David Shea

David Shea serves as Professor of Clarinet at Texas Tech University and on the music faculty at Rocky Ridge Summer Music in Estes Park, CO.  He also serves as Principal Clarinetist for the Lubbock Symphony and Abilene Philharmonic Orchestras.  Shea has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and Chile.  As a member of Trio Montecino, he has given performances throughout Europe, South America and the United States, and has recorded two critically acclaimed CDs with the trio for Eroica Classical Recordings.  Shea has performed chamber music concerts and conducted master classes at the Vale Venito Music Festival in Brazil, El Sistema Chamber Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela and US Embassy in Santiago Chile.  He has also performed at the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfests in Lawrence (KS), Austin, Chicago, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Kansas City and Lawrence, as well as the OU Clarinet Symposium and Klarinetstage, Belgium

As a teacher, Dr. Shea has been invited to do master classes throughout the United States, Europe and South America, and has been invited three times to teach as a sabbatical replacement at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.  He is a member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy and a recipient of the Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Teaching Award.  His teachers have been Howard Klug, Lawrence McDonald, Eli Eban, James Campbell and Ronald Phillips.