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 Jerome Summers has acquired widespread recognition and critical acclaim as one of Canada's most accomplished and vital musicians. He was born and educated in British Columbia, where he became a member of the Vancouver Symphony and CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestras. After acquiring graduate degrees in composition from the University of British Columbia, he began studies in conducting at the prestigious Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, under Kazuyoshi Akiyama and Morihiro Okabe. A versatile musician, he has established a distinguished career as a conductor, composer, and clarinetist.
Since locating in Ontario, Maestro Summers has appeared with many of Canada's leading orchestras, and has broadcast frequently on CBC national radio. His conducting activities have embraced a broad spectrum of styles and genres, including opera and ballet productions, symphonic masterworks, world premiere performances of new works, pops, theatre pieces, recording sessions and chamber orchestra performances throughout North America and Western Europe.
He currently serves as Music Director of thriving orchestras in Southern Ontario, Michigan, and Toronto and frequently appears on the podium for Orchestras London and Windsor.
As a clarinetist, he has performed with many of Canada's major symphony orchestras as well as with internationally renowned chamber and solo performers. Prior to joining the Performance Faculty at The University of Western Ontario, he served as clarinetist in the Vancouver Opera Association, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New Music Society of Vancouver, Early Music Society of Vancouver (recorders and other Renaissance instruments), the Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestras, National Ballet of Canada Tours, New York Joffrey Ballet (soloist), Cassenti Players of Vancouver, Cambini Wind Quintet, numerous Hollywood Sound Track recordings and commercial recordings.
More recently, he has appeared internationally with such ensembles and artists as: The Canadian Opera Company, Purcell Quartet, Audubon Quartet, Los Angeles Camerata, oboist Alex Klein, bassoonist Charles Ullery, cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, violinists Eduard Minevich, Joseph Lanza, and pianists William Aide, Ronald Turini, Jane Hayes, Janina Fialkowska, and Robert Kortgaard.
Jerome is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, and appears regularly as clarinetist with Orchestra London, and has served frequently as acting principal for the orchestras in London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, and Windsor.
His first CD recording, Songs of the Nightingale, was released to critical acclaim in 1994. A second recording, Flight of the Nightingale with pianist Robert Kortgaard was released in 2001 (re-released in 2008 on Cambria Master Recordings label). the third recording in the 'Nightingale' series was released in 2008. The Nightingale's Rhapsody for clarinet and string orchestra features five newly-commissioned works which focus mainly on the lyrical capabilities of the instrument. The internationally-acclaimed disc is available on the Cambria label.
International Artists Concerto Collaborations
William Aide, pianist
Peter Katin, pianist
Janina Fialkowska, pianist
Ronald Turini, pianist
Larry Larson, trumpeter
Kevin McMillan, tenor
Theodore Baerg, baritone
Darryl Edwards, tenor
Michael Schade, tenor
Norbert Kraft, guitarist
Erika Raum, violinist
Eduard Minevich, violinist
Patricia Green, mezzo soprano
Robert Kortgaard, pianist
Scott St. John, violinist
Sheila McCarthy, narrator
David Keeley, narrator
Yuri Mazurkevitch, violinist
Yuli Turofsky, cellist
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, cellist
Ronald George, hornist
Damian Bursill-Hall, flutist
Alexander Tselyakov, pianist
Michael Burgess, tenor
Mark Dubois, tenor
Mary Lou Fallis, soprano
Joseph Lanza, violinist
True North Brass quintet
Anita Krause, mezzo soprano
Ian Sadler, organist
Sara Davis Buechner, pianist
Robert Silverman, pianist
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, violinist
Denise Djokic, cellist
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