GVSU Clarinet Day
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Clarinet Players if you want to ….
- make practice work for you
- solve technical problems
- play in solo and ensemble without being nervous
- get into a top university program
- play a successful ensemble audition
Come to the GVSU clarinet day and find out how!!
The exclusively undergraduate clarinet program at GVSU has grown into one of the most successful undergraduate programs in the country. Our clarinet students are winning national and international competitions and we have spectacular success combining high level clarinet study with broadly diverse programs.
We invite you to discover the secret to this success!
Ensemble Directors: Send your clarinet students to us for the day! We will send them back motivated and ready to play! Come yourself to enjoy sessions that will help make your clarinet section sound better.
Clarinet Day Schedule
12:30-1:00pm - Registration - LAT Lobby
1:00-1:30pm - Warmup/Fundamentals - SVS Recital Hall
1:30-2:00pm - Clarinet Choir Reading - SVS Recital Hall
2:00-3:00pm - Masterclass with GVSU students, Guest Artist - Andrea DiOrio - SVS Recital Hall
3:00-4:00pm - Masterclass with High School students, Dr. June - SVS Recital Hall
4:00-4:30pm - Break
4:30-6:00pm - Potpourri Recital - SVS Recital Hall
Fee
This day is completely free!
Registration
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Register online at the link below.
Clarinet Day Faculty and Guest Artists
Gary June
Dr. Gary June is a clarinetist and educator based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is Visiting Professor of Clarinet at Grand Valley State University. As an orchestral musician, he is Principal Clarinet of the Holland Symphony Orchestra and the 2nd/E-flat clarinetist of the Flint and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestras. He likewise regularly plays as guest principal and section clarinet with orchestras such as the Grand Rapids Symphony, the West Michigan Symphony, and Sinfonia da Camera. As a committed educator of primary and secondary-aged students, he spends summers teaching and playing at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Gary June is also an active chamber musician and soloist. As a member of the Amosa Duo, he has given recitals at universities throughout the United States and at the PianoForte Foundation in Chicago, IL. The Amosa Duo has also toured many of Taiwan’s most prestigious concert halls, including the National Recital Hall in Taipei. As a member of Grand Valley’s faculty wind quintet, Grand Valley Winds, he performed in the Czech Republic as part of the featured ensemble in the Janáček Music Festival. Other recent engagements include performing Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie with the Holland Symphony Orchestra, Copland’s Appalachian Spring at the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival, faculty recitals at GVSU, SVSU, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and serving as the guest artist at Kansas State University’s annual Clarinet Day.
Dr. June has given master classes at universities such as the Janáček Conservatory and Ostrava University in the Czech Republic, the National Tainan University in Taiwan, Kansas State University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Austin Peay State University. He holds degrees from Grand Valley State University and the University of Colorado-Boulder and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he wrote his thesis on contemporary Finnish clarinet music. His principal teachers include Dr. Arthur Campbell, Daniel Silver, and J. David Harris. Dr. June is a Vandoren Artist-Clinician and performs on Vandoren mouthpieces and reeds.
Andrea R. DiOrio
Andrea R. DiOrio, is among Chicago’s most highly sought after clarinetists. She has performed with numerous local orchestras including the Chicago Philharmonic, Elgin, Grant Park Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Quad Cities, Illinois Philharmonic, Elmhurst, and South Bend Symphony Orchestras. In addition, DiOrio has performed in over twenty operas with the Lyric Opera Orchestra between 2003 and 2020 including principal clarinet for A Light in the Piazza featuring Renée Fleming.
As a chamber musician, DiOrio is the clarinetist and Director of Operations and Marketing for Picosa, a Chicago based chamber ensemble comprised of flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. Picosa performs all over Chicagoland and most recently was the recipient of Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Shawn E. Okpebholo in 2022. The premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s new composition for Picosa, Redlin[ing], was in Fall 2024 and Picosa recorded it in October 2025 for an upcoming album through Cedille Records. She has been a core member of the Chicago Clarinet Ensemble and a former member of the MAVerick Ensemble, where she also served as Artistic Administrator. With Picosa and MAVerick, she participated in dozens of world premieres and enjoys working with composers. She has also performed live on WFMT with Picosa, the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Grant Park Festival Orchestra, and MAVerick Ensemble.
DiOrio is recognized as a top pedagogue and is currently on the music faculty of Elmhurst University where she is Head of Woodwinds, teaches clarinet, performance seminar and directs the EU Clarinet Choir. For over 10 years she was Co-Director of the Illinois Summer Youth Music Pre-College Clarinet Camp with J. David Harris at the University of Illinois. Previously she served in the music departments of North Central College, Aurora University, Benedictine University and Loyola University Chicago.
DiOrio is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied with Russell Dagon and received her Master of Music Performance in Clarinet. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where she studied with J. David Harris and received a Bachelor of Music Performance in Clarinet, with honors. Additionally, she studied with Charlene Zimmerman, Lyric Opera of Chicago and John Bruce Yeh, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
She feels very fortunate to have had such fantastic mentors and teachers throughout her career, especially Charlene Zimmerman and J. David Harris. Their continued guidance and inspiration is truly a blessing. She lives in Naperville with her husband Tony, daughter Penelope (7), son Zachary (3) and has an avid interest in swing dancing, quilting and all things crafty. www.andreadiorio.com [email protected] @The.Clarinet.Diva