Tom Apple

1978 International Clarinet Clinic : international clarinet competition Date : Monday, August 7, 1978 (here's a local copy of Tom's performance -- a Junior in High School!)

At least they gave Tom "6th place": sounds better than last!:) Last among a talented crew of very high achievers, that's for sure....
Awards & competitions (December 1, 1979): Tom Apple, a clarinet student at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, was awarded first prize in the woodwind division of the Music Teachers National Association Mason and Hamlin High School Auditions. He received a cash prize and an appearance at the MTNA National Convention in Seattle.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, November 10, 1981: Friday the Philharmonia Orchestra, under the direction of Gerhard Samuel, performed Copland's Clarinet Concerto with student soloist Tom Apple, who seemed quite at home with the piece's syncopated Americanisms and gave it a fine performance, supported wholeheartedly by the orchestra....
Music complements art as ensemble opens series (May 12, 1992): Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Divertimento for flute, clarinet, violin and cello is lean, compact and rather cool in temperament. Neither determinedly abstract nor unabashedly romantic, the score makes its modest points calmly and effectively. It received a taut, committed performance from flutist Lisa Byrnes, clarinetist Tom Apple, violinist David Mastrangelo and cellist Chris Glansdorp.
Jennifer Higdon's gentle Soliloquy, originally a movement from an English horn concerto, was arranged for clarinet and strings expressly for Apple. He played the lyrical themes with admirable tone control and expressive contour. The strings -- Mastrangelo, Glansdorp, violinist Leonid Rabinovitch, violist Fergus Scarfe (New Virtuosi's director) -- were equally sensitive.
New Music of the Americas
New Music of the Americas
with the SFCA New Music Ensemble
Special Guests: electro-acoustic ensemble BRIAREUS
A Hundred Heads* (1991), T. Apple & C. Glansdorp
Tom Apple, clarinet & Chris Glansdorp, cello
Thomas B. "Tom" Apple: 1961-1994
Mr. Apple was a clarinetist and music teacher. He also composed and performed contemporary electronic music.
He was a member of the New World Symphony, and for the past three years taught music theory and clarinet at the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fla.
He had played for chamber groups and orchestras throughout the Midwest, including the Cincinnati Symphony and later the Honolulu, Hawaii, Symphony.
Mr. Apple received a degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and had attended Interlochen music camp in Michigan for five summers when a teenager. He moved to Florida in 1988.
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Thomas  Apple
Birth 25 Jun 1961
Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Death 3 Jul 1994 (aged 33)
Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
Burial 
Zion Bloom Cemetery
Vanlue, Hancock County, Ohio, USA
Plot Old Section, Row 17
Memorial ID        129354172
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and he was Andy Long's best friend in high school....:( I love you, Tom! See you soon, you rascal!

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