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Gregory Oakes

@multiphonic

New music performer and clarinet professor at Iowa State University. Favorite things? Creating new sounds and working with composers.

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Joined February 2009
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You know what’s cool? Meeting a stranger on Twitter > them turning out to be a kindred spirit > them commissioning you > you writing your admirations and images of them into the piece > other people getting goodness now out of that collaboration ☺️ @alantheisen
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Music friends, can you help me with a #SignalBoost? #classicalmusic #newmusic #livestreams – at Metairie, LA
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Us too! The Live Music Project concert calendar features livestreams and broadcasts of classical and new music all over the world! We also email each Thursday a weekend digest of everything coming up on the calendar to thousands of listeners! Submit your events!
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This Sunday! Join us for our next #DMSOatHome Live concert featuring Principal Clarinet Gregory Oakes at 7pm on our Facebook page. Check out the livestream here: bit.ly/GregoryOakesLive @multiphonic
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Announcing FIVE new calls for scores! Clarinet | Bassoon | Trumpet | Tuba | Violin Application deadline April 17, 2020 newmusicshelf.com/cfs-instru…
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Do not let the world make you hard. – at West Des Moines, IA
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Lucy@Lucyjoyviolin10 Oct 2019
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people play dotted rhythms like triplets
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InterLibrary Loan is evidence of a benevolent god who loves humankind. – at West Des Moines, IA
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"Even in an age when we can buy most any book with a single click, the InterLibrary Loan system remains a beautiful creation." A brief history of the apex of human civilization. lithub.com/interlibrary-loan…
InterLibrary Loan Will Change Your Life

InterLibrary Loan Will Change Your Life

The librarian greeted me, asked for my name, and scanned a shelf of books along the wall. She pulled one from the collection, and placed it on the counter—but left her hand on the book. She smiled.…

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Hey new music twitter, gimme your fave pieces for clarinet and piano. I'm working up a program with @multiphonic. Feel free to send your stuff too if you've got something!
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"So into the CD player goes this one and…wow, I really need to hear more Lachenmann and whoever this Oakes guy is I want to pay attention to what he is doing with that clarinet." @canticle lauds @multiphonic for his Lachenmann allbum, Aesthetic Apparatus buff.ly/2AgxwKt
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2019 Cortona Sessions for New Music - Apply Now! - mailchi.mp/72472dd14f98/2019…
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DATES ANNOUNCED! 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF THE CORTONA SESSIONS FOR NEW MUSIC cortonasessions.org/news/201…
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Lisa Neher@LisaNeher30 May 2018
Oh hey.... just a little clarinet solo, done 3 days before we move! #Gulper #newmusic #clarinet #eelsongs Thanks to @fluteplusreeds & @multiphonic for letting me run ideas by them! – at Marion, IA
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Hey creators, don’t feel guilty about self promotion. Stop calling it a “shameless act” You took the time and effort to make something, you should be able to tell people “Hey I worked hard on this and I think you will like it.” Be proud of yourself.
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EPISODE 2 HAS LANDED. We debate nuts (poll forthcoming), review the new album from @multiphonic (on @NewFocusLabel), and blow the lid off of the biggest musical conspiracy in modern history. soundcloud.com/contemporary-…
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The Cortona Sessions is pleased to annouce that Tonia Ko (@toneswithtonia) has been chosen as the winner of the 2018 Cortona Prize for her piece Reaction (Axis III) for flute and piano!!!! cortonasessions.org
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Eve Beglarian@evbvd4 Aug 2017
great list by Anne Midgette​, I'm delighted to be included! and thinking about all the wonderful female composer... fb.me/1cbqlYO0b
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Vandoren USA@VandorenUSA23 Jul 2017
Sneek preview of Day 1 of 3 at the @icaclarinet conference this year in Orlando, FL. The person… instagram.com/p/BW545swnDjH/
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Vandoren USA@VandorenUSA13 Jul 2017
American artists, Greg Oakes and Geoffrey Deibel sending some love from the Cortona Sessions in Cortona, Italy. @geoffdeibel @multiphonic
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#QOTD
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We’re broadcasting the #centraliowa #symphony live from #ames #iowa at 3:00pm! Music of Sousa, Copland (feat. @multiphonic), Ellington, and…
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