By Taylor Barlow 

An Exploration of Communication through Five Solo Bass Clarinet Works.

Artist Lecture:

March 10th, 7pm

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Performances:

March 12th, 5pm

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March 12th, 7pm

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“Dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language” 

Communication is how we connect, interact, and share information with others. Language is a system of communication as well as music. Within languages, dialects form across geographical regions. Music is a way that people can communicate across language barriers but is also influenced by languages and their dialects. 

 Germany has been the home and/or birthplace of many significant composers throughout history such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms creating a rich historical music scene.  Many of these German composers moved elsewhere later in life spreading their works to new places. This dissemination of ideas, cultures, and the arts is important to understanding and interacting with people from around the world. This program of solo bass clarinet works, including a commission by German composer Anian Wiedner, will share German and Appalachian dialects through music, the effect technology has on communication, and highlight the similarities in structure between dialects and Jazz. 

Program:

Automaton (2015) by Pierce Gradone

if I were only halfway home (2018) by Ledah Finck

Von de Deutschen Sprache (2020) by Anian Wiedner

God Bless the Child (1961) by Billie Holiday, improvisation by Eric Dolphy

Chips Off the Ol’ Block (1999) by Eric Mandat

Biography

Clarinetist and Bass Clarinetist Taylor Barlow has received performance invitations to the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Atlanta and Montana, the Mostly Modern Festival in New York, the Tennessee Valley Music Festival in Alabama, the College Music Society Southern Conference, and the UNCG Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo. Taylor recently received a UNCG Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award to commission a new work for solo bass clarinet and explore the role of dialects in music. She has played in masterclasses for Sam Rothstein (Indianapolis Symphony), Alexander Fiterstein (Peabody Conservatory), Charles Neidich (The Juilliard School), and the Akropolis Reed Quintet. In 2020, she was the NC MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition winner and was a Semi-Finalist at the UNCSA Woodwind Day Competition in 2019. She is a member of the Splinter Tongue Clarinet Quartet based in Greensboro, NC and has performed with the Piedmont Wind Symphony. Each summer, Taylor joins the staff of the UNCG Summer Music Camp and is a member of the Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity, International Clarinetist Association, and College Music Society. She has taught clarinet and bass clarinet masterclasses and lessons across North Carolina, including at the inaugural UNCG Clarinet Day. Taylor is currently pursuing a dual degree in Clarinet Performance and Arts Administration at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she studies with Andy Hudson and Anthony Taylor. Let’s connect online: www.taylorclarinet.com