John McCowen has made a career of transforming the contrabass clarinet into an instrument all his own. Born in Carbondale and now based in Reykjavik, Iceland, the composer got involved with music as a ...

I’m taking my own advice and trying something new yet again. As I sat in concert band one day watching several new instruments being brought out I looked down at my clarinet and said to myself, “I ...

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...