Biography
Jana Starling
Canadian clarinetist Jana Starling joined the music faculty at Arizona State University in 2007 and bases her active teaching and performing career from Tempe, Arizona. Previously in Canada, she taught clarinet and saxophone at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick and clarinet at Brandon University. Ms. Starling's diverse teaching career also led her to the wilds of Paraguay, South America were she spent two years teaching woodwinds and instrumental ensembles.
Her 2006 debut CD Inflexion earned a 2007 East Coast Music Award nomination in Canada for Classical Recording of the Year and hailed a "true listening pleasure" in The Clarinet magazine (March 2008). Ms. Starling is an active commissioner and performer of contemporary works, has performed at the International Clarinetfest (2006, 2007, 2008) and performs regularly with the Arizona Opera company. She has played with the Phoenix Symphony, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and has an eclectic background of performing with world music ensembles such as international folk, Mariachi, and East Indian classical music ensembles.
Ms. Starling has degrees in Music Education and Performance from Brandon University, Canada and Arizona State University. Her primary teachers have been Ron Goddard and Robert Spring. As an educator, she is an active clinician throughout Canada and the US and has been a guest artist/clinician at the Belgian Clarinet Academy in Oostende.
Currently Ms. Starling is working on a CD of new clarinet duos with her colleague Robert Spring and her new solo CD to be released in 2010!