Alan Kay
One of the most versatile and respected musicians of his generation, clarinetist Alan R. Kay joined the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2002. He was a winner of the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a 2002 Presidential Scholars Teachers Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon, featured in the film, Debut. A founding member of Windscape, Mr. Kay appears with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with the Mendelssohn, Mirò, and Shanghai string quartets. He has been a member of the Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1996.
Alan Kay appears annually at the Bravo!, Vail Valley, and Yellow Barn music festivals. His 2005 performance of Weber at the Windham Festival was heard nationally on NPR. He is the artistic director of the New York Chamber Ensemble, and his series at the ensemble’s Cape May Festival draws larger audiences each year. Mr. Kay studied orchestral conducting at the Juilliard School and has led orchestras at Purchase College, Juilliard, and in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Asuza, California, as well as in New York City. He taught at the Summer Academy in Leipzig, Germany, in 2004, and currently teaches at the Hartt and Juilliard schools, as well as at MSM. He has recorded wind music CDs not only with Windscape but also with Hexagon and the Sylvan Winds and appears on many other chamber music, orchestral, and new music CDs. He lives with his two sons, Noah and Jonathan, in Leonia, New Jersey.
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