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Instrument: Woodwinds
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Mark Sowlakis
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Mark G. Sowlakis was introduced to music at the age of 4 through piano lessons; by age 11 he was playing the alto saxophone. A student of William Trimble throughout high school, he was a founding member of The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra and recorded with steel guitar wizard Bob Brozman. Shortly after his high school graduation he began journeying to the Los Angeles area to study clarinet, flute and saxophone with reknowned teacher Victor Morosco. At this same time he was introduced to master tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh, who became not only a musical influence but an inspirational friend and mentor who influenced his ideas about jazz improvisation and much later his approach to teaching. His musical studies then took him to San Francisco State University where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance, studying there with Don Carroll of the San Francisco Symphony
Sinfonetta
Label: Pacific Winds
Released: 2006
Track listing: Simple Beauty; Seaside Sanctuary; Second Prelude; Alister's Theme;
Call; Sinfonetta; Gymnopedie; Further Meditations on Simple Beauty; Time
Remembered; Prelude for Suite I for Unaccompanied Cello.
Mark Sowlakis: Sinfonetta
by Ollie Bivens
Bay Area-resident clarinetist, composer and arranger Mark Sowlakis' Sinfonetta is a rich amalgam of two genres that have not always found common ground in the past--jazz and classical music. Because Sowlakis is so thoroughly trained in both fields, the project comes off almost without a hitch. He plays with some of New York's best, if underrecorded ...
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