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Jeff Anderle Clarinetist/bass clarinetist Jeff Anderle is currently enjoying an extremely varied musical life. An exponent of contemporary classical music, Jeff is currently the clarinetist of New York-based ensembles Redshift and the East Coast Composer’s Ensemble, and was formerly the clarinetist and Associate Artistic Director of The Definiens Project in Los Angeles. He attended the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival in 2007 and was also the clarinetist in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble in 2006. Jeff will also be joining the Del Sol String Quartet this season for several performances of Osvoldo Golijov's work The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Past highlights include the U.S. Premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Spleen, for solo bass clarinet, which a reviewer described as "more than impressive: it was awe-inspiring... Better control and command of the instrument is hard to imagine." Jeff is also passionate about music that can't be explained in one word. He is a member of Edmund Welles, the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, which combines the precision of classical music with the power of heavy metal into a genre that can only be described as “heavy chamber music.” He is also half of the bass clarinet duo Sqwonk, with Jon Russell, which infuses aspects of folk and popular music into its own distinct rhythmic, groove-based style. Sqwonk is creating an opus for two bass clarinets by incorporating clever arrangements and commissioning composers who match its aesthetic. Their eponymous CD will be released in September. Jeff is also a co-director of the Switchboard Music Festival, an 8-hour marathon dedicated to presenting composers, ensembles and bands that fuse different genres and styles of music, which will have its inaugural performance in March of 2008. Jeff holds a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied clarinet with Luis Baez and bass clarinet with Ben Freimuth. Previously, he graduated summa cum laude from UCLA, where he was a student of Gary Gray. When not making music, Jeff is a Financial Associate for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Reiki practitioner. O1C Performances: Edmund Welles Bass Clarinet Quartet Sqwonk & Crafty Apples Coming Together Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet REDSHIFT Sqwonk & Real Vocal String Quartet Music: The Next Generation All Hallows Reed Sqwonk & ZOFO Left Coast Chamber Ensemble REDSHIFT Sqwonk & The Living Earth Show |
