Montilla, Jorge
Biography
Born: 1970
Country: Venezuela
Studies:
Teachers: Valdemar Rodríguez, Mark Friedman, Howard Klug
Website: http://www.jorgemontilla.com/
Jorge Montilla is the first Latin American clarinetist to record under the distinguished British label “Clarinetclassics”.
Jorge Montilla is internationally considered one of the best clarinetists in Latin-America and one of the world’s best Eb Clarinet players.
Montilla is one of the many fine musicians produced by Venezuela’s “El Sistema”. El Sistema is a state foundation which oversees Venezuela's 125 youth orchestras.
Mr. Montilla is a graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Howard Klug. Other notable teachers include Luis Rossi, Eli Eban, James Campbel, Walter Boeykens, Antony Pay and Ricardo Morales.
Former Principal Clarinet of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Montilla has appeared as soloist with the most important Venezuelan orchestras, the Indiana University Chamber Orchestra, the Vale Veneto Festival Orchestra in Brazil, the Youth Orchestra of Peru, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston, the Nuevo Mundo Festival Orchestra in Aruba and the Longy School of Music Conservatory orchestra in Cambridge. He has given recitals in important halls of Venezuela as well as in the USA, Martinique, France, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, China, Peru, Spain, Mexico, Italy and Brazil together with leading important soloists and chamber music groups.
As a founding member and Artistic Director of the Caracas Clarinet Quartet, Mr. Montilla has concertized extensively throughout the world (South America, Europe, Asia and the USA), he has recorded two CDs (the second featuring Paquito D’Rivera) and his many pieces for the CCQ have made him one of the pre-eminent composers/arrangers for clarinet ensemble today.
Montilla’s pedagogical experience includes teaching at Arizona State University and he has been Chairman of the Clarinet Department at the Conservatory of Music Simón Bolívar and clarinet professor at the Latin American Academy of Venezuela. He has also given master-classes, clinics and workshops for important universities and music conservatories in Colombia, Chile, Barbados, Sta. Lucia, USA, Puerto Rico, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Peru, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
At the present, Jorge Montilla is Clarinet Professor at Longy School of Music of Bard College and Visiting Assistant Professor of Clarinet at University of Iowa School of Music.
He also represents Rossi Clarinets, D'Addario Reeds, Clarinetclassics, Royal Music Products and BG Ligatures. His compositions and arrangements are published by Woodwindiana Editions. [1]
Works for Percussion
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