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Assistant Teaching Professor of Saxophone & Vocal Jazz

Music Fundamentals | Musicianship

Chamber Music

Concert Saxophonist

Wendell A. Clanton
Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Victoria School of Music

Director —Music Discoveries Concert Choir (2016)

Faculty Chamber Recital (2013)

Snizek/Clanton/Vogt/Sept. 2014

2003 to Present

Wendell A. Clanton

B.Mus. • Comprehensive, with distinction. University of Victoria, BC. (Dr. Greenwood).
B.Ed. • Secondary: choral & instrumental. University of Victoria, BC.
MM • Performance. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. (Dr. F.L. Hemke).

Titles & Positions

Concert Saxophonist
Music Performance Instructor
Director: Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Select Performances

Trio for Viola, Piano and Tenor Saxophone by P. Hindemith. CBC Radio.
Mutation Couleurs (C. Lauba) with alumni of the National Conservatory of Bordeaux Saxophone Ensemble under the baton of J.M. Londeix.
Variations On A Theme by Bartok (S. Gryk): with the Lafayette String Quartet.
La Creation du Monde by D. Milhaud: faculty chamber recital, University of Victoria.
Old Schoolhouse Theatre, Qualicum, BC. Vis à Vis Saxophone Quartet.
Threepenny Opera Music (K. Weill) conducted by Simon Capet.
Soloist with the Victoria Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Yariv Aloni.
Four Saxophones, Neoclassical, Jazz and Tango music for quartet, University of Victoria, May 2012.
J-B. Singelée, Op. 73 (Souvenir de la Savoie) and Op. 102 (Fantasia); A. Piazzolla, Café 1930. Summer Chamber Music Festival, Courtenay, BC. July, 2012.
Omar Khayyam in Belfast: Six Postcards by C. Butterfield (World Premiere). Tenor saxophone.
CYMC Summer Festival 2013 • Légende by André Caplet; Epitaphe de Jean Harlow by Charles Koechlin. Featuring members of the Vancouver and victoria Symphonies. Alto saxophone. Aug. 17/13.
Da Lontano at Trout Lake • Redshift Music Society: Saxophilia (Vancouver) and Vis à Vis Quartet. Soprano Saxophone.
UVIC Faculty Concert: Quiet City, original score (Brellochs ed./a.saxo., tpt., cl/bcl., pno.). October 19, 2013.
UVic Faculty Concert: Re-Birth of the Cool. Patrick Boyle. Baritone saxophone. Sept. 20, 2014.
Bolero • Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Signature Series. Tenor Saxophone. May 9 and 10, 2015.
Victoria Drum Fest. May 31, 2015. Bernard Purdie, Gerry Brown. The Midnights. Tenor Saxophone.
Government House. Music On The Lawn. The Midnights. July 16, 2015.
Bolero • Symphony Splash. August 2, 2015. Tenor Saxophone.
Caplet • Legende (Octet). January 9, 2016. Alto Saxophone.
Music Discoveries Choir • 2016 • Director, Concert Choir
Music Discoveries Choir • 2017 • Director, Concert Choir
Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff). March 4,5 & 6. 2017. Alto Saxophone.
Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Country Band March (Theatre Orchestra). April 2, 2017. Alto Saxophone.
UVic Faculty Chamber Recital, Concerto da Camera for Saxophone and Brass Quintet (Tull); Partita in G (D. Sweete). October 13, 2018. Alto and Tenor Saxophones.
University of Victoria Wind Symphony, Four Flew Over The Hornet's Nest. March 29, 2019. Alto Saxophone.

Redshift

Collaborations

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music: Der Lindberghflug (K. Weill); University of Victoria Radio Orchestra (2008). Conductor.

Founder & Host: Westcoast Classical Saxophone

Featuring professionals and students from UVIC, UBC, Vancouver Community College and Douglas College. SsSSAAATTTBBBass Ensemble and quartets.

Committee Work

Juror: British Columbia Arts Council

Adjudicator

2013 Powell River Performing Arts Festival
2018 Victoria Music Festival, Oak Bay High School (April 21st)
2018 Don Chrysler Concerto Competition (Sooke Philharmonic, April 21st)