Masterclass: Jacqueline Leclair, oboe
October 17
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 209, Classroom
Audience: Alumni, Current Student, Faculty, Families, Neighbor or Friend, Prospective Student, Staff
Free admission to observe
This event will not be livestreamed
Oboist Jacqueline Leclair is Associate Professor of Oboe at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and a member of Ensemble Signal. She performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, with a strong focus on contemporary music.
Formerly on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and Bowling Green State University, she also directed BGSU’s MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music.
Leclair has taught and performed at festivals including the Lincoln Center Festival, June in Buffalo, Chamber Music Festival of Aguascalientes (Mexico), and East/West Festival (Russia). A specialist in new music, she has premiered numerous works and given masterclasses at institutions such as UCLA, Eastman, and UC San Diego.
Her recordings appear on Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon, Mode Records, and more, with her acclaimed premiere of Roger Reynolds’ Summer Island and Berio’s Sequenza VIIa standing out. She authored the Sequenza VIIa Supplementary Edition (Universal Edition, Vienna).
Praised by The New York Times for her “astonishing” performances and described by The New Yorker as “lively” and “wonderful,” Leclair earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stony Brook, studying under Richard Killmer and Ronald Roseman.
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