USC Aiken Clarinetist Reprises Special Concert

Aiken, SC (10/01/2019) — The University of South Carolina Aiken Music Department provides a free concert, featuring Zachary Bond on clarinet, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the Etherredge Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. The public is invited.

Bond, who is in final throes of his doctorate program, will perform the recital for Aiken audiences after performing it in September in the USC Columbia School of Music. The performance, which is part of his doctoral completion requirements, features three works by Dr. Austin Jaquith, associate professor of music theory and composition at Cedarville University in Ohio: Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, Ballad for Clarinet Solo, and Mediation...Separation...for Clarinet and Piano. In addition, Bond will provide additional insight on each composition, offering details on Jaquith's compositional style and musical influences on these pieces from other composers.

"My dissertation itself is a guide to performing these works," Bond said.

"This concert will also be a premiere performance in Aiken of Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, Dr. Jaquith's latest work for clarinet composed last year."

Bond expects to complete the requirements for his doctorate in the spring. In addition to instructing students on the clarinet, he also teaches introduction to music and world music classes and conducts clarinet ensemble rehearsals. The accomplished clarinetist is a faculty artist in the university's wind ensemble and is a member of the Aiken Symphony Orchestra, the Aiken Civic Orchestra, and Savannah River Winds.

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