From Jonathan and Stuart Clark, November 2024.
Stuart and I would like to express our appreciation for your wonderful clarinets, mouthpieces and new bell design, which continue to inspire us both in session and live performance work here in Los Angeles.
We have recorded with the Elite model and Peter Eaton mouthpieces exclusively on numerous episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks throughout the past few seasons.
The Elite clarinet's intonation, beauty of tone and flexibility is breathtaking, and makes working as a section so easy.
The following photo was taken after the final scoring session of Star Trek: Lower Decks on October 7, 2024 at Sony Pictures.
We both hope you are doing well and thank you again for all that you do for our Hollywood clarinet community!
Los Angeles-based clarinetist Jonathan Sacdalan maintains an active career as recording artist, orchestral and chamber musician, and music educator. Currently he serves as principal clarinetist with the Southeast Symphony, and has also appeared with the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony, the Riverside Philharmonic, and the San Bernardino Symphony.
As a studio musician, Jonathan has contributed to soundtracks for film and television, including movies such as Avatar 2: The Way of Water, Encanto, The Lost City, Predator: Prey, The Bubble, The Adam Project, Kimi, Christopher Robin, Orion and the Dark, Rise, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Peter Pan & Wendy, Leave the World Behind, Nope, Family Switch, and Quiz Lady.
His television credits include the soundtracks for Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Orville, Fargo, The Great, The Umbrella Academy, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Only Murders In the Building, and Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Christmas Cabin Fever, among many other projects.
He has recorded for video game franchises such as League of Legends and Genshin Impact, and he can also be heard on recent albums by Barbara Streisand, Michael Bublé, and Seth MacFarlane, as well as on theme park ride soundtracks at California and Tokyo Disneyland.
Beyond performance, Jonathan enjoys serving as a mentor to the next generation of musicians. For the past three years he has partnered with the Rise Diversity Orchestra, where he helps a group of ethnically diverse young musicians prepare for a career in the studio industry. He also provides no-cost music education to urban youth in Los Angeles through Harmony Project, Musicians at Play Foundation, and the LA Philharmonic Youth Orchestra LA Initiative, where, for the past decade, he has helped empower underserved communities by supporting the endeavors of numerous first-generation college students. As a guest artist and clinician, he has given masterclasses both locally and abroad, including for the Los Angeles and Ventura School Districts, Cerritos College, Cal State Fullerton, and at the Superior School of Music of Lisbon, Portugal.
Dr. Sacdalan holds a DMA and MM in clarinet performance from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BM in clarinet performance from California State University, Fullerton.
"I began playing on the Elite B-flat and A clarinets in 2023 following a recommendation from my colleagues, Ralph Williams and Stuart Clark. The Elite clarinets make it easy to capture the beauty, warmth, and depth of tone that we artists strive for on both the concert stage and in recording sessions for cinema. Playing on Peter’s clarinets has made blending and tuning with others so easy, and it is unparalleled to anything else I have ever played on. Thank you for the wonderful clarinets, Peter!"
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