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Keith Koons, D.M.A.
Professor of Clarinet, Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Phone: 407-823-5116
Office: Colbourn Hall 106
Email: kkoons@mail.ucf.edu
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Recent Accomplishments and Upcoming EventsJuly, 2008: At ClarinetFest in Kansas City, Keith Koons was elected president of the International Clarinet Association. He will serve from 2008 to 2010.
Dr. Koons has been a member of the UCF Music Department faculty since 1990.
His teaching areas include clarinet, music appreciation, woodwind chamber
music, and direction of the Early Music Ensemble.
A native of Maryland, he received his training at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BME), the Manhattan School of
Music (MM in clarinet performance), and the University of Southern
California (DMA in clarinet performance). He has studied with such notables
as Mitchell Lurie, Leon Russianoff, Robert Genovese and Donald Oehler. Dr.
Koons is an experienced performer in orchestra, opera, band, and chamber
music, as well as a veteran clinician and recitalist. He has performed as a
member of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, the opera companies of Orlando,
Arkansas, Annapolis, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and many others. He has
performed at clarinet festivals and academic conferences throughout the
United States and Europe. As former Music Director and performer with the
UCF-Orlando Shakespeare Festival, he composed and arranged music for the
plays in a wide variety of styles. Currently Principal Clarinet in the
Brevard Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne, FL, he also performs with the
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the Winter Park Bach Festival.
Below: Guest Artist James Campbell demonstrating a point to UCF clarinet student Daniel Gibson at the 2003 UCF Clarinet Day.
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