Clarinetist Andrew Lamy is the second, Eb, and acting Assistant Principal Clarinetist of the NJSO and is a member of the critically acclaimed Halcyon Trio. He began his solo career in 1990 with a memorable performance of the Copland Concerto with the Debut Orchestra at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. "Andrew’s rock solid technique in the Copland Concerto allowed one to forget his mechanics and focus on the balletic gracefulness of his phrasing, the give and take with which he moved his music through the orchestral texture." Los Angeles Times, 10/09/90 -Timothy Mangan Aaron Copland called Andrew a wonderful young clarinetist in a 1984 letter reviewing Mr. Lamy’s recording of Gary Pratt’s score for the film Pasture Songs.
Andy’s teachers include Mitchell Lurie, Rocco DiStasio, John Coulehan, Mary Gale, David Howard, and David Breeden. While attending the USC School of Music, Mr. Lamy received appointments to the principal clarinet chairs of the Debut Orchestra, L.A. Philharmonic Institute, National Orchestral Institute, the Orchestra of the State of Mexico, and a one-year Assistant Principal residency in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia under Yuri Temirkanov. In 1991, Lalo Schifrin appointed Mr. Lamy to the clarinet section of the Glendale Orchestra. Soon after, Andrew received invitations to perform with principals of the L.A. Philharmonic on the Gindi Auditorium Chamber Series, as well as the Charleston Quartet, the Los Angeles Wind Quintet, the Mad Coyote Ensemble, Hollywood film soundtracks, and numerous concerto performances of Copland, Weber, and Debussy with orchestras throughout Southern California.
In 1993, Mr. Lamy was appointed to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and in 1995 Andrew became a top prize-winner in the Boosey & Hawkes North American Clarinet Competition. Since then, Mr. Lamy has performed more than a thousand orchestral and chamber concerts in such prestigious venues as the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher, Merkin, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He can be heard on seven Delos NJSO CD recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning Dvorák Requiem and as principal clarinetist on Gliere’s Red Poppy Suite.
As a New York area artist, Mr. Lamy has performed more than fifty times with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, including ten Texaco Metropolitan Opera International radio broadcasts. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony, American Ballet Theater, the Concordia Orchestra, the Royal Opera of London, the JCC Metrowest Series, Cape May Music Festival, and has been the featured soloist with the Haddonfield Symphony and the Debut Orchestra.
Very active in music education, Andrew is on the faculty of the New Jersey Conservatory, Drew Summer Music, Rutgers University, William Paterson University, and has been a guest Master Clinician at the Juilliard School. Andrew is widely recognized as one of the nations leading clarinet teachers—His students have been heard repeatedly on NPR’s From the Top, have won numerous solo competitions, and been accepted to the Juilliard School, the YMF Debut Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, USC, Oberlin, Indiana University, New England Conservatory, the Tanglewood, Bowdoin, and Interlochen festivals, and the pre-colleges of Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. |
