Harry G.

Harry started playing clarinet in the school band at age six. His father was a musician, and encouraged Harry to study music. He was the youngest member of his grade school band, but taking private music lessons helped him to keep up with the older kids. He participated in band programs throughout middle and high school. In middle school, he began studying saxophone and flute so he could play in the jazz band. As a high school junior and senior, he also got the opportunity to play in the Denver University Concert Band, and was first chair clarinet in Colorado All-State Band and Orchestra.

Harry attended the University of Denver on a swimming scholarship as an Accounting Major and Music Minor. He was first clarinet in the 1st Infantry Army Band at Ft. Meade, Maryland, and then toured Europe as first chair flute in the 3rd Army Band based in Wurzburg, Germany. After returning to the states he attended Metropolitan State College as a Music Performance Major. During this time he started teaching and playing professionally and has been doing so ever since.

Throughout his career, Harry has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on clarinet and saxophone, on second clarinet with the Central City Opera, and as a soloist for the Littleton and Jefferson Symphony Orchestras on clarinet and saxophone. He has performed on woodwinds for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Denver Municipal Band. He has played shows at the Boulder Dinner Theater, the Country Dinner Playhouse, the Littleton Town Hall Center for the Arts, the Schwayder Theater, and the Lone Tree Center for the Arts, and others. He plays many styles of music including jazz, blues, pop, ethnic, klezmer, and polkas for clubs, parties, weddings, and concerts with a wide variety of talented musicians in big band, quartet, trio, and duo settings. Harry has also been featured on many albums for different artists and performs with a band that plays original jazz, blues, bluegrass, and klezmer. Finally, he leads a strolling duo on clarinet.

While Harry has experienced much fulfillment and success as a performer and collaborator, he loves that teaching gives him an opportunity to share the enthusiasm and joy he has for music. Now, he has over 50 years of experience as an educator. He helps his students build good fundamentals, customizes lessons to define and reach realistic goals, and addresses students needs that are the result of their involvement in school band or other musical activities. He is passionate about helping develop his students' talents as musicians, and he's grateful that his extensive musical background allows him to do so by offering them a broad spectrum of musical knowledge.