VDavisClarinet

Clarinetist Vanessa Davis is a thoughtful and creative artist teacher who is committed to engaging the next generation of musicians, teachers, and audiences through solo, chamber, and ensemble performances and maintaining a thriving private studio in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area.

Davis takes great pride in sharing music with members of the community. She regularly performed with the North Texas Wind Symphony and substitutes with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra. She has performed at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Portsmouth Music Hall, and Symphony Hall in Boston. She has been a member of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, the Boston Civic Symphony, Reading Massachusetts Symphony, Cambridge Symphony, Mercury Orchestra, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston as well as other orchestras and chamber groups around the Boston Metro, Finger Lakes, and Dallas Fort-Worth areas. In April she will perform Scott McAllister's Concerto X with the UNT Concert Band under Dr. Jacquelyn Townsend.

Davis has also given numerous conference performances and presentations. Most recently she performed a recital at the Texas Clarinet Colloquium and at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference. She has performed at the Midwest Clinic and the National Trumpet Competition. She currently is preparing for a performance at the International Clarinet Association Conference in Ostend, Belgium in July 2018 and a performance at the College Music Society Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia in October 2018.

Davis believes in the power of music for good and educating the next generation. In that vein, she takes pedagogy and teaching very seriously. With her over ten years experience as a private instructor, she has amassed a large studio of private students across two districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Many of her students have been successful at the district, region, area, and state levels. Under her guidance students have successfully auditioned for and attended the Tanglewood Summer Institute, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and Interlochen Arts Academy Summer Festivals among others. Her students have also earned numerous awards and honors including positions in the All-Eastern Band and Orchestra, the International Junior Ambassadors of Music, All-State Orchestras and Bands, and the All-New England Wind Ensemble and have attended Michigan State University, SUNY Potsdam, the University of North Texas, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Connecticut, the Eastman School of Music, Hofstra, and the Ithaca College School of Music. She teaches primarily private and group clarinet lessons and masterclasses, but is equally comfortable in a classroom setting because of her Music Education and high school teaching background. She strives to cultivate a life-long love of learning about music and desire to play the clarinet in each and every one of her students, no matter what their primary area of study.

Davis received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas in 2018. Her dissertation entitled, "A Concept-Based Pedagogy Approach to Selected Unaccompanied Clarinet Repertoire" addresses the benefits of concept-based pedagogy in producing students able to truly think and create, rather than simply reproduce. At UNT, she worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Wind Studies Department and taught Woodwind Methods in the Music Education Department and performed in the North Texas Wind Symphony under Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Prior to that, she taught Clarinet Techniques at the Ithaca College School of Music and Introduction to Music at the University of New Hampshire.

She studied with Dr. Kimberly Cole Luevano (University of North Texas), Richard MacDowell (former professor at University of Texas, Austin Butler School of Music), Elizabeth Gunlogson (University of New Hampshire), and David Seiler (University of New Hampshire).

VDavisClarinet’s tracks

• Uhl, Kleines Konzert for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano by VDavisClarinet
• Martinu, Sonatina For Clarinet by VDavisClarinet
• Jennifer Higdon, Sonata for Clarinet by VDavisClarinet
• Betsy Jolas, Episode Neuvieme (live) by VDavisClarinet
• Vivaldi arr. Davenport, Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, RV. 502: III by VDavisClarinet
• Vivaldi arr. Davenport, Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, RV. 502: II by VDavisClarinet
• Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Opus 120: II by VDavisClarinet
• Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Opus 120: I by VDavisClarinet
• Scott McAllister, X Concerto: I and II by VDavisClarinet
• Donato Lovreglio, Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi, Opus 45 by VDavisClarinet