Article published in Clarinet and Saxophone magazine, Spring 2021 Excerpt: “From May to December 2020, Andrew Michael Simon, principal clarinettist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, hosted over 50 hours of online interviews with leading clarinet players as part of ‘Andy’s Licorice talk’. He shares some of the highlights and common…
Clarinet and Saxophone magazine republished the following archival article in their Winter 2021 issue Click image below for PDF: First Published in Clarinet and Saxophone: December 1st, 1994 On April 12 1992, I was on a plane to Beijing where I was to meet an official who would hand me a…
Published in Clarinetwise: May 1st, 1998 Dear Clarinetwise, Recently a clarinettist who will study with me in the fall wrote me, asking about fixing some problems. It is not so easy to explain in writing and some of the methods are a bit unorthodox, but I thought I’d share some of…
Published in Clarinetwise: February 1st, 1998 Dear Clarinetwise, I am very sorry to not have written an article, but I was literally running around the world (read article) and just lost track of deadlines! I have decided to take a disorganised approach to this article. I was thinking about what to…
Published in Australian Clarinet and Saxophone: March 1st, 1998 True or False? Professional Orchestra auditions are often unfair, have little to do with how well you do the actual job, can be political, often have adjudicators who are worse than the majority of contestants, are often the only way to get…