Michael Wayne

About Michael

Michael Wayne is the Professor of Clarinet at the Eastman School of Music. He was formerly a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and the Kansas City Symphony. He has also held faculty positions at the New England Conservatory of Music, Tanglewood Music Center, National Orchestral Institute, Interlochen, and Bowdoin Music Festival. In addition, Wayne has served as a visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and coach for the New World Symphony. Wayne made his Carnegie Hall solo debut with the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s clarinet concerto, Brooklyn Bridge, and later recorded the work for Equilibrium Records. Other recording projects include the Grammy Award-winning Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, released on Deutsche Grammophon. He also appears in numerous PBS Great Performances specials with the Boston Symphony and Pops, recorded at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. Wayne has performed at festivals including the Grand Teton Music Festival, Verbier Festival, Music Academy of the West, National Orchestral Institute, Colorado Music Festival, and Hot Springs Music Festival. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Paul Boylan Award and Earl V. Moore Award from the University of Michigan, the Whitaker Advanced Study Grant from the Music Academy of the West, and a Fine Arts Award from Interlochen. Wayne holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Michigan, where his principal teachers were Richard Hawkins and Fred Ormand.