Jackie Glazier - Magic Forest Scenes (2020)

This is an album of great works for clarinet and piano. Jackie Glazier and Galen Dean Peiskee, Jr. make this a particularly engaging album. Hailed for her robust playing and virtuosic performance (San Diego Tribune) and beautiful and clear tone (The Clarinet Magazine), Jackie Glazier is an active soloist, chamber musician, orchestral clarinetist, pedagogue, and advocate of new music. As assistant professor of clarinet at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, Glazier is a committed pedagogue and mentor to future generations of clarinetists, and a member of the Arizona Wind Quintet. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States and in China, Mexico, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Croatia, and Carnegie Halls Weill Recital Hall. Galen Dean Peiskee has established a multifaceted career as an accomplished chamber musician, soloist, orchestral pianist, accompanist, and vocal coach. He has performed all over the United States as well as throughout the world in Poland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Cuba and Bolivia. He is a member of the Emerald Trio, Trio Vivo, Young-Peiskee flute-piano duo, the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble, and the Cerulean Trio, finalists in the 2016 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. Dean has performed as a soloist with the Brazos Chamber Orchestra multiple times, and was the pianist for the Singing Girls of Texas for 5 years. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in May 2017, performing music of Timothy Hoekman in Weill Recital Hall.