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Andrea is an active freelance clarinetist and private teacher in the Chicagoland area.  She has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Orchestra, Quad City Symphony, Chicago Opera Theater, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Lake Forest Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, and Illinois Symphony Orchestra.  Andrea performed bass clarinet with the Quad City Symphony for the 2007-2008 season, and she performed as a partial season substitute on 2nd Clarinet with the Grant Park Orchestra for the 2009 festival.

In addition to her orchestral work, Andrea is the clarinetist and Artistic Administrator for the MAVerick Ensemble, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Chicago.  The ensemble performs solo and chamber works in many venues and universities including the Chicago Cultural Center, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Renaissance Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gene Siskel Film Center, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, VanderCook College of Music, Benedictine University, and Chicago State University.  Andrea has had the opportunity to work with many composers including David Lang, Christian Wolff, and James Tenney.

Andrea enjoys teaching Music Appreciation for Benedictine's Moser College of Adult and Professional Studies.  Andrea is currently the clarinet instructor at North Central College in Naperville, and has also held positions at Benedictine University and Loyola University Chicago.  Andrea has clarinet studios at her home and Lockport Township High School.

This past summer Andrea had the pleasure of being part of the 'inagural year' of the PreCollege Clarinet Camp at ISYM (Illinois Summer Youth Music).  She team taught this week of fun with Professor J. David Harris from the University of Illinois.  It was a wonderful week of solos, lessons, lunches drawing on reeds, practicing, silliness, performances, learning, practicing, laughing, masterclasses, reeds, practicing, trios, questions, clarinet choir, and much much more!  Next year will be even better!!  Find out more info here.

Andrea studied clarinet with Charlene Zimmerman, J. David Harris, Russell Dagon, and John Bruce Yeh.  She earned her Master of Music degree in performance, from Northwestern University, and her Bachelor of Music degree with honors, in performance, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Andrea feels very fortunate to have had such great teachers and mentors, and she is delighted to have the opportunity to pass on what she has learned to all of her students.

Andrea can be reached at andreadiorio@yahoo.com

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