Dr. Gary June is a clarinetist and educator based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches clarinet at Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Valley State University. He has previously served on faculty at Saginaw Valley State University and North Central College. As an orchestral musician, he is Principal Clarinet of the Holland Symphony Orchestra and the 2nd/Eb clarinetist of the Flint and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestras. He likewise regularly plays with orchestras such as the Grand Rapids Symphony, the West Michigan Symphony, and Sinfonia da Camera. As a committed educator of primary and secondary-aged students, he has a thriving studio of young clarinetists, and he spends summers teaching and playing at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Gary June is also an active chamber musician and soloist. As a member of the Amosa Duo, he has given recitals at universities throughout the United States and at the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago, IL. In 2018 the Amosa Duo toured many of Taiwan’s most prestigious concert halls, including the National Recital Hall in Tapei. As a member of Grand Valley’s faculty wind quintet, Grand Valley Winds, he traveled in July 2018 to the Czech Republic to perform as a featured ensemble in the Janáček Music Festival. Other recent engagements include performing Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie with the Holland Symphony Orchestra, Copland’s Appalachian Spring at the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival, and faculty recitals at GVSU, SVSU, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Dr. June has given master classes at universities such as the Janáček Conservatory and Ostrava University in the Czech Republic, the National Tainan University in Taiwan, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Austin Peay State University. He holds degrees from Grand Valley State University and the University of Colorado-Boulder, and completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he wrote his thesis on contemporary Finnish clarinet music. His principal teachers include Dr. Arthur Campbell, Daniel Silver, and J. David Harris.
