DENISE GAINEY

Biography

Denise A. Gainey is Associate Professor of Clarinet and Instrumental Music Education and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and performs regularly with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. She is a Leblanc Artist/ Clinician, an Educational Recording Artist for Carl Fischer Music, and serves as the State Representative of Alabama for the International Clarinet Association. Gainey is an active clinician and performer throughout the country. She was a guest artist at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium in 2002, and has been a soloist with several orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the United States, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Denmark, and was a member of the McCracken Woodwind Quintet from 1998-2001. Gainey has compiled and edited a collection of clarinet solos, Solos for Clarinet, published by Carl Fischer in 2001, and continues research on the teaching methods of master teacher Kalmen Opperman. She received the Bachelor of Music Education from The Florida State University, the Master of Music in Clarinet Performance from The University of North Texas, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Clarinet from The University of Kentucky. Gainey's major teachers include Kalmen Opperman, James Gillespie, Frank Kowalsky, and Fred Ormand.

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