Marlen won the Presser Musical Award and the Kate Neal Kinley Musical Fellowship, and was awarded the Fellowship for the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Illinois. A member of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra 2005, she has taught chamber music and oboe at the AMEROPA international festival in Prague and the Illinois Summer Youth Music Festival. She came to Grand Valley in 2005.
Campbell has won numerous international and national competitions including the 2001 International Web Concert Hall Competition, the prestigious U.S. Department of State Artist Abroad Award (2000), the 1996 International Clarinet Competition sponsored by the ICA Recording Project, and the top clarinet award in the 1988 National Music Festival of Canada.
John Clapp joined the Grand Valley State University music faculty in the fall of 2003. Mr. Clapp has been contrabassoonist of the Grand Rapids Symphony since September 2000. Prior to his appointment in Grand Rapids, he held the position of contrabassoon with the Charlotte Symphony in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The wind trio's music program includes works by Fran¿aix, Villa-Lobos, and Schickele. For more information call the GVSU Department of Music at (616) 331-3484.
