Janice L Minor

Dr. Janice L. Minor enjoys an active career as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral player, clinician, and music educator. She has performed and appeared in a wide variety of venues and festivals throughout the United States and Europe including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Rococo Theater in Schwetzingen Germany, the Puccini Theater in Italy, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Aspen, Staunton and Music at Penns Woods Music Festivals, as well as the Lucca Music Festival in Italy and the Saarburger Serenaden: International Music Festival in Germany. National and international conference appearances include performances and clinics at the International Clarinet Association/ClarinetFest, the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, the National Flute Association, the International Double Reed Society Conference, and The Midwest Clinic: An International Band and Orchestra Conference.

Solo appearances with orchestras/wind ensembles include the United States Army Europe Band in Heidelberg, Germany, the Lucca Festival Orchestra in Lucca, Italy, the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” the Cincinnati Eighteenth Century Ensemble, and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral player, she has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops, Cincinnati Opera, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Opera Roanoke, Sinfonia da Camera (Champaign, Illinois) and performed on soundtracks for The Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

A native of Long Island, New York, Dr. Minor began her formal clarinet studies attending the Juilliard School of Music Preparatory Division. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York-Purchase College where she studied with Ben Armato of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She graduated from Northwestern University with a double Master of Music degree, receiving high honors, Pi Kappa Lambda, in music performance and music education, where she studied with Clark Brody and Robert Marcellus. She worked with Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetists, Larry Combs and John Bruce Yeh, while earning an Artist Diploma from DePaul University. She was awarded the teaching assistantship at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree studying with Ronald de Kant.

Dedicated to her role as artist-teacher, Dr. Minor is a passionate educator who is frequently invited to present master classes and clinics throughout the country and abroad. She is currently Associate Professor of Clarinet at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has a successful private clarinet studio in the Chicagoland area. Her previous teaching positions include Clarinet Professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the Saarburger Serenaden: International Music Festival and School in Saarburg, Germany, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Janice L. Minor is a Buffet Crampon U.S.A. and D’Addario performing artist-clinician performing exclusively on Buffet Crampon clarinets and D’Addario woodwind products. She is a music reviewer for The Clarinet, the official journal of the International Clarinet Association.