 |
David Shea currently serves as an Associate 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 has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and South America.
As a member of Trio Montecino, he recently toured in Belgium, Germany, and the United States to promote
the release of their second CD, Nuevo Sonido: Latin- American Trios, which is available on the Eroica
Classical Recordings label
(http://www.eroica.com/triomont-music.html).
Shea has performed at the International
Clarinet Association Clarinetfests in Chicago, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Kansas City, as well
as the OU Clarinet Symposium, Univesity of Montevallo Clarinet Symposium and most recently, at Klarinetstage,
Belgium. 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.
In addition to his solo and chamber music performances, Shea has performed as an orchestral musician 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.
As a teacher, Shea has given master classes throughout the US and South America. He has been invited twice
to teach as a sabbatical replacement at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He
has also participated in a Big 12 Fellowship grant with Dan Silver at UC-Boulder, where innovative teaching
pedagogies were discussed and demonstrated during week long residencies at both campuses. In 2005, Shea was
awarded the Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and most recently, he was inducted
into the Texas Tech University Teaching Academy.
David Shea is a Buffet-Crampon USA Performing Artist and is the 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.
|
