Musical Holiday Matinee
The El Paso Clarinet Consort will perform at the Main Library, 501 N. Oregon, on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 2:00 PM. The group will be performing music from Italy, Austria, Belgium, France, Argentina and Israel. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information call 543-5468.
Members of the Consort are professional free-lance musicians and music educators from the El Paso area, who have formed this ensemble to promote the variety of literature and sounds which the Clarinet Choir can produce.
Not only do the musical selections from this program come from around the world, but the members of the El Paso Clarinet Consort, while all based today in the El Paso/Juarez area, also originally come from various countries in the world, including Germany, Puerto Rico, Bulgaria, Mexico, and of course the USA.
A wide variety of clarinet instrument sizes are used in their program, from the tiny E-flat clarinet to the deep sounds of the contra-bass clarinet.
Members of the ensemble have performed with the Ft. Worth Symphony, the Juarez and El Paso Symphony Orchestras, the El Paso Ballet, as well as with various local groups.
The founder of the group, Bettina Ross, has performed with orchestras and chamber music groups in Germany as well as working in musical productions such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera, etc. The idea of forming the El Paso Clarinet Consort came to Bettina from her experience in playing a professional clarinet quartet in Germany and participating and conducting several ensembles of this sort while in Europe.
