The clarinet studio of music instructor Trevor Pittman will boast some very special guests over the next week – two masters of the instrument will conduct master classes and hold recitals at the School of Music. In addition to university-level students, the events are open to high school woodwind students and members of the campus community.

Clarinettist Cecilia Kang is outstanding in her field.

Cecilia Kang, a member of the faculty at the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts and Concordia University in Ann Arbor, will lead a master class on Saturday, January 28, at 2:30 p.m. She will perform in recital at 7:30 p.m. Both events are in the Music Building’s room 139.

Dr. Kang’s multifaceted career as a performer, educator and scholar has taken her around the globe, from Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark to central Europe’s Austria, Switzerland and Germany to the Asian nations of South Korea and China. She is also a founding member of the Axios Woodwind Quintet and the St. Andrew Kim Youth Chamber Orchestra.

Suzanne Tirk will visit the UWindsor campus on Tuesday, January 31, performing at 11:30 a.m. in the Music Building’s room 139 and conducting a master class at 1 p.m. in room 126.

An assistant professor of clarinet at the University of Oklahoma, she also belongs to its woodwind-quintet-in-residence. Dr. Tirk has performed as a soloist with the Wichita State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble at in Carnegie Hall, and with Kazakhstan’s Astana Filharmonia and Karaganda Symphony Orchestra.