Thomas Labadorf

Clarinetist Thomas Labadorf completed a 24-year career in the United States Coast Guard Band performing solos in concerts across the United States. He has played the principal clarinet with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestras for the past ten years and frequently performs as principal clarinetist with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. He has soloed with many Connecticut orchestras and bands performing the works of Bassi, Britten, Copland, Debussy, Mozart, Nielson, Rossini, and Weber; and he has premiered his own transcription of Jorge Calandrelli's Concerto for Jazz Clarinet with the Coast Guard.

Mr. Labadorf is professor of applied clarinet at Central Connecticut State University and Connecticut College in New London. He received his Bachelor of Music and a Certificate of Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, a Master of Music in orchestral conducting from the University of Connecticut, and he is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Connecticut.

Mr. Labadorf can be heard on Albany Records with the Connecticut Trio performing music of Ezra Laderman, and on Nimbus Alliance performing as principal clarinetist with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in symphonic works by William Walton. Thomas Labadorf Website.