Marianne Gythfeldt
Clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt is a leading interpreter of contemporary repertoire, and electroacoustic music in particular. She has premiered more than 100 new works and performed widely in Europe, Asia and the United States as a soloist and member of Talea Ensemble, Zephyros Winds, and as a performer with Absolute Ensemble and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Solo and chamber music recordings include the works of Robert Morris (Albany Records), Elliott Carter (Mode Records), Morton Feldman with New Millennium Ensemble (Koch Records) and Music of Joe Zawinul with Absolute Ensemble (Sunnyside Records).
Gythfeldt holds master's and bachelor's degrees from Stony Brook and the Eastman School of Music, and she is a recipient of the Naumburg Chamber Music award as the clarinetist of New Millennium Ensemble. She has taught on the faculty of the University of Delaware and William Paterson University, and she is currently on the faculty of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where she teaches clarinet and chamber music and co-directs the new music ensemble conTEMPO.