Oboist, Jacqueline Leclair, resides in New York City and Bowling Green Ohio and is a member of Alarm Will Sound and Sequitur. She can frequently be heard performing with other New York City ensembles such as Sospeso, Ensemble 21 and Carnegie Hall's Zankel Band. Ms. Leclair is the full time Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University in Ohio as well as a faculty member of Manhattan School of Music's graduate Contemporary Performance Program in New York City. Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIIa Supplementary Edition by Jacqueline Leclair is published by Universal Edition, Vienna, and Ms. Leclair's recording of the piece is on Mode Record's 4-cd collection of all the Berio Sequenzas and other solo works.
Ms. Leclair has served as faculty and performer at music festivals including the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College (VT), June In Buffalo (NY), Chamber Music Festival of Aguascalientes (Mexico), East/West Festival (Kazan, Tatarstan), Sebago Music Festival (ME) among others.
In addition to performing a variety of classical and other musics, Ms. Leclair specializes in the study and performance of new music. She has premiered many works, and she regularly presents classes in contemporary music and its techniques at schools such as UCLA, the Eastman School of Music, Brigham Young University, The North Carolina School for the Arts and University of California San Diego.
Ms. Leclair has recorded for labels such as Nonesuch, CRI, Koch, Neuma, and CBS Masterworks, receiving critical acclaim in particular for her premiere recording of Roger Reynolds' “Summer Island”.
Ms. Leclair studied with Richard Killmer and Ronald Roseman at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and SUNY Stony Brook, earning a Bachelor of Music, Performer's Certificate, Masters Degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts.
The New York Times has reviewed Ms. Leclair's performances as “astonishing”; and as having “electrifying agility”, and the New Yorker has referred to Ms. Leclair as “lively” and “wonderful”.
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