Guy Yehuda – Media Kit (Bio & Photos)
Clarinetist
Clarinetist Guy Yehuda is recognized as an outstanding talent on the international concert stage
around the world today. He is the top prize winner of the 2003 Heida Hermanns International
Woodwind Competition, the 2004 Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, and the 2004
Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (as member of Trio di Colore.) Since his North American
Concerto debut with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra and conductor Peter Oundjian, Mr.
Yehuda has toured extensively in Europe, North America, and Israel. As principal clarinetist, Mr.
Yehuda has performed with the Israel Philharmonic, Lucerne Contemporary Festival Orchestra,
Chicago Civic Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati
Chamber Orchestra, among others as well as guest clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Yehuda performed on tours of Europe
and the U.S. under the batons of top conductors including Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Kurt
Masur, Kent Nagano, Yuri Temirkanov, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Andrew Davis, and Daniel
Barenboim. He performed and collaborated with the world’s top composers and performers such
as Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, pianist Menahem Pressler from the Beaux-Arts Trio and George
Benjamin. A highly demanded musician he has performed as soloist and chamber musician at the
Spoleto Festival (USA), Verbier Festival and Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Ottawa Chamber
Music Festival, Parry Sound Festival, Domain Forget Festival, Fountain Arts concert series, and
at the Israeli Chamber Music Festival at Kfar Blum.
Mr. Yehuda is a sought after recitalist throughout North America and Europe. He has performed
as soloist in prestigious halls and venues such as Carnegie Hall, Domain Forget, (Canada),
Chicago Symphony Hall, Palacio Fuz and Casa di Musica in Portugal, Mann auditorium in Tel
Aviv, and Dame Myra Hess Chamber Series to name a few. He is a particularly active chamber
musician and tours extensively with the award winning chamber music group: Trio di Colore
(with Yuval Gotlibovich-Viola and Jimmy Briere-Piano) of which he is the founding member.
Mr. Yehuda has appeared numerous times as a guest artist on CBC Canadian Radio, RadioCanada, WFMT Chicago, DRS Swiss Radio, Portugal National Radio, and Israel’s Classical radio
station, as well as TV appearances on Israel’s Channel 2 and Chicago’s Channel 25. Mr. Yehuda
has recorded with Hal Leonard productions, IU New Music Ensemble, and number of live
recordings for the CBC. A new CD recording by Mr. Yehuda for solo and trio music by French
composer Jean Francaix, was released on the XII-21 Canadian Label in 2009 as well as a new CD
recording with Albany records in the same year.
Professor Yehuda has given master classes throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and
Israel and taught clarinet at Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music. He is a Selmer-Paris
artist and an active clinician in the U.S. and abroad and has been frequently invited to judge on
national and international competitions, and a frequent soloist at the ICA ClarinetFest
conferences. Over the summer months he is the Artist–Teacher resident at the acclaimed Orford
Festival in Canada. Currently he serves on the faculty of the University of North Florida as
Professor of Clarinet and Chamber Music. As an accomplished conductor, Mr. Yehuda served as
Conductor-in-Residence of the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in Toronto, working with maestros
George Cleve, Leon Fleischer, and Gary Kulesha. And during his studies at Indiana University,
Mr. Yehuda worked with conductors David Effron and Imre Palo. Mr. Yehuda is also a published
composer and winner of the prestigious Israeli Sharet Composition Award, having worked
individually with Pierre Boulez, P.Q. Phan, Alexander Rappoport, Yinaam Leef, and Haim
Permont.
Mr. Yehuda studied with distinguished clarinetists James Campbell, Eli Eban, Avrahm Galper,
Charles Neidich, Larry Combs, Howard Klug, Alfred Prinz, and Yitzhak Katzap. He received his
Doctorate and Master’s Degrees from Indiana University Jacob School of Music, as well as a
Performer Certificate, the highest honor given to a performer at this venerable institution. Prior to
that Mr. Yehuda received his Artist Diploma and Bachelor’s Degree from the Glenn Gould
Professional Music School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
9745 Touchton Road Unit 624, Jacksonville, FL 32246
E-mail: g.yehuda@unf.edu Phone: 904-620-3836
Repertoire
Clarinet and Orchestra
ADAMS,JOHN - “Gnarly Buttons” Clarinet Concerto
BASSI, LUIGI - Fantasie on Rigoletto
BEN-HAIM, PAUL - Pastoral Variee
BUSONI, FERRUCCIO - Concertino
BRAHMS/Berio - Opus 120:1
COPLAND, AARON - Concerto
CORIGLIANO, JOHN - Concerto for Clarinet
CRUSELL, BERNHARD – Concerti 1 &3
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE - Premier Rhapsodie
FINZI, GERALD - Concerto
FRANCAIX, JEAN - Concerto
HINDEMITH, PAUL - Concerto
HOFFMEISTER, FRANZ - Concerto
KROMMER, FRANZ - Concerto in Eb Op 36
KURPINSKI, KAROL - Concerto
LUTOSLAWSKI, WITOLD - Dance Preludes
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX -Two Concert Pieces, op. 113/114 for clarinet, basset horn
MILHAUD, DARIUS - Concerto
MOZART, W.A - Concerto
NIELSEN, CARL - Concerto
ROSINNI,G. - Introduction, Theme and Variations
SPOHR, LOUIS - Concerti
SANDSTROM, SVEN-DAVID - Soft Music (strings, percussion)
SEIBER, MATYAS - Concertino
STAMITZ, JOHAN Concerto
STAMITZ, CARL – Concerti 1&3
STRAUSS, RICHARD - Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon
TOMASI, HENRI - Concerto
TOWER, JOAN - Concerto
WEBER, CARL.M. - Concertino
WEBER, CARL.M. - Concerti 1&2
YEHUDA, GUY – Clarinet Concerto
Clarinet and Piano
ARNOLD, MALCOLM - Sonatina
BABIN, VICTOR- Hillandale Waltzes
BAKER, DAVID- Clarinet Sonata
BASSI, LUIGI - Fantasie on Rigoletto
BAX, ARNOLD - Sonata
BENJAMIN, ARTHUR - Le Tombeau de Ravel
BERG, ALBAN - Vier Stucke Op 5
BERNSTEIN, LEONARD - Sonata
BIRTWISTLE, HARRISON- Linoi
BOZZA, EUGENE - Aria
BOZZA, EUGENE- Bucolique
BRAHMS, JOHANNES -Sonata in F minor Op. 120/1
BRAHMS, JOHANNES- Sonata in E flat Op. 120/2
BURGMULLER, BORBERT - Duo
BUSONI, FERRUCCIO- Elegie
CAHUZAC, LOUIS - Cantilene
CAHUZAC, LOUIS - Variations dur un Air du Pays D'oc
CARTER, ELLIOT - Pastorale
CAVALLINI, ERNESTO - Adagio-Tarantella
CHAUSSON, ERNEST - Andante et Allegro
COOKE, ARNOLD - Sonata
COPLAND, AARON - Sonata for Clarinet
DANZI, FRANZ - Sonate in Bb
DAVID, FERDINAND - Introduction, Theme and Variations
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE - Premier Rhapsodie
DENISSOW, EDISON - Sonate
DEVIENNE, FRANCOIS - Sonatas
EBENHOH, HORST - Sonate Op 56 #1
FINZI, GERALD - Five Bagatelles
FRANCAIX, JEAN - Tema con Variazioni
FRANCK, CESAR - Sonata in A
FREUND, DON - Offering (Fantasy on a Royal Theme)
GADE, NIELS - Fantasy Pieces Op 43
GENZMER, HARALD - Sonate
GLICK, SRUL - Suite Hebraique
GUASTAVINO, CARLOS - Sonata para Clarinete y piano
GUASTAVINO, CARLOS - Tonada y cueca
HEIDEN, BERNARD - Sonatina
HETU, JACQUES - Nocturne
HINDEMITH, PAUL - Sonate
HONEGGER, ARTHUR - Sonatine
HOROVITZ, JOSEPH - Sonatine
IBERT, JACQUES - Aria
IRELAND, JOHN - Fantasy-Sonata
JACOB, GORDON - Sonatina
JEANJEAN, PAUL - Arabesques
JEANJEAN, PAUL - Au Clair de la Lune
JEANJEAN, PAUL - Carnival of Venice
JEANJEAN, PAUL - Clair Matin
JENNER, GUSTAV - Sonata Op 5
JOLIVET, ANDRE - Meditation
KRENEK, ERNST - Kleine Suite
LEFEVRE, J.X. - Sonatas
LOVREGLIO, DONATO - Fantasia (La Traviata )
LOVREGLIO, DONATO - Fantasia sull' Opera Un Ballo in Maschera de Verdi
LUTOSLAWSKI, WITOLD - Dance Preludes
MARTINO, DONALD - Sonata
MARTINU, BOHUSLAV - Sonatina
MAXWELL DAVIES, PETER - Sonata
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX. B - Sonata in Eb
MESSAGER, ANDRE - Solo de Concours
MILHAUD, DARIUS - Caprice
MILHAUD, DARIUS - Duo Concertant
MILHAUD, DARIUS - Scaramouche
MILHAUD, DARIUS - Sonatine
MUCZYNSKI, ROBERT - Time Pieces
NIELSEN, CARL - Fantasy
PENDERECKI, KRZYSZTOF - Three Miniatures
POULENC, FRANCIS - Sonata
PRINZ, ALFRED - Sonate
PROKOFIEFF, SERGEI - Sonata Op 94
RABAUD, HENRY - Solo de Concours
REGER, MAX - Two Pieces
REGER, MAX - Sonatas Op.49/1&2, Op.107
REINECKE, CARL - Sonata "Undine”
SAINT SAENS, CAMILLE - Sonata
SCHUBERT, FRANZ - Sonata "Arpeggione"
SCHUBERT, FRANZ - Sonatinas
SCHUMANN, ROBERT - Fantasiestucke Op 73
SCHUMANN, ROBERT - Three Romances
STANFORD, CHARLES.V - Sonata Op 129
STANFORD, CHARLES.V - Three Intermezzi
TOMASI, HENRI - Introduction et Dance
WEBER, CARL.M. - Grand Duo Concertant
WEBER, CARL.M. - Variations Op 33
WEINER, LEO - Ballata Op 8
WEINER, LEO - Peregi Verbunk Op 40
YEHUDA, GUY - Sonata (1994)
Clarinet Solo
ARNOLD, MALCOLM - Fantasy
BABBITT, MILTON - My Ends are My Beginnings
BENTZON, JORGEN - Thema med Variationer
BERIO, LUCIANO - Lied
BERIO, LUCIANO - Sequenza IXa
BOLCOM, WILLIAM - Short Lecture on the Clarinet (Clarinet & Speaker)
BOULEZ, PIERRE - Domaines
BRAUN, YEHEZKEL - Hyperbole
CAGE, JOHN - Sonata
CAHUZAC, LOUIS - Arlequin
CARTER, ELLIOT - Gra
DENISSOW, EDISON - Sonate
DONATONI, FRANCO - Clair
DONIZETTI, GAETANO - Studio Primo
ERB, DONALD - Woody
FREEDMAN, HARRY - Lines
KOVACS, BELA - Hommages
KRENEK, ERNST - Monologue
LANG, ISTVAN - Monodia
LARSEN, LIBBY - Dancing Solo
MARTINO, DONALD - A Set for Clarinet
MARTINO, DONALD - B,A,B,B,IT,T
MAXWELL DAVIES, PETER - Seven Brightnesses
OSBORNE, WILLSON - Rhapsody
PENDERECKI, KRZYSZTOF - Prelude
PIAZZOLLA, ASTOR - Tango Etudes
RAN, SHULAMIT - For and Actor (A Clarinet)
ROZSA, MIKLOS - Sonata Op. 41
ROZSA, MIKLOS - Sonatina Op. 27
SIERRA, ROBERTO - Cinco Bocetos
STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ - Der Kleine Harlekin
STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ - in Friendship
STRAVINSKY, IGOR - Three Pieces
STUTSCHEWKSY, JOACHIM - Monologue
SUTERMEISTER, HEINRICH - Capriccio
YEHUDA, GUY - Three Preludes for Solo Clarinet (1997)
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Guy Yehuda
Clarinetist