Faculty/Staff Information
Michael Webster

MICHAEL WEBSTER
Professor of Clarinet

B. Mus. with distinction (1966)
Performer's Certificate (1966), M. Mus. (1967)
D.M.A. (1975) Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

1115 Alice Pratt Brown Hall
713-348-3602
mwebster@rice.edu

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mwebster/

Discography
American Contemporary Music for Clarinet and Piano
(CRI 374).
Works of Donald Martino, Verne Reynolds, Louise Talma, and Michael Webster

Tour de France (Crystal Records 356).
Works for flute, clarinet, and piano performed by the Webster Trio (L. Buyse, flute; Katherine Collier, piano)
featuring transcriptions by Michael Webster of music by Bizet, Debussy, and Fauré

Sonata Cho-Cho San (Nami/Live Notes WWCC-7302).
Works for flute, clarinet, and piano performed by the Webster Trio Japan (Leone Buyse, flute; Chizuko Sawa, piano)
featuring arrangements by M. Webster of operatic music by Puccini, Mozart, and Bizet

Howard Boatwright (CRI 775).
Sonata for clarinet and piano (Barry Snyder, piano)

Donald Martino (CRI 693).
A Set for Clarinet

As principal clarinetist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
(David Zinman, conductor):

  • Amram: Triple Concerto for Woodwind, Brass, Jazz Quintets and Orchestra; Elegy (RCA Red Seal)
  • Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus (Vox Turnabout); Romances (Elektra/Nonesuch)
  • Dvorak: American Suite; Legends; Suite in A, Op. 98b (Elektra Nonesuch)
  • Gutché: Icarus (Vox Turnabout)
  • Janacek: Lachian Dances (Elektra/Nonesuch)
  • Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony, Hebrides Overture (Vox Cum Laude)
  • Spohr: Violin Concerto #8 (Elektra/Nonesuch)

As principal clarinetist of the Rochester Pops
(Erich Kunzel, conductor; Pro Arte):

  • Ties and Tails (Ellington and Gershwin); Syncopated Clock (Anderson); An Enchanted Evening; Uptown/Downtown; The Best of Broadway

As principal basset horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
(Seiji Ozawa, conductor):

  • Strauss: Elektra (Philips)

With Jan DeGaetani and the Eastman Chamber Ensemble
(David Effron, conductor; Bridge):

  • Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7
  • Mahler: Five Rückert Songs

With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
(Gunther Schuller, conductor; Arabesque):

  • Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major, KV 361, "Gran Partita"
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