Ricardo Morales Plays Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

Wed, 03/16/2016 - 3:04pm
Written by ArtistWorks

In this fantastic performance with the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Ricardo Morales plays a beautiful version of the 1st movement from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. This is the final purely instrumental piece Mozart wrote shortly before his death in 1791.

Ricardo was recently featured on WOSU Public Media talking about playing clarinet with the Philadelphia Orchestra. They discused this piece as well as other topics including the different options for reeds, the evolution of the modern day clarinet, and more. Click here to check it out! 

The Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Gruber's Charivari

Wed, 10/28/2015 - 11:08am
Written by ArtistWorks

Here’s a nice video of the Philadelphia Orchestra playing part of HK Gruber’s Charivari, featuring ArtistWorks Classical Faculty members David Bilger on trumpet and Ricardo Morales on clarinet. You can watch the Philadelphia Orchestra perform this piece live January 13-16, 2016. For more information visit philorch.org

2014 Classical Scholarship Competition Winners

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 11:53am
Written by ArtistWorks

classical music scholarship competition

We are excited to announce the winners of The ArtistWorks Classical Scholarship Competition!

Designed for aspiring classical musicians, each applicant submitted a video of themselves playing a piece from the designated repertoire for our classical music teachers to review. After the reviewing process, the judges each chose one student whose performance they felt merited the scholarship.

For Trumpet, David Bilger has selected Ryan C. For Clarinet, Ricardo Morales has selected Taylor M. For Flute, Jeffrey Khaner has selected Arnold P. For Violin, Nathan Cole has selected Paul H. Congratulations and job well done! 

Each winner will receive a $ 1,000 cash prize to help them further their classical music education. Thanks go out to everyone who participated in this competition to help make it a success!

 

Clarinet Lesson: Carl Baermann Etude #18

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 11:21am
Written by AW

Practicing etudes are a great way to help you improve for your instrument because they are designed to reinforce certain techniques. In this sample clarinet lesson from the Online Classical School with Ricardo Morales, we go through and analyze the Baermann Etude #18. This clarinet etude is nice because it is not only a great exercise for your fingers, but it also sounds beautiful, which makes practicing it all the more enjoyable.