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KLARINETTE < > an expanding school
Marconi Andrade is an effective professor at the State Department of Education of the State of Goiás. Since 2008, it has been training and guiding students in public schools. He has acted as a guest professor at festivals and given classes in different parts of Brazil. He is a researcher of the German clarinet, as well as the school that guides it, propagating this instrument on this website, in seminars, and also on social networks. Above all, Marconi has spread the German clarinet in regular schools, in the conservatory, in private lessons, and also in his daily teaching routine.
Therefore, he has been adopting the German clarinet and the technical-musical elements, referring to the German school, as a didactic basis in his pedagogical practice. In short, Marconi Andrade effectively introduced the teaching of the German clarinet in the public school system in 2022, in the conservatory, and in regular education, in 2023.
Until recently in Brazil, as well as in different parts of the world, it was believed that it would only be possible to play the German clarinet, who was born in Germany or Austria, or who studied in these places from an early age. Consequently, the German clarinet is an instrument little studied in the world.
In addition, among different factors that contributed to the non-propagation of the German clarinet, one can highlight the difficulty in acquiring the instrument outside the European continent and the value of the instrument, even when intended for beginners. Such factors can still be observed today, even with the ease of communication and commerce that the internet has brought us. For example, there is no German clarinet, suitable for teaching, available for purchase in Brazil.
To make the teaching of the German clarinet available in Brazil, Marconi Andrade, through intense research, has made available and prepared cost-effective instruments for students interested in starting on this instrument. Indeed, such actions have been promoting not only the propagation of the German clarinet in Brazilian schools but also the performance.
In this way, it is expected that a new School of "klarinette" will develop and be systematized in Brazil, also inspiring other parts of Latin America and the world.
Lecture and class on the German clarinet at the 5th State Meeting of Bands and Orchestras of Goiás - Brazil, 2019.
Student: Marcos Sauaia (Brazil - 2019)
2nd State Meeting of Bands and Orchestras.
Theme: The relationship between techniques and materials with a focus on the German clarinet school. Brazil, 2017.
