Ted Lane's Musician Friends

Good Musicians/Good Friends
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Vanguel Tangarov, my good friend from Bulgaria.

He is working on his Doctors Degree at the University of Texas and serves as principal clarinetist of the Opera Orchestra in Austin, Texas

Thomas Aber

Richard Stoltzman

Jon Van Beekum

Richard Hancock

Ted Lane& Richard HancockCathy Ogram
Richard MacDowell

Ted Lane & Bruce Dinkins

Ted Lane & Tony Flint
(1976-Spoletto Music Festival,
Spoletto, Italy)

Tony Flint is a world class violinist and concertmaster of several prestigious orchestras. You can find him performing in Germany, Switzerland and Brazil, to name a few country's. We were both best of friends having performed together at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy and Spoleto Charleston (1976-77) Tony found my web page most recently. Sure was great to hear from him. The photo below was taken in 1976 in Spoleto Italy. Ted Lane & Tony Flint

Not just a friend, but my Grandfather, Claude Lane.
This photo was taken in 1988 two years before he passed away.

Ken Bell is one very fantastic Horn Player, We served as principals of the Charleston Symphony (South Carolina) and we founded the Charleston Woodwind Quintet. We also served together at the Spoleto Festival (Charleston and Italy)
Ken is still very busy performing and composing. He performs with the Baltimore Symphony.

Lee Bracegirdle
Associate Principal French Horn
Sydney, Australia

Lee Bracegirtle is a "World Class" musician. He performs as Associate Principal Horn with the Sydney, Australia, Symphony. Lee was my very good friend while we were students at Juilliard. He is now considered to be a very fine conductor and composer. Sure glad I found his web site!

To find two great web pages for Lee go:
http://www.amcoz.com.au/comp/b/lbrace.htm
and
http://maestro.idx.com.au/Lee1.htm

Mitchel Estrin
Professor of Clarinet-Florida University

Mitchell Estrin and I are best of friends. We met as students while attending The Juilliard School. There we both studied with the best; Principal Clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, Stanley Drucker. Mitchell is now Professor of Clarinet at Florida University. He is a "World Class" Clarinetist. I could go on and on about his many accomplishments. Just visit his Web Page at:
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/faculty/faculty/estrin.html

Pianist, Daniel Blumenthal

I met Daniel while studying at Juilliard. What a great musician, pianist and friend. A winner of several competitions and a multitude of recordings to his credit. I'll never forget the wonderful chamber music concerts we performed together at Juilliard.
Check out his web page at:

http://www.iconportal.com/blumenthal.htm

Chris Raphael

Tom Ridenour and Ted LaneTom is at Brook Mays Music and really knows what he's talking about in the Clarinet World. We used to work together at the Leblanc Corporation.

He is a wonderful person and a very fine clarinetist.

Last modified on:
Sunday, May 6, 2007