Dr. David Etheridge - University of Oklahoma

David Etheridge, David Ross Boyd Distinguished Professor of clarinet, is chair of the Woodwind Area at the University of Oklahoma.  He teaches clarinet and is in demand as a recitalist and clinician across the United States and Europe. He is clarinetist of the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet and a former member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic having performed with them as both Principal Clarinetist and as a member of the clarinet section.   He is founder of the internationally acclaimed University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium (now in its thirty-fourth year) and also founded the OU Clarinet Choir.  He has appeared at the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests in 1982, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,  and 2003 and is currently on the faculty of the Hungarian International Clarinet Camp in Budapest, Hungary.  Recently his clarinet choir appeared at ClarinetFest 2006 in Atlanta and he also conducted the Conference Clarinet Choir for this event.   He has also authored numerous articles, book entitled Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetists' View and a series of instructional books entitled A Practical Approach to the Clarinet. Etheridge has been awarded the Amoco Good Teaching Award, the Regents Award for Superior Teaching and in 2003 was appointed as a David Ross Boyd Professor.  He holds the BME and MM from the University of Colorado and the DMA from the Eastman School of Music.