Genevieve Clarkson

Equally at home in the concert hall as she is on the 50-yard line, Genevieve Clarkson comes to Tallahassee from Oklahoma City, OK where she served as the Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Oklahoma City University since 2018. Clarkson has been featured as a soloist and clinician at a variety of conferences and workshops, including the Midwest Clinic, the Arizona and Oklahoma Music Educators’ Conferences, the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference, the International Women’s Brass Conference, and the Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Workshop.

Clarkson plays tuba in the Magnolia Brass Quintet and contrabass tuba in the In Motus Tuba Quartet – both ensembles composed of professional musicians and educators from across the United States. Outside of chamber music, Clarkson has traveled and performed with various ensembles around the world and played both low and high notes on some of the world’s most beautiful concert stages including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto, Italy, and the Harbin Concert Hall in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.

The winner of Oklahoma City University’s award for Distinguished Achievement in the Innovation of Teaching and Learning (2023), Clarkson is in-demand as a brass instructor and clinician. She is in her seventh year on faculty at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, and her fifth year as the Lead Tuba Instructor for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps.

Clarkson received the DM in Tuba Performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, the MM in Tuba Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the BM in Music Education from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA where she graduated magna cum laude. Her past teachers have included Daniel Perantoni, Timothy Northcut, Kevin Stees, John Cradler, and John Mueller.

Clarkson is a Buffet-Crampon artist and plays on a B&S PT6 (3098L), PT15 (5098), and Besson Prestige.

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