Tasha Warren

ABOUT

Tasha Warren, two-time Grammy-nominated recording artist, teacher and international performer, has premiered over one hundred solo clarinet and chamber works throughout the US, Europe, China, South Korea and India. She has recorded with Innova, Alba, and SCI Records, Crystal, and Centaur Records. Her recent album, “Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed” (Bright Shiny Things label), a collaboration with cellist Dave Eggar of newly commissioned and premiered Bass Clarinet and Cello works, earned two 2023 Grammy nominations. Her solo CD, The Naked Clarinet (Crystal Records), has hailed praise in reviews from International Record Review, Fanfare Magazine, The Clarinet Magazine, and others. Her recording chamber works featuring clarinet and strings, Black Lines, was released by Centaur Records in 2016.

Warren is Assistant Professor of Chamber Music at the MSU College of Music and has taught on the music performance faculties of Louisiana State University and the University of Virginia. She is a member of American Modern Ensemble and Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and has served as principal clarinet with the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra and Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, and regularly performs with the Lansing Symphony. She has been the principal clarinet faculty of Mostly Modern Festival since its inception in 2018, and has implemented study abroad programs in Spain, India and Israel, and chamber music programs with the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, the University of Virginia, and the Musical Arts Youth Orchestra. She has served on the adjudication panels of numerous national and international competitions, including Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Henri Selmer Paris International Competition, International Clarinet Association Young Artists, Xi’an Clarinet Competition, China. She holds a DM degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and additional degrees from IUJSoM and the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Tasha Warren performs Selmer Paris clarinets.