Biography...

He has performed with musicians such as...

 Barbara Bonney, Kathleen Battle, Joshua Bell, Cho Liang Lin, Vladimir Feltsman, Glenn Gould, Steven Isserlis, Yo-Yo Ma, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Pinchas Zukerman and as well has collaborated with the American, Emerson, Muir, St. Lawrence, Orford, Yingstring quartets and the Kalichstein-Laredo- Robinson Trio, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the International Sejong Soloists. Commissioning many works by Canadian composers, he gave the American premiere of Arias for clarinet and orchestra by Michael Colgrass with the Buffalo Philharmonic.

Mr Valdepeñas made his European debut...

 with the BBC-Welsh Symphony on BBC television, Sir Andrew Davis conducting, and has recorded the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the English Orchestra (Summit DCD131). He has also recorded extensively for CBC, Centrediscs, Naxos, Sony and Summit and was featured in a PBS documentary about the Aspen Music Festival both as clarinetist and conductor. Mr Valdepeñas is currently on the faculty of The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music and today many of his past students hold positions in orchestras around the world. As an exclusive Yamaha artist he was instrumental in the design of the new CSG Yamaha clarinet combining the French and German traditions into a unique voice.

Amici Chamber Ensemble....

His chamber group "Amici" has released their ninth and tenth CD entitled Majestic Flair all music by composer Chan Ka Nin on the CBC label and a disc of D'Indy and Bruch on the Naxos label, the entire set of Luciano Berio's Sequenzas has be released on the Naxos label. Mr. Valdepeñas has recently been appointed conductor of the Young Artist Performance Academy Orchestra of The Royal Conservatory of
Music in Toronto

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