appeared with
over 100 orchestras, as a captivating soloist and chamber
performer, an innovative jazz artist, and a prolific, two-time
Grammy Award winning recording artist with a discography
numbering over 50 releases.
Awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his Piano Concerto
“Chiavi in mano,” Yehudi Wyner’s compositions include over
60 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo voice and
solo instruments, piano, chorus, and music for the theater, as well as liturgical services for worship. He has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Library of Congress, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Fromm Foundation. His recording “The Mirror” on Naxos won a 2005 Grammy Award, and
his Horntrio (1997) was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wyner has an active career as solo pianist
and chamber musician and has been Keyboard Artist of the Bach Aria Group since 1968. Wyner
is married to SCO guest conductor, Susan Davenny Wyner, whose conducting has been described
as “richly textured and emotionally compelling” (New York Times), “rousing and joyous” (Chicago
Tribune), and “musically and emotionally fearless” (Boston Globe).