Profile:Giselle Eastman

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Giselle Eastman was born in 1983 in Arlington, VA. She began playing the organ at the age of 8 but pursued the clarinet at age 10 and in high school performed with the American Youth Philharmonic. She had a jaw surgery after high school that forced her performance dreams to fade. She recovered, however, and still plays the clarinet recreationally. She took up composition at that point and eventually decided to switch her career goals after several years in computer science. She is now a first year student of music composition at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. Her current teacher is Dinos Constantinides.

Contact info

Giselle can be contacted at geastm1@lsu.edu.

Some Past Clarinet Repetoire

(in no particular order of study/performances)

Carl Maria Von Weber: Grand Duo Concertant Op.48 (RONDO - Allegro)

Camille Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 167

Claude Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie.

Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Andre Messager: Solo De Concours

Compositions

Completed:

-3 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano

-Dialogue for String Quartet

-Scherzo for Flute and Piano

-(A not yet named) four movement 12-tone string quartet

-Piece for Solo Flute

-Piece for Solo Saxophone

-"Making The Flight" (clarinet and piano)

Currently working on:

A trombone solo (with piano)

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Giselle has also completed numerous minor works for smaller ensembles that are not mentioned.