Music, Theatre, Dance Faculty & Staff
Last Name
June
First Name
Gary
Email
junega@gvsu.edu
Title
Clarinet, Adjunct Instructor
Website
Office Address
1221 The Haas Center for Performing Arts
Office Phone
616-331-3484
About
Dr. Gary June is a clarinetist and educator based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He holds teaching positions at both Saginaw Valley State University, where he is the Adjunct Professor of Clarinet, and Grand Valley State University, where he teaches clarinet and general music courses. As an orchestral musician, he has held the position of 2nd/Eb clarinet with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and was an Associate Member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He has likewise regularly played with Sinfonia da Camera, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, and the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra. As a committed educator of primary and secondary-aged students, he spends summers teaching and playing at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the Illinois Summer Youth Music Pre-College Clarinet Camp.
Dr. June can be heard on the GVSU New Music Ensemble’s celebrated
recording of Terry Riley’s In C: Remixed and Sinfonia da Camera’s
to-be-released recording of Bohuslav Martin’s ballet, Stin. He holds
degrees from Grand Valley State University and the University of
Colorado-Boulder, and recently completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as
the clarinet studio Teaching Assistant and wrote his thesis on
contemporary Finnish clarinet music. His principal teachers include
Dr. Arthur Campbell, Daniel Silver, and J. David Harris.