Email: cldeniwind@aol.com
Phone: 256-325-9283
Cell: 269-352-2060

Instruments/Capabilities:

• Clarinet
• Saxophone
• Flute

Experience:

Performance

• The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM)
  • The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra
  • Ensembles, Solo, and Chamber Music
• Big Bands
  • The Band in Demand (now Rocket City Jazz)
  • McDonnell Douglas Big Band
• Community Concert Bands
  • Twickenham Winds (performed in European Concert Tour 2006)
  • Madison Community Band
  • Western Michigan University Symphonic Band
  • West Michigan Concert Winds
• Pit orchestras for various musicals
• Rhythm & Blues Bands
• Dixieland Band
• Private parties and weddings

Teaching

• Woodwinds and Piano privately in my home studio, and, in several music stores
• Music Director for three churches
• Conducted Lowrey Organ group classes

Other: B.A. in Clarinet Performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music / Case Western Reserve University. I am a classically trained musician who enjoys playing a large assortment of musical styles. My musical career started in High School, where I first received a scholarship to attend Interlochen Arts Academy and then continued on to be ranked one of the top solo clarinetists in the state of Michigan. At the request of my H.S. Band Director, I began teaching clarinet to other band members when I was in the ninth grade and have spent several years teaching since then. During my attendance at CIM, I attended Masters Classes/Woodwind Chamber Music Workshops at The Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticuit. There I studied with Bert Lucarelli, Robert Bloom, Stephen Maxym, John Wion, and Kalmen Opperman. At CIM I studied clarinet privately with Frank Cohen and Theodore Johnson of The Cleveland Orchestra. I generally spend winters in the south (Huntsville, Alabama) and summers in the north country (Kalamazoo, Michigan). I always look forward to opportunities to play good music with good musicians.