Šarūnas Jankauskas, clarinet guest artist, and Mark Livshits, piano, present a program of compositions by Handel, Blardony, Ran, Jankauskas, Villani-Côrtes, and Sargon.

Clarinetist Šarūnas Jankauskas enjoys a rewarding performance and teaching career. He serves on the faculty at James Madison University, where he was a 2023 recipient of the campus-wide Madison Vision Teaching Award, a recognition that is solely decided by the students.

His performance engagements have taken him through Europe, Canada, Brazil and various regions of the United States. Jankauskas appeared as a concerto soloist with Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Round Rock Symphony, numerous collegiate ensembles and collaborated with St. Petersburg and Jasper String Quartets, Valerie Coleman, Domenico Codispoti, Johan Botes and other accomplished artists. He participated at International Conservatory Week Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), Musicalis Daunia (Italy), SoundSpace at Blanton, Chamber Music at the Barn, KNOB Festival of New Music, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFests®, College Music Society’s National Conference and various composer/new music symposiums. His recent commissioning project focused on works for clarinet in various duo-partnership roles and culminated in Duos, an album released by Soundset Recordings.

Dr. Jankauskas previously taught at Texas Lutheran and Wichita State Universities, in addition to serving as principal clarinetist of the Wichita Symphony. He studied at the Academy of Music and Theatre in his native Lithuania, and, after moving to the U.S., received degrees from Grand Valley State University, Rice University and The University of Texas at Austin. Please visit www.sarunasjankauskas.com for more info.