David Hite

Bio:

Born in New Straitsville Ohio, David Hite studied clarinet with Fred Weaver, Daniel Bonade and Anthony Gigliotti. In 1941, he enrolled in the Ohio State University School of Music later graduating after he completed his US Army service. In 1972 he completed his Master of Arts Degree in Music, also at Ohio State. During World War II he served in Guam and Okinawa as a band musician. After the war, he played bass clarinet in the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra where he met his first wife, the bassoonist and critic Rosemary Curtin Hite. In addition he performed with the Berkshire Music Festival Orchestra at Tanglewood where he played under Serge Koussevitzky. From 1954 to 1978 he was professor of music at the Capital University Music Conservatory where he founded the Capital University Clarinet Choir. He left Columbus in 1983, to move to New York City, where he specialized in customizing and fine tuning clarinets, working with the leading players of the time. Later he settled in Fort Myers Florida. From the 1940s on, while teaching and playing, Hite also worked continuously on the development of a superior clarinet mouthpiece. With his second wife Jean Hite he founded the J&D Hite Mouthpiece Company in the 1980s. He was internationally recognized for his hand-finished J & D Hite clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces. The David Hite, and later J&D Hite, Premiere Mouthpiece was noted as one of the finest student mouthpieces made, enhancing the abilities of thousands of clarinet players throughout the U.S. The custom-made professional Hite mouthpiece was played by many symphony and band musicians. Following Hite’s death in 2004 in Fort Myers, the Hite mouthpiece is now owned and distributed by the JJ Babbitt Company of Elkhart, Indiana.

Titles:

Arrangements:

– Forty Studies
– Foundation Studies
– ALLEGRO VIVACE (FROM K
– Concerto in B-flat
– DIVERTISSEMENT (OUT-OF
– Largo And Allegro (out-of-print)
– LET ME TELL IT (OUT-OF
– Premiere Rhapsody for Clarinet and Band
1961 – Concertino
1961 – Pavane
1961 – Scherzo
1963 – Allegro Vivace (from K387)
1963 – Sonata in g Minor
1964 – Sonata in a Minor
1964 – Vicarswood
1964 – Etude
1965 – Divertissement
1965 – Finale, Op. 77 No. 1
1966 – Bourree from Third Cello Suite
1966 – Concert Piece
1966 – Adagio and Gigue
1966 – Andante and Scherzo
1966 – Introduction and Rondo
1966 – Serenade, Op. 85, No. 4
1966 – Praeludium and Fugue in d Minor
1966 – Rondo
1966 – Slumber Song
1966 – Ancient Menuet
1966 – Larghetto from Clarinet Quintet, K581
1966 – Adagio and Rondo
1966 – Sonata in F Major
1967 – Menuetto from String Quartet in G Major, K. 387
1967 – Rondo
1968 – Sonatina
1968 and 1996 – Allegro in A minor, Op. 74, No. 3
1988 – Premiere Rhapsody
1988 – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
1988 – Petite Piece (Little Piece)
1988 – POP- Premiere Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
1989 – Concerto No. 3 in Bb
1989 – Foundation Studies
1990 – Adagio and Tarantella
1990 – Concerto No. 3 in Bb for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra
1991 – Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra
1991 – Adagio
1991 – IL CONVEGNO
1991 – Introduction Theme and Variations
1991 – Adagio
1991 – Adagio
1991 – Il Convegno: Divertimento for Two Clarinets and Piano
1991 – Adagio
1991, pub – Introduction, Theme and Variations for Orchestra
1992 – Foundation Studies
1992 – Sicilienne
1992 – Sicilienne
1992 – Adagio
1999 – Three Grand Artistic Duets
2000 – Six Grand Duets
2002 – Studio Progressivo
2002 – Ten Duets from Metodo Progressivo
2003 – Sixteen Etudes