Canada

Canadian clarinetist Jana Starling is a nationally and internationally active performer and teacher. She is invited as a performer/teacher at numerous institutions and festivals across North and South America and China, a regular instructor at the International Music Camp (Peace Gardens, CAN/USA), and is the co-founder and faculty member at the Lift Clarinet Academy, an innovative summer clarinet program.

She plays E-flat clarinet with Ironwood Trio, an ensemble dedicated to expanding and performing literature for the Eb/Bb/bass clarinet trio and Bb clarinet in LightBreak, a clarinet multimedia duo that stretches the boundaries of the recital stage.

Starling currently has 2 solo CD’s, Mythos (2011) and Inflexion (2006), which contain premiere recordings of notable works. Reviewed in The Clarinet journal, Starling is hailed as “a wonderful player…musically sensitive …you will not be disappointed!”.

She is an Associate Professor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University (Ontario, Canada) and her teachers have been Ron Goddard, Connie Gitlin and Robert Spring.

Jana Starling is a Buffet-Crampon and Gonzalez Reeds artist.