Michel Lethiec is a French classical

clarinetist The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. The clarinet family is the largest woodw ...

. Michel Lethiec has played with the

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, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the

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, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the

Salzburg Mozarteum Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the "Mozarteum" name in Salzburg municipality; the International Mozarteum ...

, the Prague Radio Orchestra, and the Philharmonique de Radio France. He has premiered works by several composers, including

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...

and

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. He has been teaching music at the

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until 2016. He is also artistic director of the Pablo Casals Festival.

Discography

*''Larsson: 12 Concertinos, Op 45'', 1991 *''Kurtag - Ligeti - Pesson'', 1997 *''Mozart Clarinet Quintet, 1999 *''Krzysztof PENDERECKI: Concertos pour clarinette'', 2000 *''Jean-Baptiste Vanhal: Concertos for clarinet, oboe and bassoon'', 2003 *

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: Septet, Ottetto and Petite Suite Gauloise, 2004 (conducting Les Solistes de Prades and recorded by

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) *''Penderecki: Sextet, Clarinet Quartet'', 2003 *''Eternal Penderecki'', 2008 *''Gershwin, G.: Clarinet and Strings Music'', 2009

References

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