Michael Corner

Clarinetist Michael Corner is the Principal Clarinet of Symphony San Jose, formerly the San Jose Symphony.    He has appeared there as soloist in works by Mozart, Weber, Bruch, Debussy, Copland, Nielsen, Bernstein, and Artie Shaw, among others.

 

He has appeared as Principal Clarinet with all the regional orchestras in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Oakland, Marin, Berkeley, Modesto, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Merola Opera,  and many others.  He has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras.

 

As a woodwind doubler, Corner has appeared in dozens and dozens of productions of musicals, produced in San Francisco, San Jose, and Palo Alto CA, and visiting touring productions in each each of these cities.   He performed in the pre-Broadway world premiere productions of Baz Luhrmann’s “La Boheme” and Stephen Schwartz’ “Wicked”, both at the Curran Theater in San Francisco.   He traveled with the “Beauty and the Beast” national tour.

 

He studied at the University of Southern California under Mitchell Lurie, and went on to receive a Soloist’s Diploma from the Basel (Switzerland) Conservatory, where he studied under Hans Rudolf Stalder.   

 

While in Europe, he appeared as Principal Clarinet with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic, and performed with the  Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Basler Orchester Gesellschaft and Basel Radio Orchestra, among many others.   As a saxophonist/doubler he performed and recorded with the Radio Big Bands of Zurich and Frankfurt (Germany).

 

Corner is comfortable with all styles, from Dixieland, Jazz, Polka and Klezmer, to avant garde classical and everything in between.

 

He runs a state of the art teaching studio from his home in Silicon Valley, and formerly taught at Santa Clara University.

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