Shannon Scott, Clarinet
Shannon Scott, Clarinet
Shannon Scott is Assistant Professor of clarinet, music history and clarinetist for Solstice Wind Quintet at Washington State University School of Music. In summers Scott teaches and performs as principal clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Since moving to the Northwest, Scott has performed with the Spokane, Walla Walla and Washington-Idaho Symphonies. Scott taught clarinet and Survey of Music in Fall 2006 and performed with the Northwest Wind Quintet at the University of Idaho. From 1988 to 2006 she was principal clarinetist of the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Opera Orchestra and the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. Before joining the Tulsa Philharmonic she served as associate principal clarinet of the Orchestra of the Opera of Lyon, second clarinet for the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago, and played in the Marlboro Music Festival, where she participated in Music from Marlboro tours and recorded for the Marlboro Recording Society. Scott holds degrees from Juilliard, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Conservatoire Regional Marcel Dupre, Yale University and Northwestern University. Member of the Scott-Garrison Duo (flute and clarinet) with husband Leonard Garrison, their CDs Barn Dances and Perennials are on the Albany Records label.