Andrew Michael Simon an American clarinetist, is principal clarinet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra , is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra, under the name Sino-British Orchestra, it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957, and became a professional orchestra in 1974 under the funding...

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He made his debut in the Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 Recital (Weill) Hall in 1989, after winning the Artists International Young Musicians Auditions Clarinet Award.

He is noted as one of the few clarinetists that has been performing the original 1948 version of the Copland Clarinet Concerto

Clarinet Concerto (Copland)

Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto was written between 1947 and 1949, although a first version was already available in 1948. This composition is also sometimes referred to as the Concerto for Clarinet, Strings and Harp...

. In fact, it was with this concerto that he made his Australian concerto debut in 2000, giving the Australian premiere of the original version of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop is an American conductor and violinist. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.In 2012, Alsop will replace Yan Pascal Tortelier as principal conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra....

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External links

• Andrew Simon web site