Jazz: America’s Voice, HHSO Subscription Series Concert

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra

John Morris Russell, conductor*

Oran Etkin, Clarinet

Oran Etkin Quartet

COPLAND Clarinet Concerto

ETKIN What’s New Suite: Re-Imagining Benny Goodman

GRANT STILL Symphony No.1 (Afro-American Symphony)

Oran Etkin has been described as “ebullient” by the New York Times and “composer of eminent individuality” by Yusef Lateef. He was voted #1 Rising Star Clarinetist in DownBeat Magazine’s 2016 Critics Poll and has been invited several times to Harvard University as a guest lecturer. Etkin’s music can be heard on concert stages worldwide and numerous recordings including a Grammy Award Winning anti-bullying compilation album. Etkin’s duo concert with Sullivan Fortner in Paris was chosen as one of the Top 6 Musical Highlights of the year by Libération, which described it as “a concert of weightlessness, class, spark, inspiration and sharing. Magic uninterrupted for two hours. The crowd… went wild. For such is the music of Etkin: sensitive to the exchange with the audience.”

*Maestro Russell will deliver a pre-concert chat beginning one-hour before the concert.