The Mercury, Tasmania, Australia – May 12, 2011by Penny Thow Hong Kong Philharmonic principal clarinet player Andrew Simon is expected to blow the audience away with his musicianship at the Visiting Artist Series concert at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music on Monday. Simon studied at the Juilliard School in New York…
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong – September 13, 2009 Andrew Simon is ebullient, Warren Lee is reserved.Yet the duo embody the solidarity and breadth of local classical music talent, writes Sam Olluver. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department could not have picked two more dissimilar musicians for its Our…
Published in Clarinetwise: May 1st, 1998 Dear Clarinetwise, Recently a clarinettist who will study with me in the fall wrote me, asking about fixing some problems. It is not so easy to explain in writing and some of the methods are a bit unorthodox, but I thought I’d share some of…
Published in Clarinetwise: February 1st, 1998 Dear Clarinetwise, I am very sorry to not have written an article, but I was literally running around the world (read article) and just lost track of deadlines! I have decided to take a disorganised approach to this article. I was thinking about what to…
Published in Australian Clarinet and Saxophone: March 1st, 1998 True or False? Professional Orchestra auditions are often unfair, have little to do with how well you do the actual job, can be political, often have adjudicators who are worse than the majority of contestants, are often the only way to get…
Published in Clarinet and Saxophone: December 1st, 1994 On April 12 1992, I was on a plane to Beijing where I was to meet an official who would hand me a visa and put me on a plane to North Korea. I was not told his name, or how to find…
