Al Rice - Clarinet
Albert (Al) R. Rice studied clarinet with Kalman Bloch, Mitchell Lurie, and Rosario Mazzeo and completed an M.A. in Music performance and a Ph.D. in musicology at the Claremont Graduate School. In addition to playing with many southern California orchestras, from 1977 to 1979 he played with the Jugentstil Trio (clarinet, violin, and piano) and from 1980 to 1995 played and recorded several new works with the Almont Ensemble whose instrumentation included violin, viola, cello, piano, and clarinet. A passion for early clarinets and music resulted in the publication of five books from 1992 to 2020, four on the history of the clarinet and one on clarinet solo literature, all published by Oxford University Press, and many published articles on aspects of clarinet history. Another book is a catalogue of an instrument collection entitled, ‘Four Centuries of Musical Instruments: the Marlowe A. Sigal Collection’ published by Schiffer in 2015.
Albert (Al) R. Rice studied clarinet with Kalman Bloch, Mitchell Lurie, and Rosario Mazzeo and completed an M.A. in Music performance and a Ph.D. in musicology at the Claremont Graduate School. In addition to playing with many southern California orchestras, from 1977 to 1979 he played with the Jugentstil Trio (clarinet, violin, and piano) and from 1980 to 1995 played and recorded several new works with the Almont Ensemble whose instrumentation included violin, viola, cello, piano, and clarinet. A passion for early clarinets and music resulted in the publication of five books from 1992 to 2020, four on the history of the clarinet and one on clarinet solo literature, all published by Oxford University Press, and many published articles on aspects of clarinet history. Another book is a catalogue of an instrument collection entitled, ‘Four Centuries of Musical Instruments: the Marlowe A. Sigal Collection’ published by Schiffer in 2015.