Biography
Clarinetist Tasha Warren has championed contemporary repertoire by giving the first performances of more than one hundred new pieces written for her instrument. She has also maintained an active teaching career at several prominent American universities.
Born in Texas in 1971, she has appeared under the names Tasha Warren Dzubay and Tasha Warren-Yehuda. Warren completed her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies at Indiana University, where she worked with James Campbell and Eli Eban and earned her doctorate in 2007; the previous year she won the school’s concerto competition. She began her faculty career at Louisiana State University before moving to the University of Virginia and later to Michigan State University, where she established study-abroad programs in Spain and India. In addition to her academic posts, she has performed with the Columbus (Indiana) Philharmonic, the Charlottesville Symphony in Virginia, the Jackson and Lansing Symphonies in Michigan, and the American Modern Ensemble, joining the faculty of the ensemble’s Mostly Modern Festival in 2018.
Warren made her first recording in 2005 with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing David Dzubay’s Clarinet Concerto. Four years later she issued the solo album Naked Clarinet on Crystal Records, presenting unaccompanied works by Dzubay, Miklós Rósza, Shulamit Ran, Joan Tower, Guy Yehuda, and Libby Larsen. A dedicated advocate for living composers, she has introduced new clarinet and chamber pieces across the United States, Europe, China, and South Korea. In 2016 she returned to the studio with the chamber recital Black Lines and has appeared on the Innova, Alba, and SCI Records labels. Two tracks from her 2022 release with cellist Dave Eggar, Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed, earned Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Performance.
Born in Texas in 1971, she has appeared under the names Tasha Warren Dzubay and Tasha Warren-Yehuda. Warren completed her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies at Indiana University, where she worked with James Campbell and Eli Eban and earned her doctorate in 2007; the previous year she won the school’s concerto competition. She began her faculty career at Louisiana State University before moving to the University of Virginia and later to Michigan State University, where she established study-abroad programs in Spain and India. In addition to her academic posts, she has performed with the Columbus (Indiana) Philharmonic, the Charlottesville Symphony in Virginia, the Jackson and Lansing Symphonies in Michigan, and the American Modern Ensemble, joining the faculty of the ensemble’s Mostly Modern Festival in 2018.
Warren made her first recording in 2005 with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing David Dzubay’s Clarinet Concerto. Four years later she issued the solo album Naked Clarinet on Crystal Records, presenting unaccompanied works by Dzubay, Miklós Rósza, Shulamit Ran, Joan Tower, Guy Yehuda, and Libby Larsen. A dedicated advocate for living composers, she has introduced new clarinet and chamber pieces across the United States, Europe, China, and South Korea. In 2016 she returned to the studio with the chamber recital Black Lines and has appeared on the Innova, Alba, and SCI Records labels. Two tracks from her 2022 release with cellist Dave Eggar, Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed, earned Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Performance.
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