Background
BM, Oberlin College
Coordinator, winds and percussion program. Steven Cohen has been heard in solo recitals throughout the U.S., Europe, and Korea and as a guest artist with the Seoul Philharmonic Clarinet Festival and the Idaho/Montana Clarinet Symposium. He regularly tours with the Texas Opera Theater and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and performs each summer as principal clarinet at the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Cohen is the former principal clarinetist, and featured soloist of the New Orleans Symphony, later known as Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and a former member of the Timm Wind Quintet. He has served on the faculties of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Louisiana State University, Loyola (LA) University and Tulane University and is the author of many articles for Clarinet magazine. An artist/clinician for Buffet clarinets and a Legere reed artist, Cohen studied with Loren Kitt, Larry McDonald, Karl Leister, and Robert Marcellus.
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