Free concert featuring the many colors of the clarinet ensemble.  The program will include classical “colors” to contemporary “colors”.  From Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk. Cultural “colors’ will include a Habanera and a Peruvian melody full of colors and harmonic hues.  All ages will enjoy the Young Person’s Guide to the Clarinet Choir, Take on Me and Autumn Leaves.  Jazz “colors” are highlighted by a piece written specifically for the clarinet choir.

The Silverwood Clarinet Choir is pleased to be conducted by Allan Kolsky, the Principal Clarinet of Symphoria. Mr. Kolsky held positions with the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Utah Symphony before joining the Syracuse Symphony as Principal Clarinet in 2002.

The eleven-member Silverwood Clarinet Choir performs on clarinets encompassing all the voices of a true choir. Instruments will include Eb sopranino clarinets, Bb clarinets, alto clarinet, basset horn, bass clarinets and contrabass clarinet. The Silverwood Clarinet Choir was founded in 2006. The creative group performs original compositions as well as arrangements of well-known pieces–music in all styles and from around the world. The ensemble plays music that is both entertaining and challenging and performs throughout the Central New York area.