Dr. Theodore Schoen

Dr. Theodore Schoen, clarinet, has performed, toured and recorded with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and has been a frequent performer with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra including playing on several of their recordings.

Dr. Schoen has served as the Principal Clarinetist with the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Bass Clarinetist with the Florida Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Bellingham Festival Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Savanah Symphony, Colorado Philharmonic and the Tallahassee Symphony. 

Dr. Schoen is currently a member of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of the North and the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School and his D.M.A. from Florida State University.  His teachers were Stanley Drucker, Joseph Allard, Charles Russo, and Anthony Ciccarelli. 

He is an active chamber music soloist. Dr. Schoen has given many solo and chamber recitals including performances at Lincoln Center, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and in St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Novouralsk, Russia. He has also performed as concerto soloist with the Ural State Philharmonic in Ekaterinberg, Russia and the Banda Sinfonica Conservatorio de Tatui in Brazil and has given masterclasses at the  Conservatoire de Lyon (France), Sichuan Conservatory of Music (China), Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire (Russia), and the Conservatório de Tatuí (Brazil). Schoen has recorded a solo CD, Clarinet Hive, on the Naxos label which includes the world premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s Hive and other works for clarinets with Ricardo Morales (Philadelphia Orchestra, principal), Laura Ardan (Atlanta Symphony, principal), Timothy Paradise (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, principal), Evan Ziporyn (MIT and Bang on a Can), and James Ognibene (Metropolitan Opera, bass clarinet). 

Currently Professor of Clarinet at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Dr. Schoen received the prestigious University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow Award in 2005.  He has appeared on recordings for Naxos, Telarc, Koch, Centaur, Innova, Summit, Warner Bros., TriStar Pictures, Disney, and Madacy.