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Gene CollerdQuick Contacts email the dept. of performing arts email the music dept. email the theater dept.
UIC Department of Performing Arts |
Conductor-Concert Band, Clarinet, Conducting  Mr. Collerd holds B.A. and M.M. degrees from Yale University where he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller. He has also studied with clarinetists Anthony Gigliotti, Robert Marcellus, and Richard Stoltzman. He is a Professor of Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs the String Ensemble and teaches clarinet. He joined the Elgin Symphony as principal clarinetist in 1990 and also plays principal clarinet with Chicago Opera Theater, assistant principal clarinet with the Grant Park Symphony, and is a member of the Chicago Wind Quintet, and the chamber orchestra Ars Viva. In 1992 he performed as a soloist with the Elgin Symphony in Weber's Concerto No. 1. That same year he won the woodwind prize in the Southeast Iowa Symphony Concerto Competition and made several solo appearances with that orchestra. |
