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Performer, educator, scholar and entrepreneur, Rebecca Danard is a doctoral candidate in clarinet performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She is the founding director of
Musica Nova Ottawa: a collective of professional composers and performers from the National Capital Region dedicated to bringing new music to our community. The inaugural concert occurred at the Canadian University Music Society 2009 Conference at Carleton University with the Gryphon Trio and mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah. The 2009-10 season features the Tim Brady Ensemble of Montreal, a tribute to R. Murray Schafer presented in conjunction with the
Society for American Music, and a programme of visually inspired works performed at the Carleton University Art Gallery in association with the Ottawa Chamber Music Society.
Rebecca's current projects reflect her passion for playing contemporary music and working with composers. She is recording a disc of works by Canadian women in Glenn Gould Studio with pianist
Elaine Keillor and violinist Ralitsa Tcholakova to be released on the Carleton University label. Rebecca's recording of TR Beery's “Seven Breaths” for speaking clarinetist will be included on the 2010
Indie Music Cancer Drive: Songs for the Cure. As part of her
doctoral research, she has commissioned twelve pedagogical pieces featuring extended techniques for the clarinet from composers across Canada. In 2008 she premiered these pieces at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival and at the 12:30 Friday concert series at the
University of Western Ontario. She also presented a lecture recital about this project at the Canadian University Music Society Conference in May 2009. The
Avondale Press has expressed interest in publishing this collection.
Also an enthusiastic teacher, Rebecca is on faculty at the Preparatory Department at CCM as clarinet and theory instructor. She coaches woodwind ensembles for the Accent Chamber Music Program and leads sectionals for the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble (CYWE). To promote engagement between a local composer and young musicians, Rebecca has commissioned a concerto from the CCM faculty composer
David Schneider which she will premiere with CYWE in March 2010.
Rebecca is in demand as a chamber musician, soloist and ensemble player. She has been invited to performed at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (2007-2009), the Ottawa Jazz Festival (2009), the Bang on a Can Summer Festival (2008), MusicX (2006, 2008) and the Midwest Composer's Symposium (2008, 2009). She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras at the University of Western Ontario and Wayne State University and was featured on the CBC Radio programme Artscape. She has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre and has participated in the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. Rebecca has performed with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the Dearborn Symphony, the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra.
A native of Ottawa Canada, Rebecca obtained undergraduate degrees in Clarinet Performance and Ecology & Evolution (Gold Medalist) from the University of Western Ontario (London, ON), as well as Graduate Certificate in Orchestra Studies from Wayne State University (Detroit MI). In 2004 she moved to Cincinnati to pursue a Master's degree in clarinet performance at CCM and remained there for her doctoral studies. Rebecca currently lives and makes music in both Cincinnati and Ottawa.
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