Eastern Iowa Clarinet Camp

Dr. Shannon Scott is the instructor of clarinet and History of Music and clarinetist for Solstice Woodwind Quintet at Washington State University School of Music. In the summers Dr. Scott teaches and performs as principal clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. As part of the Scott-Garrison Duo (flute and clarinet) with husband Leonard Garrison, Dr. Scott performs and is active in commissioning new music for the ensemble.   Since moving to the Northwest, Dr. Scott has performed with the Spokane, Walla Walla and Washington-Idaho Symphonies.  Before joining the School of Music faculty, Dr. Scott taught clarinet and Survey of Music in Fall 2006 and performed with the Northwest Winds Woodwind Quintet at the University of Idaho. From 1988 to 2006 she served as principal clarinetist of the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Opera Orchestra and the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. While in Tulsa Dr. Scott taught clarinet at the University of Tulsa, Oral Roberts University, Northeastern State University and Tulsa Community College.  Dr. Scott holds degrees from Juilliard, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Conservatoire Regional Marcel Dupre, Yale University and Northwestern University.  Her major clarinet teachers were Robert Marcellus, Keith Wilson and Stanley Drucker.  Before joining the Tulsa Philharmonic she was 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.