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Biography
Principal horn of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra since February 1966, Dale Clevenger is a
versatile musician in many areas in addition to
the CSO, including chamber music, jazz, commercial
recordings, and solos. His mentors are Arnold
Jacobs and Adolph Herseth.
Before joining the CSO, Dale was a member of
Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra
and the Symphony of the Air directed by Alfred
Wallenstein, and was principal horn of the Kansas
City Philharmonic. He has appeared as soloist with
orchestras worldwide, including the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
conducting. He has taken part in many music
festivals including the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival; the Florida Music Festival in Sarasota;
the Marrowstone Music Festival in Port Townsend,
Washington; the Affinis Music Festival in Japan
and the FAME Festival. Dale has worked with the
European Community Youth Orchestra under Claudio
Abbado, conducting and teaching, and has
participated in several International Horn Society
Workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has
given recitals and master classes throughout the
world. In July of 1998, he was a featured artist
in the Finnish Horn Society Workshop. Recently he
gave a master class in Saarbruken, Germany.
Dale is the featured soloist on several CSO
recordings including Martin's Concerto for Seven
Winds, Strings, and Percussion (Martinon
conducting); Schumann's Konzertstúck for four
horns (Barenboim conducting); Britten's Serenade
for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (Giulini conducting);
and Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 3 (Abbado
conducting). He also played on the Grammy
Award-winning recording The Antiphonal Music of
Gabrieli with the Chicago, Philadelphia, and
Cleveland orchestra's brass ensembles. He has
recorded the two Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn
Horn Concertos with the Franz Liszt Chamber
Orchestra of Budapest for Teldec, as well as all
of Mozart's horn concertos for Sony Classics. The
Mozart recording was named Record of the Year in
Hungary on the European label Hungaraton. The
Mozart and Haydn recordings were both nominated
for Grammy Awards. He performed with Maestro
Barenboim and a colleague in the CSO and two
colleagues from the Berlin Philharmonic in Chicago
and Berlin on the Erato CD of the Mozart and
Beethoven Quintets for Piano and Winds, which also
won a Grammy. With Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak
Perlman, he recorded Brahms's Horn Trio for high
definition television, laser disc, and Sony
Classical CD. He recently performed on the new
Tribute to Ellington CD with Daniel Barenboim and
other members of the CSO. He also recorded
Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, with Daniel
Barenboim and the CSO for Teldec; the CD is
scheduled to be released in the fall of 2000.
He played almost regularly for seventeen years
with the group "EARS," JAZZ OF ALL ERAS.
In 1985, he received an honorary doctor of music
degree from Elmhurst College and currently teaches
at Roosevelt University, where he is a professor
of horn.
Also a conductor, Dale served for fourteen years
as music director of the Elmhurst Symphony
Orchestra. His conducting career has included
guest appearances with the New Japan Philharmonic
(Tokyo), the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Shanghai
Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Symphony (Tampa),
The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Roosevelt
University Symphony Orchestra, the Carnegie Mellon
University Symphony Orchestra (Pittsburgh), the
Toronto Conservatory Orchestra, the Northwestern
University Summer Symphony, the Santa Cruz
Symphony, the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra
(Perth), the Aguascaliente Symphony Orchestra
(Mexico), and the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. He
also has conducted the Florence Festival Orchestra
in Italy. During 1999, he conducted the I Solisti
Fiorentini, and this past September he assisted
Maestro Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel
Philharmonic.
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