Jenny strikes up! Ernst Krenek: Chamber music with clarinet

Vandoren Artist-Clinician Dr. Jenny Maclay enjoys a diverse career as a clarinet soloist, recitalist, orchestral player, chamber musician, pedagogue, and blogger. In 2021, she was the Visiting Instructor of Clarinet at Brandon University (Canada) and was Visiting Lecturer of Clarinet at Iowa State University in 2020. Online, she is known as Jenny Clarinet, where she created her eponymous popular blog, and she is also the Social Media Coordinator for the International Clarinet Association.
In addition to teaching and performing, Jenny is also interested in travelling and researching clarinet cultures around the world. To date, she has visited and performed in over 30 countries, and she enjoys meeting other clarinetists during her travels. Recently, she was selected by the Council of Faroese Artists as an artist-in-residence in Tjørnuvík, Faroe Islands, where she performed and promoted clarinet compositions by Faroese composers. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence Lower Austria, and she is studying the clarinet compositions of Ernst Krenek and his wife Gladys Nordenstrom.

Julia Kainz received her musical education at the Music School Gmünd and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (diplomas in concert and IGP violin with focus on piano). She also attended master classes in baroque violin and viola.
Active chamber music activities and performances with various orchestras, including the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, have taken her to various European countries, China, South America and the USA.
Since 2009, Julia Kainz has been teaching violin and viola at the Krems Music School, where she also works as an ensemble leader and accompanist. As a freelance musician, she can be heard in various chamber music formations, in the Franz Lehár Orchestra, the Divertimento Viennese Orchestra, as a substitute in the Baden Stage Orchestra, and in projects in the genres of early music, Schrammel music, world music and ethnojazz.

Saverio Ruol Ruzzini was born in Venice (Italy) and studied violin and viola at the Conservatory "B. Marcello" in Venice and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His active chamber music career as violist of the Joseph Roth Quartet and the I. Pleyel Quartet led him to numerous concerts in Hungary, Germany, Italy and Austria.
He played in the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milan under renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Eliau Imbal, Gary Bertini and many others and as viola principal in the Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma under the direction of Lorin Maazel, as well as Zubin Mehta, M. Rostropovich, Eliau Imbal, Juri Temirkanov, Charles Pretre and many others. Since 2006 he has played numerous concerts and CD recordings with the ensemble "Accademia Allegro Vivo" and as a substitute with the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler.
Since 2010 he has been teaching violin and viola at various music schools in Lower Austria, including Sieghartskirchen, Korneuburg and Purkersdorf, since 2015 he has been in charge of the violin class at the W.A. Mozart Music School in Horn and since 2016 the violin class at the Ludwig Ritter von Köchel Music School in Krems. He is also passionate about playing Austrian folk music with the "Anzbacher Tanzgeiger".

Born in Córdoba, Argentina. Studied in Argentina, USA and Vienna. Concert and IGP studies at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Participation in various chamber music and orchestra ensembles including Orquesta Juvenil de Córdoba, South Dakota State Orchestra, Jeunesse Musicales World Orchestra, Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, Ensemble Pierrot Lunaire Vienna, Vienna Mozart Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Volksoper Vienna etc. Concert activity in Asia, USA, Latin America and Europe. Teaching activities Music School Poysdorf (2007 - 2013), Music School Staatz (2007 - 2013), since 2008 Music School Korneuburg and since 2013 Music School Krems.

Barbara Datler (formerly Lancaricova), was born in Bratislava (Slovakia). She studied piano at the Bratislava Conservatory in the class of Prof. Tatiana Lenková-Hurová. During this time, she won the 2nd prize at a piano competition of the conservatories in Slovakia. She then studied piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. Jürg von Vintschger, who introduced her not only to traditional classical music but also to the diversity of modern piano music. During her studies, Barbara Datler won several prizes at piano competitions, including the 3rd prize at the "Stefano Marizza" piano competition in Trieste (Italy) and the 1st prize with violinist Yoo-Ji Kim at the "Nuoro Euromediterranea" chamber music competition in Sardinia (Italy). She attended master classes with Lazar Bermann and Prof. Noel Flores.
During her studies she formed the saxophone/piano duo Sándor Rigó/Barbara Lancaricova, which played at several music festivals in Slovakia and Hungary, as well as at Bartók Radio Budapest. They recorded two CDs "Classical Music for Saxophone and Piano from the XX Th. Century" (Fon Trade Music) and "Paul Bonneau, Paul Creston - Pieces for Saxophone & Piano" (Hungaroton).
After her master's degree in concert performance and a break, she was still left with a great desire to play jazz and pop piano and began studying popular music at the I-POP of MDW, graduating with honours in 2018. Currently Barbara Datler lives with her family in Vienna and teaches piano at the Musikschule Krems.