Ed Matthew, clarinetist
Gretchen's Muse
Upcoming: Gretchen's Muse
Beethoven's Septet
on period instruments
Monday, May 27, 8:00 pm
WMP Concert Hall
31 East 28th Street
New York City
Ed Matthew has served as guest-principal clarinetist with Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque, the American Classical Orchestra, and Musica Angelica. He has performed with Apollo's Fire, Opera Lafayette, Sinfonia New York, Boston Baroque, Handel & Haydn Society, Concert Royal, Arcadia Players, and other period orchestras. He is a member of the Grenser Trio, Pit Stop Players, and The New York Clarinet Quartet.

On modern clarinet and woodwinds, he is in the orchestra of the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera. He was a member of the Broadway orchestras for the revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man and for the Lincoln Center premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade, as well as the off-Broadway Fermat's Last Tango by Joshua Rosenblum.  His recording of Passages, a clarinet concerto by Gary William Friedman, is on the 150Music label. He can also be heard on the RCA Victor, Original Cast Records, PS Classics, and Naxos labels. He was a founding member of Arizona's award-winning wind quintet Quintessence.

When performing with period ensembles, he plays on reproductions of late 18th-century Grenser Family clarinets by Joel Robinson (boxwood) and Steve Silverstein (maple), and on a Rudolf Tutz basset horn.

By day he is a member of the Promotion Department at G. Schirmer.

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Pit Stop Players

Gretchen's Muse

photo by Jim Thoma