Alan Kay, ClarinetAlan Kay, ClarinetClarinetist Alan Kay was a winner of the Young Artists Auditions with the group Hexagon; he also travels extensively with Windscape. Mr. Kay has performed with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1985 and serves as principal clarinetist of the Riverside Symphony and the new music group Parnassus. Recipient of the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, Mr. Kay has recorded widely, most recently with Windscape in a CD entitled "The Roaring Twenties." Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble, his series of thematic chamber music programs with the ensemble has become the Cape May Music Festival's top-drawing classical event. Mr. Kay has been heard nationwide on PRI's St. Paul Sunday and NPR's Performance Today and throughout Canada on the CBC. He appears as a guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Da Camera of Houston, and with the Santa Fe and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festivals. A published arranger, he has adapted works of Kurt Weill, Mozart, Debussy and Zez Confrey for various chamber ensemble combinations. Also a conductor, Mr. Kay studied at Juilliard under Otto-Werner Mueller and has appeared with the Jupiter, Staten Island and Buck's County Symphonies, the Cape May Festival Orchestra, and the New York Chamber Ensemble. Last season, he led Raphael Mostel's acclaimed theater piece, The Adventures of Babar, in several performances at Gould Hall at the Alliance Francaise in New York.
