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Jesse Krebs
Appearing in solo recitals, chamber concerts, and as a concerto soloist, Jesse Krebs has performed throughout the United States and Costa Rica. He joined the music faculty at Truman State University in 2005. In addition to instructing the clarinet studio and directing the Truman Clarinet Choir, he teaches Perspectives in Jazz and Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint. Before coming to Kirksville, he was the Clarinet Instructor and the Director of Chamber Winds at Bainbridge College in Georgia, and served on the summer faculty for the Cultural American Music Program in the Florida Keys.
Dr. Krebs has been featured as a concerto soloist with the North Carolina and Central Florida Symphony Orchestras, and has performed in the clarinet sections of the Greensboro, Fayetteville, Tallahassee, Quincy, and Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestras. In 2002, he was one of three Americans selected as a semifinalist for the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition and competed in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a Doctor of Music in clarinet performance from the Florida State University, where he was a graduate teaching assistant and played under the baton of guest conductors Krzysztof Penderecki and Bobby McFerrin. He received a Master of Music from the University of North Texas and Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he won the university’s concerto competition in 1999. His clarinet teachers include Frank Kowalsky, James Gillespie, Kelly Burke and Curtis Craver.