Wind Instruments Instructors

Paul Ahlstrand

Jazz Saxophone

Nina Barwell

Flute

Nancy Dimock

Oboe

Nancy Dimock is the principal oboist of the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Springfield and Vermont Symphonies, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and is oboist and English horn player with the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra. She has been featured as a soloist with the Albany Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the Indian Hill Symphony, and has performed the Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe on tour with renowned violinist Jaime Laredo. She has collaborated with such artists as the Jacques Thibaud Trio and the Lydian String Quartet, been an artist at the Carolina Chamber Music Festival, and performs frequently as a guest with ensembles in Boston and throughout New England. During her tenure as principal oboist of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, she performed on the Grammy nominated recording Rosemary Clooney: The Final Concert. Ms. Dimock has also appeared on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, NPR’s Performance Today, and PBS’s Great Performances, and has recorded for Concord, Albany, and Chandos records, and BMOP/Sound.

Rane Moore

Clarinets

During Rane Moore’s 30+ years of teaching clarinet she has developed a three pillar teaching philosophy: exercising compassion and respect for students from many backgrounds who play at different levels, cultivating a culture of intellectual curiosity, and rigor of the craft. She encourages creativity, openness, and fun while exploring the clarinet’s rich body of repertoire.

Rane is also professor of music at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Rane Moore is acclaimed for her insightful and compelling interpretations across a wide spectrum of repertoire, from the classical canon to cutting-edge contemporary works to jazz. An active performer and collaborator, Moore serves as principal clarinetist of both the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and is a regular player with the Boston Ballet Orchestra. She is a member of the award-winning wind quintet The City of Tomorrow, Boston’s new music sinfonietta Sound Icon, and the adventurous bass clarinet collective Improbable Beasts. She is also a founding member of the internationally celebrated Talea Ensemble, which regularly premieres new compositions around the world.

Moore is a frequent guest with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, A Far Cry, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ludovico Ensemble and NOW Ensemble. She has also appeared with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York New Music, Wet Ink Ensemble, Present Music, LoadBang, Alarm Will Sound and many others.

Moore has performed and recorded with legendary saxophonist and MacArthur fellow Steve Coleman, cuban pianist/composer David Virelles, and and will appear on a forthcoming album on Edition Records with Chris Potter and Bill Frisell.

Her recent performances span a wide range of international and U.S. festivals and concert series including Carnegie Hall Presents, the Tanglewood Music Festival, New York Philharmonic Artist’s Spotlight Series, Lincoln Center Festival, Boston’s Celebrity Series, Library of Congress, Newport Jazz Festival, Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, Pharos New Music Festival (Cyprus), ECLAT (Stuttgart), Darmstadt, Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Ojai Music Festival, Time of Music (Finland), Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Jazz à la Villette (Paris), Sacrum Profanum (Krakow), Contempuls (Prague), The Village Vanguard, Time Spans, June in Buffalo, Electric Earth Concerts, Rockport Music, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Town Hall Concerts Seattle, Trinity Wall Street and many others.

She is also the co-Artistic Director of Winsor Music, a beloved Boston-area chamber music series and community outreach organization.

Moore is a Buffet Crampon performing artist.

Philipp A. Stäudlin

Classical Saxophone

Philipp A. Stäudlin a native of Friedrichshafen, Germany, has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles throughout Germany and Switzerland, including the Basel Symphony, the Niederrheinische Synphoniker, and the Bielefeld Orchestra. He has performed hundreds of concerts as a chamber musician in Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and in the U.S., as well as performing at major music festivals in Schlesswig-Holstein, Tanglewood, and at Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival. He was invited to be the representative of German musical culture on a visit to South Korea and Mongolia with Bundespresident Roman Herzog.

Mr. Stäudlin has won many awards as both a saxophone soloist and chamber musician. As the youngest competitor, Stäudlin won First Prize in the Gustav Bumcke International Saxophone Competition. As a member of the New Art Saxophone Quartet he has received First Prize in the Chamber Music Competition of the German Music Foundation and the Artist in Residence newcomer's award with German Radio, in which Jessye Norman received the main award.

Graduated from Basel Musikhochschule in 1999, Stäudlin received a Soloist Diploma with Honors, having studied with Marcus Weiss and Iwan Roth. He was funded by a full scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study with Kenneth Radnofsky at Longy School of Music, where he received an Artist Diploma and the Victor Rosenbaum Medal as the most outstanding student in 2002.

Mr. Stäudlin teaches as applied faculty at Tufts University and at MIT. He is the soprano saxophonist of the Radnofsky Quartet.

During the past few years, Stäudlin premiered more than fifty works. Current CD releases are available on the Ars Musici, Enja, Newport Classics, Albany, Innova, and Navona labels.