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Texas State > College of Fine Arts & Communication > School of Music > Faculty/Staff > Faculty Bios > David Pino

David Pino

Dr. David Pino, clarinetist, has performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician all his life and in several countries of the world. He has made two recordings of music for clarinet and piano with the Orion company with the pianist Frances Mitchum Webb, and he is the author of the well-known book The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing, first published by Scribner's of New York, and later published again as a real classic in its field, by Dover Publications. (This book, from Dover, can be ordered from any good bookstore, or over the internet.)

Dr. Pino was a student of the late Keith Stein at Michigan State University for fifteen years, beginning at the age of eight, and played second clarinet (with Stein on first clarinet) in the Lansing Symphony Orchestra during his high school and early college years. His Woodwind Specialist Master's degree required him to play recitals on all of the woodwind instruments, his later doctorate was in Clarinet Performance, and he has won three national First Prizes as a composer.

Dr. Pino has performed and lectured at music conservatories and clarinet symposia in several countries, and has been Professor of Clarinet at Texas State for many years. In 1996 he founded the David Pino Chamber Ensemble to perform music written for clarinet, strings, and piano (all together, and in smaller combinations, both), and this ensemble played a concert tour of Switzerland in 1998. Currently Dr. Pino is writing a long series of articles in The Clarinet magazine on the Keith Stein approach to playing and teaching. He is also working again with Dover, this time toward the publication of many of his transcriptions of art songs (originally for voice and piano), for clarinet and piano.

For anyone interested in the specifics of the clarinet-playing equipment used by Dr. Pino, he offers this description: The main keywork sections of his clarinets in B-flat and A are from Vintage Model grenadilla-wood instruments made by the Buffet-Crampon Company of Paris, and were obtained in February of 2000. The German-style clarinet bells he uses were custom-made by Rene Hagmann of Geneva, Switzerland, his hard-rubber mouthpiece and nylon barreljoints were made by Robert Scott of Lansing, Michigan, and Dr. Pino makes his own reeds, held in place with a shoestring ligature.

One more very important point: While Dr. Pino really loves that particular collection of equipment to use for himself, he does not require any of his students to use the same equipment! Most of his students play on the conventional but excellent Buffet R-13 clarinets, with good mouthpieces and barreljoints, along with good commercially made reeds and ligatures. He prides himself, too, in being a truly caring teacher, helping each of his students in his or her own way to make the transition from being a new freshman to being fully prepared to join the music profession after graduation, as either a teacher or performer or both.