April Johannesen is a versatile professional musician whose musical endeavors spreads across a vast array of genres and styles. April Johannesen is the bass clarinetist with Wil Swindler's Elevenet. With a very active freelance orchestral career, April performs regularly with the Colorado Symphony, Colorado Ballet, Opera Colorado, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Boulder Philharmonic, Arvada Center, Greeley Philharmonic, Cheyenne Symphony, Breckenridge Music Festival and National Repertory Orchestra. She is the Orchestra Personnel Manager of Colorado Ballet. April served as the 2nd clarinetist with the Fort Collins Symphony for 13 years. She has toured and recorded numerous times with the Air Force Academy Band. She has also toured with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players. April received her Masters in Music Performance from the Brooklyn College Conservatory. An active doubler, April plays and teaches all of the woodwind instruments: clarinets, flutes, saxophones and double reeds. She can be heard on the commercially available recordings, Space Bugs and Universe B with Wil Swindler’s Elevenet on the Origin Records label and A Gothic Folktale, Winter and Dust with the Jesse Manley Band.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM US EST