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Daniel Cloutier Biography

Daniel Cloutier
Daniel Cloutier

Daniel Cloutier, born and raised in New England, started playing trombone at age 13. Within three years he was performing professionally in the Norwalk (CT) Symphony Orchestra, beginning a long and colorful orchestral career, including early positions (most of them Principal Chair) in the Bridgeport Civic Orchestra, the Skokie Valley Symphony, the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, the Lake Forest Symphony, and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. More recent positions have included the New Orleans Symphony, the Minnesota Opera, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed on Broadway in a revival production of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby.

Cloutier received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Northwestern University—where he studied with Frank Crisafulli and Arthur Linsner—and his Master’s Degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working on a Doctorate Degree in Music at West Virginia University. His current performance positions are Principal Trombone of the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, and The New Arts Brass. Cloutier is also on the faculty of Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

The list of artists that Cloutier has performed with is notable, including such names as Doc Severinson, Marvin Hamlish, Peter Nero, Bernadette Peters, Monica Mancini, Dawn Upshaw, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Hayman, Neeme Jaarvi, Edo DeWaart, Wolfgang Sawallish, Hans Vonk, Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Erich Kunzel, and Maxim Shostakovich. Cloutier’s discography is equally impressive, including CDs with Thomas Hampson (Copland, Old American Songs), Bobby McFerrin (“Paper Music”), the Minnesota Orchestra (Stravinsky, Rite of Spring), the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Haydn, The Seasons), and the Plymouth Music Series (Edith Smyth, Mass). Cloutier is a strong supporter of new music. He has premiered two trombone solos: Dance to the Music of Time by Wesley Ward (premiered in 2004) and Precipice by Stephen Taylor, premiered in 1991.

Also known as a composer and arranger, Cloutier has composed three trombone quartets, one brass quintet, and one short work for brass choir. His arrangements for trombone quartet, trombone choir, and brass quartet are too numerous to list.

A lover of activity and the outdoors, in his limited spare time Cloutier pursues reading, computers, yoga, hiking, and birdwatching. During the regular year, He and Glenda—his wife of 18 years—live north of Pittsburgh with their son, Mitchell, and two cats.
 
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