Through his performances, compositions, and educational presentations around the world, clarinetist and composer Eric Mandat has had a profound influence on the way an entire generation of clarinetists approaches playing their instrument. 

Eric has premiered and performed his works at international festivals across Europe, Asia, and the United States, and he has appeared as soloist with the Latvian National Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Eric is a member of the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW ensemble, and of Tone Road Ramblers, an eclectic sextet specializing in improvisation and experimental music.

As a composer, Eric’s work focuses primarily on solo and chamber pieces for clarinet, exploring the inner galaxies of multiphonics, microtones, and subtle timbral transformations. He is a recipient of multiple Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards for composition, and his music is featured in concerts and recordings by clarinetists throughout the world.

A dedicated and in-demand teacher, Eric Mandat has presented master classes and lectures at more than 100 conservatories and universities around the world, and he regularly appears as guest artist at clarinet-specific events throughout the United States. Together with esteemed colleagues Howard Klug and Steve Cohen, Eric teaches every year at the Indiana University Clarinet Performance Workshop. He also co-authors a performance analysis article series for The Clarinet with friend and colleague Boja Kragulj.

Eric Mandat received his education at the University of North Texas, the Yale School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He is Professor of Music and Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he was the recipient of the 1999 SIUC Outstanding Scholar Award. At SIUC, Eric teaches clarinet and graduate courses in musical analysis.

Eric Mandat is a Buffet Group USA performing artist and clinician.


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Noah Jenkins is a composer and violinist/violist from Oregon, now living in Chicago. His music is inspired by tuning, field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic phenomena, and experiences of deep sound in deep time.

In 2022 Wild Up premiered Spirits Hover as part of the LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival. In 2023 Jenkins developed and premiered After Life (a 40-minute piece with original text for vocalist and ensemble) in Chicago with Après L’Histoire. In 2024 he released Without Persistent Environments (Sawyer Editions), an album of two electroacoustic trombone pieces recorded by Chicago trombonist and composer Riley Leitch. Peter Margasak (Bandcamp) praised the music’s “sustained lines awash in luxurious overtones” and its “focus on the dynamic interaction of sound drifting into eternity.”

In 2025 John Adams will conduct the LA Phil New Music Group in the premiere of Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard, a work for string orchestra, keyboards, and antiphonal percussion, and ~Nois saxophone quartet and Varo String Quartet will premiere Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry in Chicago.

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