Richard W. Fletcher, Clarinet

Richard Fletcher is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.  He holds a doctorate in Clarinet Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa where he was a student of distinguished music educator Himie Voxman, a Masters of Music from the University of Southern Illinois, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Arkansas Tech University.  He is an active soloist and chamber musician, performing as principal clarinetist in the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, with the Wisconsin Wind Quintet, Clearly Three Trio and Sonora Reed Trio.  He has performed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Elvehjem/Chazen Museum of Art, the Schubert Club's Courtroom Concerts Series, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, on Wisconsin radio and television, and performed on international conferences of the International Clarinet Association, the International Double Reed Society, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and the International Wood Flute conference.  He also performed in concert for the Edinburgh, Scotland Society of Musicians and in England and Scotland as a member of the Wisconsin-In-Scotland Chamber Players.  As a Visiting Fellow at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music he had the privilege of studying the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) with virtuoso Goro Yamaguchi.  Prior to University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Dr. Fletcher was a faculty member at Arkansas Tech University.  He has served on the faculties of the International Music Camp, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and Arkansas Tech University Music Camp.  He can be heard on Clearly Three:  Trios from the Twentieth Century (Tonheim), a CD of trios for clarinet, bassoon and piano.