Summers, Jerome
Jerome Summers has enjoyed a distinguished career as a conductor, clarinetist, composer, and teacher. As a clarinet artist, he has performed with many of Canada’s major symphony orchestras as well as with internationally renowned chamber and solo performers. Prior to joining the Performance Faculty at The University of Western Ontario, he served as clarinetist in the Vancouver Opera Association, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New Music Society of Vancouver, Early Music Society of Vancouver (recorders and other Renaissance instruments), the Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestras, National Ballet of Canada Tours, New York Joffrey Ballet (soloist), Cassenti Players of Vancouver, Cambini Wind Quintet, numerous Hollywood Sound Track recordings and commercial recordings.
More recently, he has appeared internationally with such ensembles and artists as: The Canadian Opera Company, Ottawa Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Sinfonietta, Kamloops Symphony, Orchestra London, Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, Sinfonia of North Vancouver, Il Divo, Audubon Quartet, Los Angeles Camerata, oboist Alex Klein, bassoonist Charles Ullery, cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, violinists Eduard Minevich, Joseph Lanza, and pianists William Aide, Ronald Turini, Jane Hayes, Janina Fialkowska, and Robert Kortgaard.
