Dr. Timothy Bonenfant
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Dr. Timothy Bonenfant Associate Professor of Music Single Reeds D.M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas M.F.A., California Insititute of the Arts M.M., B.M., University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office:CARR 217 Phone: (325) 942-2085, Ext. 231 E-Mail: tbonenfant@angelo.edu |
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Timothy Bonenfant is Associate Professor of Clarinet/Saxophone at Angelo State University, where he also directs the Angelo State University Jazz Ensemble, clarinet choir and saxophone quartet. He is a member of the Mesquite Trio, the Tempest Trio (soprano, clarinet and piano specializing in music by women composers), the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra, and the West Texas Jazz Orchestra. He holds degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and California Institute of the Arts. His primary teachers were Alberto Asercion, Felix Viscuglia, William Powell, Raphael Sanders, Marina Sturm, Michael Limoli and Michele Zukovsky.
During his years in Las Vegas, Dr. Bonenfant played with the famed UNLV Jazz Ensemble, directed by Frank Gagliardi. During his time with the jazz ensemble, the band played with Joe Williams, Don Menza, Louis Bellson, Chuck Findley, Marlena Shaw and Carl Fontana.
He is a former member of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. He has also worked with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Abilene Philharmonic, the Boise Symphony Orchestra, the Nevada Opera Theater, and with various musical groups on the Las Vegas Strip. His professional experience also includes playing with such notable performers as Marvin Hamlisch, Tommy Tune, Luciano Pavorotti, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Charlotte Church, Theodore Bikel, Rip Taylor, the Village People, the Moody Blues, Beatlemania, Dudley Moore, David Foster, Sandi Patty and John Duykers.
Dr. Bonenfant has worked with many of the major composers of our time, including John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Walter Blanton, John Cage, Paul Dresher, Morton Feldman, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Steven Horowitz, Libby Larsen, Stephen Mosko, Mel Powell, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Dorrance Stalvey, Eric Whitacre and most significantly, Virko Baley, the subject of Bonenfant’s dissertation. He has premiered over thirty works, many written especially for him, including Virko Baley's Partita No. 4 for clarinets (bass, A, Eb and Bb contrabass) and piano, and Stephen Emmons’ Seaside.
Dr. Bonenfant’s performances can be heard on three recordings. Two of these feature him playing works written especially for him, Those recordings include “San Francisco Chronicled: The Chamber Music of Steven Horowitz 1990-1996” (the composer of the soundtrack to “Super Size Me”), “The Body of a House: Music of Walter Blanton” and “Voyage From The Past,” a recording with Blanton’s small jazz group Dharma.
This past summer, Dr. Bonenfant performed at the International Clarinet Association’s Clarinetfest in Northridge, CA. He performed four works on two separate concerts. Videos of two of those performances are featured below. The first is a world premiere of Virko Baley’s Treny Laments IA for unaccompanied Bb contrabass clarinet. The second features John Bavicchi’s Sonata for unaccompanied clarinet, op. 20.
In his free time, he plays with the Fort Concho Enterprise, a 19th century-era baseball team based in San Angelo, Texas.
