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KLARINETTE < > an expanding school
Marconi Andrade is an effective professor in the State Department of Education of the State of Goiás. Since 2008, he has been training and guiding students in public schools. He has served as a guest professor at festivals and has taught classes in different parts of Brazil. He is a researcher of the German clarinet, as well as of the school that guides it, promoting this instrument on this website, in seminars, and also on social networks. Above all, Marconi has disseminated the German clarinet in regular schools, in the conservatory, in private lessons, and also in his daily teaching routine.
Therefore, he has been adopting the German clarinet and the technical-musical elements related to the German school as a didactic basis in his pedagogical practice. In short, Marconi Andrade effectively introduced the teaching of the German clarinet in the public school system in 2022, in the conservatory, and in regular education in 2023.
Until recently in Brazil, as well as in different parts of the world, it was believed that only those who were born in Germany or Austria, or who had studied in these places from an early age, would be able to play the German clarinet. Consequently, the German clarinet is an instrument that is little studied around the world.
In addition, among the various factors that contributed to the lack of dissemination of the German clarinet, one can highlight the difficulty of acquiring the instrument outside the European continent and its cost, even for beginner-level models. Such factors can still be observed today, even with the ease of communication and commerce that the internet has brought us. For example, there is no German clarinet suitable for teaching available for purchase in Brazil.
To make the teaching of the German clarinet accessible in Brazil, Marconi Andrade, through extensive research, has made cost-effective instruments available and prepared for students interested in beginning on this instrument. Indeed, such actions have been promoting not only the dissemination of the German clarinet in Brazilian schools but also performance. In this way, it is expected that a new school of Klarinette will develop and be systematized in Brazil, inspiring other parts of Latin America and the world as well.
Lecture and class on the German clarinet at the 5th State Meeting of Bands and Orchestras of Goiás - Brazil, 2019.
Student: Marcos Sauaia (Brazil - 2019)
2nd State Meeting of Bands and Orchestras.
Theme: The relationship between techniques and materials with a focus on the German clarinet school. Brazil, 2017.
