David Shea
David Shea serves as Associate Professor of Clarinet at
Texas Tech University.
He also serves as Principal Clarinetist for the
Lubbock Symphony and Abilene Philharmonic Orchestras, and
has recently joined the music faculty at Rocky Ridge Summer
Music in Estes Park, CO.
Shea has performed as a soloist and chamber musician
throughout the United States, France, Belgium, Germany,
Brazil and Chile.
As a member of Trio Montecino, he has toured
extensively and recorded two critically acclaimed CDs, Trio
Montecino and Nuevo Sonido: Latin- American Trios.
These recordings are available on the Eroica
Classical Recordings label.
Shea has performed at the Clarinetfests in Chicago,
Columbus, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Kansas City, as well
as the OU Clarinet Symposium and Klarinetstage, Belgium.
In addition to his solo and chamber music
performances, Shea has played with the Indianapolis
Symphony, Fort Wayne Symphony, Columbus Philharmonic,
Champaign-Urbana Symphony and the Sinfonia de Camera. He has
also been involved in numerous CD recording projects for
Eroica Classical Recordings, Crystal, Naxos, Delos, Opus
One, Indiana University Recordings and Hal Leonard
Productions where he worked with such artists as Eugene
Rousseau and the Indiana Clarinet Trio.
As a teacher, Shea has been invited to do
master classes throughout the United States, Brazil and Belgium.
He has been invited on three different occasions to teach as a
sabbatical replacement at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana
University. Shea was
a Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the University of
Illinois, an Indiana University Academic Fellow, a member of the
Texas Tech Teaching Academy and a recipient of the Texas Tech
University President’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Shea has earned degrees from the Oberlin
Conservatory (BM), Oberlin College (BA-Mathematics), the
University of Illinois (MM) and Indiana University (DM). His
teachers have been Howard Klug, Lawrence McDonald, Eli Eban,
James Campbell and the late Ronald Phillips.
David Shea is a Buffet Crampon USA
Performing Artist and is Texas State Chair for the International
Clarinet Association.
TTU Clarinet Studio Web Page: http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/dshea.
To contact Dr. Shea, email david.shea@ttu.edu.