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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 currently president of the Ottawa New Music Creators (ONMC): a collective of professional composers and performers from the National Capital Region dedicated to bringing new music to our community. ONMC has collaborated with organizations such as the Canadian University Music Society , the Society for American Music, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society and the Carleton University Art Gallery as well as artists such as the Tim Brady Ensemble, mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah and the Gryphon Trio. This season ONMC is launching the Ottawa branch of Classical Revolution at Café Paradiso

Rebecca's current projects reflect her passion for playing contemporary music and working with composers. She is collaborating with Dr. Mara Helmuth on a work for clarinet and sensors to be preformed on the Performance & Time Art series in Cincinnati. Her playing is featured on Winds of Heaven: a documentary about Emily Carr directed by Michael Ostroff with music by Edmund Eagan. She has recorded a disc of works by Canadian women in Glenn Gould Studio with pianist Elaine Keillor and violinist Ralitsa Tcholakova. Rebecca's recording of TR Beery's "Seven Breaths" for speaking clarinetist is 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. She has performed and lectured about these pieces at CCM, the University of Western Ontario, Carleton University, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival and the Canadian University Music Society Conference. The Avondale Press has expressed interest in publishing this collection.

Also an enthusiastic teacher, Rebecca is adjunct faculty at Carleton University and V-I Music. From 2006-10 she was on faculty at the Preparatory Department at CCM as clarinet and theory instructor. She taught woodwind ensembles and improvisation for the Accent Chamber Music Program and led 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 Dr. David Schneider which she premiered with CYWE in March 2010.

Rebecca is in demand as a chamber musician, soloist and ensemble player. She has been invited to performed at Murray Schafer's Patria Epilogue And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon (2010), MusicX (2006, 2008, 2010) the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (2007-2010), the Ottawa Jazz Festival (2009), the Bang on a Can Summer Festival (2008), and the Midwest Composer's Symposium (2008-10). 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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