Clarinet with Mark Y.

For over more than 20 years I have had many successful students, who have enjoyed playing and studying with me. Teaching is a life-giver for me--I enjoy introducing students to the joys of different musical ideas, concepts, and ways that they can advance on their instrument. Things that I have enjoyed learning and playing over the years, that I can pass on to them to explore and enjoy. I hold both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Music, and have taught as an adjunct on the college level, high school, and privately. On the college level, I have taught clarinet, saxophone, and flute at three colleges, a Woodwind Methods class for five years, developed jazz ensembles, and developed and procured music for woodwind trios and saxophone quartets. I have played professionally in these settings; jazz, symphonic, pit orchestra, and general business entertainment freelance as a woodwinds specialist. PERFORMING experience includes; Free-lance Musician, woodwind instruments, Minneapolis/St. Paul Contracting Musical Groups (own business) Free-lance Musician, woodwind instruments, Central Florida Jazz Quartet, Seaworld Renaissance Hotel, Orlando, Florida Little Big Band Music Productions (own business) Conventions- Orlando area, Scandinavian World Cruises Disney MGM Studio Sax Quintet Wayne Newton- U.S. and Canadian tour Grand Floridian Hotel Band Melissa Manchester- Florida tour Contractor of Musicians- Premier Cruise Lines, Cape Canaveral, Florida Princess Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ’96-‘99, Florida Orchestra- Tampa, Cleveland Civic Orchestra, Ohio Ballet, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Montreaux Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival RECORDINGS "The You In Me" -Solo Album --2000 GMO: Live in Europe—1980 MEMBERSHIPS --American Federation of Musicians TEACHING experience includes; (Sabbatical) College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University St Joseph, Minnesota –Instructor of Applied Woodwinds North Central University-Minneapolis, MN Adjunct Instructor –Woodwind Methods, Applied Clarinet, Saxophone Crown College-St. Bonifacius, MN Adjunct Instructor –Jazz Ensemble, Woodwind Ensembles, Clarinet, Saxophone College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University St Joseph/Collegeville, Minnesota –Instructor of Applied Woodwinds- Adjunct Hopkins High School –Group Instruction St. Louis Park High School –Private Instruction My Music Store–Golden Valley, Minnesota Private Instruction Private instrumental Instruction, Orlando, Florida University of Akron- Graduate Assistant Jazz Studies Cleveland Supplementary Educational Center -Cleveland, Ohio Individual and group instruction in music My educational experience includes; Master of Music, Performance Clarinet (Concentration: Woodwinds) University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; Bachelor of Music, Performance Saxophone, Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Berea, Ohio