Glenn Dickson

Solo clarinet with electronics

Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, has been performing his solo clarinet with electronics for over 20 years.  in and around Boston and New York City and for film and multimedia projects.  As leader of Naftule's Dream and Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, he has toured North America and Europe, at venues as diverse as the Berlin Jazz Festival and the Philly Pops, and recorded 11 albums.  He has collaborated with Maurice Sendak (Pincus & the Pig) and his music has been used by Woody Allen (in Deconstructing Harry).   As a composer he has won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant for music composition.  Glenn has performed his "Dreams & Meditations" in the Boston area, New York City and the Washington D.C. area.  Glenn's first solo album,  "Wider Than the Sky." was released to international acclaim in July 2022.   He has a new duo album with synthesist Bob Familiar, "All the Light of Our Sphere,"  releasing in May, 2025.

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Past Concerts

Epsilon spires, Brattleboro, VT

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Festival of Microtonal Music, New York, NY

Kings Chapel, Boston, MA

 

Follen Church, Lexington, MA

Medford Jazz Festival, Medford, MA

The Foundry,  Cambridge, MA

Floating Lotus, Gloucester, MA

Colors in Motion audiovisual meditation

Press / Reviews

“Dickson essentially meditates through his instrument, creating an hour of sacred ambience that seems to be setting a table for a meeting between the corporeal and spirit worlds” - Michael Tolland

— The Big Takeover

“The music is certainly hypnotic and is melodic and relaxing while often utilizing a drone effect, displaying the influence of not just Jewish music but that of Greece and the Far East.” - Scott Yanow

— Downbeat

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