Dr. David Etheridge
Dr. David Etheridge was a David Ross Boyd Professor of Music at the University of Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years. Prior to his tenure at OU, he served as clarinet instructor for eight years at the State University of Arts and Science at Potsdam, New York. Etheridge earned the doctor of musical arts degree in clarinet performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied in the class of Stanley Hasty. Other principal teachers included Val P. Henrich and Jerry Neil Smith. Etheridge also studied with Rudolph Jettel (Vienna Conservatory), Ulysses Delecluse (Paris Conservatory), Jack Brymer (London) and Michael Incenzo (Rome Conservatory).
Etheridge was an active soloist and recitalist. He appeared regularly with the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet, which performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, the Eisenstadt Festival in Austria and twice before conferences of the National Association for Music Education. He appeared as a recitalist and conductor at the International Clarinet Conferences in Denver (1981 and 1983), Seattle (1986), Lubbock (1997), Columbus (1998), Osten, Belgium (1999) and most recently as a lecturer in Stockholm, Sweden (2002). Etheridge performed at the Montevallo Clarinet Symposium in the Montana/Idaho Clarinet Festival, the Mid-West Clarinet Symposium and the Brazil Clarinet Symposium III, which was held in Salvador, Brazil. He h served as a clinician for state music conventions for the California Band Directors Association and the Colorado, Oklahoma and New York music educators' associations and adjudicated in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Missouri. For 11 years a member of the artist faculty of the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, Etheridge was a featured lecturer at the 1997 International Clarinet Society conference at Lubbock, Texas, and performed with Jozsef Balogh at the society's 1988 conference at Columbus, Ohio. In 1998, 1999 and 2001 he served on the artist faculty of the Hungarian International Clarinet Camp.
Etheridge is the author of a number of articles that have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Woodwind World and the Journal for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. He also wrote a book, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View, published by Pelican Books. Etheridge was founder of the internationally acclaimed OU Clarinet Symposium, now in its 36th year. He served two terms as vice president of the International Clarinet Society, and his honors include the Amoco Foundation Award for Good Teaching, received in 1987, and the OU Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, awarded in 1992.
BME—University of Colorado
MM—University of Colorado
DMA—Eastman School of Music
Etheridge was an active soloist and recitalist. He appeared regularly with the Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet, which performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, the Eisenstadt Festival in Austria and twice before conferences of the National Association for Music Education. He appeared as a recitalist and conductor at the International Clarinet Conferences in Denver (1981 and 1983), Seattle (1986), Lubbock (1997), Columbus (1998), Osten, Belgium (1999) and most recently as a lecturer in Stockholm, Sweden (2002). Etheridge performed at the Montevallo Clarinet Symposium in the Montana/Idaho Clarinet Festival, the Mid-West Clarinet Symposium and the Brazil Clarinet Symposium III, which was held in Salvador, Brazil. He h served as a clinician for state music conventions for the California Band Directors Association and the Colorado, Oklahoma and New York music educators' associations and adjudicated in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Missouri. For 11 years a member of the artist faculty of the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, Etheridge was a featured lecturer at the 1997 International Clarinet Society conference at Lubbock, Texas, and performed with Jozsef Balogh at the society's 1988 conference at Columbus, Ohio. In 1998, 1999 and 2001 he served on the artist faculty of the Hungarian International Clarinet Camp.
Etheridge is the author of a number of articles that have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Woodwind World and the Journal for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. He also wrote a book, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View, published by Pelican Books. Etheridge was founder of the internationally acclaimed OU Clarinet Symposium, now in its 36th year. He served two terms as vice president of the International Clarinet Society, and his honors include the Amoco Foundation Award for Good Teaching, received in 1987, and the OU Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, awarded in 1992.
BME—University of Colorado
MM—University of Colorado
DMA—Eastman School of Music
