Morehead State University, Kentucky, faculty member Lori Baruth will perform a guest clarinet recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, in 128 Music Building II on the University Park campus of Penn State. Admission is free.
Baruth is associate professor of clarinet at Morehead State University, where she joined the faculty in 2007. She received her doctorate degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, her master’s degree, and bachelor’s degrees in music education and clarinet performance from The Ohio State University. Her teachers have included Richie Hawley, Steve Cohen, James Pyne, and Donald McGinnis.
Baruth has performed as principal clarinet with the Huntington, Westerville, Cave Run, and Central Ohio Symphony Orchestras, Heisey Wind Ensemble, and Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca Orchestra (Italy). She was the guest artist at the Eastern Plains Clarinet Celebration at Eastern New Mexico University in 2017. She taught at the 2011 Festival Nacional de Música at the Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas da UFG in Goiañia, Brazil. She has performed in the Marshall University New Music Festival, Grandin Vocal Chamber Music Festival, and the MusicX Contemporary Music Festival.
In 2012, she was a finalist in the International Clarinet Association (ICA) research competition, and her doctoral research was published in The Clarinet, the professional journal of the ICA. She is a co-founder of Trifecta!, a trio for clarinet, bassoon, and piano, and also performs with the Baird Winds and Movére woodwind quintets.
She performed as part of Trifecta! at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in 2014 and 2016, the International Double Reed Society’s annual conference in 2017, the ICA Mid-America Clarinet Festival in 2014, the New Music Festival at Marshall University, Kentucky Music Teacher's Association annual conference, and the Kentucky Music Educator’s Association State Conference. Trifecta! released its debut album in March 2015. Baruth also serves as clarinet faculty member at the Lutheran Summer Music Festival and Academy.
Baruth is a Yamaha Performing Artist, performing on CSGII H clarinets, and is also a D'Addario Artist, performing on the Reserve X0 mouthpiece and Classic Reserve reeds. She enjoys being an artist-educator for college and high school musicians and incorporating her training and love of Dalcroze Eurhythmics into her music-making and pedagogy.
Baruth is always happy to work with students of all ages and capabilities in order to help them on their paths of progress and music learning. She loves commissioning new works and is an advocate for new music and for timeless classics of the clarinet and wind repertory.