2025 FCC Clarinet Evening Concert

APRIL 5, 2025 • 4:30 - 6:00 PM

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2025 FCC CLARINET EVENING CONCERT

You're invited to our 2025 FCC Clarinet Evening Concert, featuring Dr. Amy Guffey. Please join us to celebrate the music with family, friends, and community guests during this special evening concert!

MEET AMY GUFFEY

Dr. Amy Guffey serves as Teaching Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Kansas State University. She holds degrees from Shenandoah University, Ball State University, and Florida State University, where her doctoral treatise explored clarinet concerti composed between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2013.

As a clarinetist, Dr. Guffy's career has taken her to South Korea, Europe, and throughout the United States. Her principal teachers include Deborah Bish, Caroline Hartig, Frank Kowalsky, Kathleen Mulcahy, and Charlene Zimmerman. In addition to her studies with the aforementioned teachers, she has worked with esteemed clarinetists such as Mark Nuccio, Pascual Martinez-Forteza, Lawrie Bloom, Victoria Luperi, and Michael Lowenstern.

Dr. Guffey is the clarinetist of Nyx Duo, principal clarinetist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Smoky Valley, is on faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and serves as co-chair of the International Clarinet Association (ICA) Youth Involvement Committee. She is also a proud Backun Musical Services Artist. Additionally, Dr. Guffey co-hosts, Hidden Cues, a podcast that explores the mental, physical, and emotional intersections of motherhood in musical settings.

Prior to receiving her doctorate, she taught elementary instrumental music in the Washington, D.C. area, woodwinds at Yongsan International School (South Korea), blockflöte at Otfried-Preußler-Grundschule (Germany), and early childhood music at Cornerstone Center for the Arts (IN). While working in these various learning environments, she gained experience differentiating learning experiences for non-typical learners, ages pre-K through Grade12.

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Clarinet Evening Concert Ticket Information

• Tickets to attend this evening concert are free of charge. Click the orange "Reserve a Spot" on this page to reserve your seat.
• A $15.00 tax-deductible donation (per attendee) to the FCC Music Program is suggested. When clicking the link, a new window will open. Please select "Music Scholarships and Program Support" while completing the form. Thank you!

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2025 FCC CLARINET DAY • 8:30 AM

Calling all clarinetists! Join us for the first annual FCC Clarinet Day featuring Kansas State University clarinet professor and Backun artist Dr. Amy Guffey, earlier in the day. This event is open to clarinetists from sixth grade through adult. We recommend at least two years of experience on clarinet to play in the clarinet choirs.

Attendees will have the opportunity to play in clarinet choirs directed by FCC faculty Meredith Gersten and Mike Gersten, attend a jazz clarinet workshop with Anita Thomas, and more. The day will be capped off with a recital by Dr. Guffey.

2025 FCC Clarinet Day Registration Information

• Registration to attend 2025 Clarinet Day is free of charge.
• Learn more and register a participant for 2025 FCC Clarinet Day.

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CONTACT US

If you have any questions or wish to learn more about the music program at Frederick Community College, please contact us. We look forward to meeting you!

Dr. Mike Gersten, Program Manager
Frederick Community College Music Program
[email protected] • 301-846-2566 • frederick.edu/music

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