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Wilbur Moreland, principal |
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Clarinet
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Wilbur Moreland is an Adjunct Professor in the Center for Performing Arts at the University of Mobile, where he teaches clarinet, saxophone and woodwind pedagogy. He is also Professor Emeritus in the School of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi where he taught from September 1972 until retiring in May of 2005. He also has taught in the public schools in Nyack, New York and Rapid City, South Dakota, as well as at The University of the East (Manila, Philippines), The University of The Philippines, and The University of Texas at El Paso. He was in the Philippines from 1967 through 1970 as a J. D. Rockefeller III Fund Fellow. Mr. Moreland has held the principal clarinet position with the Greeley (Colorado), Westchester (New York), El Paso, Manila, and Pensacola Symphonies. He is currently the Principal Clarinetist in the Meridian (Mississippi) Symphony Orchestra, the Tupelo (Mississippi) Symphony, the Mobile Symphony, and the Mobile Opera Orchestra. He has performed as soloist with several symphonies, most recently performing the Debussy Première Rhapsody with the Mobile Symphony in March 2005. Mr. Moreland may be heard in recordings issued by Spectrum Records, Shawnee Press, and Albany Records. In the spring of 1997 Mr. Moreland was featured in a solo tour that included performances in Brisbane, Australia; Christ Church, New Zealand; Manila and Cebu, Philippines; and Honolulu, Hawaii. He has appeared in recitals at the International Clarinet Association Clarifests. He and his wife, Cristina, reside in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where she maintains a large piano studio. |
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