The clarinettist Alan R. Kay joined Orpheus in 2002. He was a winner of the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a 2002 Presidential Scholars Teachers Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon, featured in the film, "Debut". A co-founder and member of the distinguished wind quintet, Windscape, he has travelled through the United States and all over the world with that and numerous other ensembles. He also appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with the Mendelssohn, Mirò, and Shanghai String Quartets.

An accomplished conductor, he studied at the Juilliard School with Otto-Werner Mueller and has led the Orchestra at Azusa Pacific University, Speculum Musicae, the Cape May Orchestra, and the Buck's County and Staten Island Symphonies. He served as director of the Purchase Symphony and Juilliard Pre-CollegeOrchestra for several years. Winner of a 2003 Presidential Scholars TeacherAward, Alan Kay was a visiting professor at the Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany, in the summer of 2004 and currently teaches on the faculties of the Manhattan, Hartt and Juilliard Schools.

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