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David Shea currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Clarinet at
Texas Tech University, and is also principal clarinet in the Abilene
Philharmonic and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras. He has earned degrees from
the Oberlin Conservatory (BM), the University of Illinois (MM) and
Indiana University (DM). His teachers have been Howard Klug, Lawrence
McDonald, Eli Eban, James Campbell and Ronald Phillips. Shea was a
finalist in the Boosey and Hawkes North American Clarinet Competition
and was a concerto competition winner at the Oberlin Conservatory and
the Colorado Springs Summer Music Festival. He has performed at the
International Clarinet Association Conferences in Chicago, Lubbock,
Columbus, OH, and Salt Lake City. Other conferences include the Oklahoma
Clarinet Symposium, University of Montevallo Clarinet Symposium and the
Texas Tech University Clarinet Festival, which he founded in 2001. As a
member of Trio Montecino, he has commissioned 3 new works for the
ensemble. The Trio recently released their first CD on the Eroica
Classical Recordings label and had performances in Paris and Vienna in
May 2005 to promote the recording. The CD can be purchased at
http://www.eroica.com/triomont-music.html.
Other recent performances include solo recitals at the University of New
Mexico, University of Texas, University of Colorado and two-week
teaching residency at Indiana University. In addition to his solo and
chamber music performances, Shea has been active as an orchestral
musician performing 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
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. David Shea was a Creative and Performing
Arts Fellow at the University of Illinois and an Indiana University
Academic Fellow at IU-Bloomington. He was also recently awarded the
Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Teaching Award. David
Shea is a Buffet Crampon USA Performing Artist.
TTU Clarinet Studio Web Page:
http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/dshea.
To contact Dr. Shea, email david.shea@ttu.edu.
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