CLARINET

Dr. Alexandra Doyle is an adjunct professor at Sinclair College and Thomas More University, and she is the clarinet instructor at the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, Ohio. She is also the clarinet teacher for the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance’s after-school Q the Music program. Alex earned her graduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and her bachelor’s degrees from the University of Houston. This is Alex’s fourth season with TFO, and this year she became the festival’s marketing director. She is excited to make music once again with her partner-in-crime, Daron Kirsch.

Logan Miller graduated from Texas Tech University with a BM in Clarinet Performance and recently finished a MM in Clarinet Performance at Southern Methodist University. While at Texas Tech he was involved in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the undergraduate clarinet quartet. At SMU he is a member of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Meadows Wind Ensemble, Meadows Opera Orchestra, and chamber ensembles. He keeps an active studio in the DFW area. His major teachers include Dr. David Shea, Profs. Paul Garner, and Stephen Ahearn. This Fall he will begin a Performance Diploma at SMU under the direction of Stephen Ahearn.

Matthew Svec is a clarinetist recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He enjoys playing klezmer, music by Latin American composers and new music. He has taken first prize in concerto competitions of the North Carolina Symphony, the Alexandria Symphony, UNC Bands and others. Beyond music, Matthew has a love for language and cultural exchanges. He has studied abroad in Munich, Germany and Quito, Ecuador. As a Fulbright recipient, Matthew will travel to Budapest, Hungary to study at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music after graduation.

Dr. Larkin Sanders is a native of Branson, Missouri, and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri where she is the clarinet instructor at Washburn University, owns the Clever Clarinetist (a clarinet specialty store), is the ExecutiveArtistic Director of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra, is the utility clarinetist for the Topeka Symphony Orchestra, and performs frequently with a variety of other ensembles. Dr. Sanders is an Henri Selmer Paris, D’Addario & Co., Brian Corbin Clarinet Products, and Silverstein Pro Team Artist. In addition to her activities as a clarinetist, teacher, and administrator, Dr. Sanders is also a composer and author of several books and self-publishes her original compositions and clarinet methods.

Dr. Andi Bragiel (she/her) is a bassoonist and music educator based in Cincinnati, OH. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she holds a B.S.Ed. in Music Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an M.M. in Bassoon Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a D.M.A. in Bassoon Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dr. Bragiel has appeared with the Altoona Symphony, Johnstown Symphony, Greensboro Choral Society, Queen City Chamber Orchestra, Queen City Opera, and Dayton Philharmonic. She currently teaches elementary general music and maintains an active freelance career.

Bassoonist Dana Brink enjoys a varied musical life in West Virginia, where she freelances and teaches bassoon and music theory at West Virginia University’s Community Music Program. Dana holds degrees in bassoon performance from the Yale School of Music and Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Frank Morelli, George Sakakeeny, and John Hunt. An advocate for music by living composers and diversifying the canon, she is the creator behind Ten Reeds or Less, a YouTube channel dedicated to recording underperformed works for solo and chamber bassoon, and a co-founder of the Bridge Bassoon Duo.

A native Texan, Robyn Watson began playing bassoon at the age of 10. She received her BM-Music Technology from Belmont University, MM-Performance from the University of Houston, and in May 2022 earned a Performer’s Diploma from SMU. Robyn has been a part of music festivals in the US, Canada, and France. She has been a preferred substitute musician for orchestras all over Texas, Louisiana, and Washington, and has performed at both the International Double Reed Society and Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium conferences. This past August, she relocated to Seattle, officially joining Trio de Bois, an all-female reed trio.