Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance

Register for Clarinet Day 2027

Clarinet Players if you want to ....

• make practice work for you
• solve technical problems
• play in solo and ensemble without being nervous
• get into a top university program
• play a successful ensemble audition

Come to the GVSU clarinet day and find out how!!

The exclusively undergraduate clarinet program at GVSU has grown into one of the most successful undergraduate programs in the country. Our clarinet students are winning national and international competitions and we have spectacular success combining high level clarinet study with broadly diverse programs.

We invite you to discover the secret to this success!

Ensemble Directors: Send your clarinet students to us for the day! We will send them back motivated and ready to play! Come yourself to enjoy sessions that will help make your clarinet section sound better.

12:30-1:00pm - Registration - LAT Lobby

1:00-1:30pm - Warmup/Fundamentals - SVS Recital Hall

1:30-2:00pm - Clarinet Choir Reading - SVS Recital Hall

2:00-3:00pm - Masterclass with GVSU students, Guest Artist - Dr. Jiyeon Choi - SVS Recital Hall

3:00-4:00pm - Masterclass with High School students, Dr. June - SVS Recital Hall

4:00-4:30pm - Break

4:30-6:00pm - Potpourri Recital - SVS Recital Hall

This day is completely free!

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Register online at the link below.

Dr. Gary June is a clarinetist and educator based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is Visiting Professor of Clarinet at Grand Valley State University. As an orchestral musician, he is Principal Clarinet of the Holland Symphony Orchestra and the 2nd/E-flat clarinetist of the Flint and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestras. He likewise regularly plays as guest principal and section clarinet with orchestras such as the Grand Rapids Symphony, the West Michigan Symphony, and Sinfonia da Camera. As a committed educator of primary and secondary-aged students, he spends summers teaching and playing at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.

Gary June is also an active chamber musician and soloist. As a member of the Amosa Duo, he has given recitals at universities throughout the United States and at the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago, IL. The Amosa Duo has also toured many of Taiwan's most prestigious concert halls, including the National Recital Hall in Taipei. As a member of Grand Valley's faculty wind quintet, Grand Valley Winds, he performed in the Czech Republic as part of the featured ensemble in the Janáček Music Festival. Other recent engagements include performing Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie with the Holland Symphony Orchestra, Copland's Appalachian Spring at the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival, faculty recitals at GVSU, SVSU, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and serving as the guest artist at Kansas State University's annual Clarinet Day.

Dr. June has given master classes at universities such as the Janáček Conservatory and Ostrava University in the Czech Republic, the National Tainan University in Taiwan, Kansas State University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Austin Peay State University. He holds degrees from Grand Valley State University and the University of Colorado-Boulder and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he wrote his thesis on contemporary Finnish clarinet music. His principal teachers include Dr. Arthur Campbell, Daniel Silver, and J. David Harris. Dr. June is a Vandoren Artist-Clinician and performs on Vandoren mouthpieces and reeds.