Osiris Molina

Affiliation:
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
Cavell Trio

Artist's Biography
Dr. Osiris J. Molina is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at The University of Alabama. A native of Elizabeth, New Jersey, he has considerable experience as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Dr. Molina's recent professional accomplishments have taken him overseas and across the country. In 2009 he performed a concerto with the Beijing Wind Orchestra at the 2009 Beijing International Band Festival in China and served as a judge for the festival woodwind competition. That performance led to a return engagement, and he will appear again with the BWO at the National Arts Center in Beijing in July 2010. In December 2009 he was the featured soloist in Scott McAllister's Black Dog at the MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago with Alabama's Hillcrest High School Wind Ensemble. Dr. Molina has also performed concerti with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble, including Michael Daugherty's Brooklyn Bridge at the Alabama Music Educators Convention, and recently recorded Black Dog with the ensemble for commercial release. His most interesting performance this year was as featured soloist with the University of Alabama Million Dollar Marching Band at the BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California for an estimated audience of over 30 million viewers on ABC.

In addition to his solo work, Dr. Molina is an active orchestral and chamber musician. He is currently Principal Clarinet of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Alabama, Huntsville, Mobile and Meridian symphony clarinet sections, in addition to work with the Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Greater Lansing, and Bridgeport (CT) symphony orchestras. His chamber music performances include the concert series at the Southampton Cultural Center (NY), the Banff Centre, and the Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), where his performance with the Festival Orchestra of the music of Edmond Dd was released on compact disc on the Naxos label. Dr. Molina is clarinetist in the Capstone Woodwind Quintet, the faculty quintet at the University of Alabama. They are committed to outreach efforts in the Alabama schools, evidenced by tours in the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville and greater-Atlanta regions. Their most recent concerts were in Havana, Cuba as part of the university's Alabama in Cuba initiative. Dr. Molina also gave a master class at the Instituto Superior de Arte, the national conservatory of Cuba. Dr. Molina is also a member of the Cavell Trio, a reed trio dedicated to the music of this unique combination. They have performed nationally and internationally, including an invitation to perform at the International Villa-Lobos Conference in Richmond, Virginia in 2007. The trio is currently preparing for their first recording project to be released through Hackberry Records, an independent music label from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dr. Molina's commitment to new music is seen through his participation in commissioning consortiums. He has participated in group commissioning efforts for Roshanne Etezady (Bright Angel); David Maslanka (Eternal Garden), which he premiered in April 2010 with the composer in attendance, and the upcoming trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano by Bill Douglas. In addition to premiering these works, he will premiere the new clarinet and piano piece by Frederic Goossen in 2011.

In addition to his performance schedule, Osiris will teach at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. Dr. Molina holds degrees from Michigan State University (DMA), Yale School of Music (MM), and Rutgers University (BM), where he studied with Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, Ayoko Ashima and Dr. William Berz. Osiris has been active in music education at all levels. He has taught middle school general music and high school instrumental music in the Beacon City School District (NY). Dr. Molina has previously served on the faculties of Kean University (NJ), Spring Arbor University (MI), and Albion College (MI). He teaches applied clarinet, chamber music and clarinet methods in the Music Education curriculum.

Dr. Molina has recently been added to the roster of Endorsing Artists for the Conn-Selmer Corporation, and will begin performing on the Selmer Paris Recital series clarinet in Fall, 2010.

Artist's Influences
Alfred Boskovsky, Thea King, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Charles Neidich, David Shifrin

Appearances / Venues

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Contact Information
E-mail Address: omolina@music.ua.edu
Website: http://music.ua.edu/faculty-staff/osiris-molina/
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