The Eclectic Clarinet is a method consisting entirely of works in various styles and of increasing difficulty, specifically composed or arranged for clarinet.
Unlike methods that aim to be exhaustive and end up being long and tedious, it is divided into short volumes containing essential examples, allowing students to enjoy seeing their progress reflected in regular changes of booklet.
No performance instructions other than those of the composer accompany these scores, on the understanding that those of a teacher who listens to their student will always be the most appropriate. Thus, if they deem it useful, teachers will be free to devise small preparatory exercises tailored to the performance of each piece.
If our progress proves too rapid or if there is a need for greater stylistic and technical variety, it will be easy to supplement the repertoire in this collection with that of an equivalent level but different aesthetic, offered by another of the thematic methods available from STRADIVARIUS Editions.
For more in-depth technical work, corresponding scale and study books are also available.

Audio material

Each score – sometimes accompanied by a second clarinet part for the teacher – comes with three audio tracks:
a : Demonstration track to discover and familiarise yourself with the piece.
b : Track of the clarinet part alone for easy listening and study. Clicks are added to mark the empty bars and beats.
c : Accompaniment track for rehearsal preparation, practice at home or public performances.
Please note that all the scores for these instrumental accompaniments are available separately on our website.

Frédéric Cellier

Encouraged by Jean Françaix, who hailed him as ‘an excellent musician and tireless arranger’, Frédéric Cellier wrote a number of pieces of light music and a considerable number of arrangements in all styles and for all instruments acclaimed by numerous personalities in the music world.
Along his university studies (DEA in musicology, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne), Frédéric Cellier was awarded three first prizes and a development prize at the CNR of Nice and won first prize at the International Competition of Musical Execution - soloist category – of Stresa (Italy).
He is the laureate of the Fondation de France and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and accredited teacher at the CNR of Nice, the CNR of Marseille, and at the CRR Olivier Messiaen of Avignon (France).
Frédéric Cellier is the interpreter of Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for clarinet Bb and piano with Jean-Michel Damase, Jean Françaix or Gabriel Tacchino, but also performs his own version for clarinet, piano and string orchestra of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in blue for Wynton Marsalis or under the baton of Adrian Gershwin, grandson of the composer.