About me…
Hailed for her “enchanting” performances (New York Classical Review), her “lambent tone and persuasive phrasing” (Oberon’s Grove), Swiss-French clarinetist Yasmina Spiegelberg is the laureate of several international and national competitions including the Rotary International Competition Madrid Velazquez, the Frances Walton Seattle Competition, and the USC Concerto Competition. Additionally, she was awarded the Special Prize at the 2nd Vienna International Music Competition, and the Golden Medal at the 4th Manhattan International Music Competition. Her former clarinet trio, The Tandru Trio, was the winner at the Beverly Hills National Auditions in 2019. With her woodwind quintet, ConnectFive, she was an Ensemble Forward Grantee through Chamber Music America.
Based in NYC, she is an alum of Ensemble Connect, the resident ensemble of Carnegie Hall, which features extraordinary young musicians from around the globe who are committed to community engagement, teaching, entrepreneurship, and leadership. She has appeared in many renowned concert halls including the Oslo Concert Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall.
Yasmina was a guest soloist with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Nomad Symphony Orchestra (France), String Ensemble Rapsodia (Switzerland), USC Thornton Edge, and USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra. She has been broadcasted live as a soloist on KUSC (California) and KING-FM (Washington) and she recorded an album in Switzerland featuring concertos and other works for clarinet and orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Stefan Asbury, Richard Egarr, Franck Ollu, Paul Watkins, and Xiao Zhang.
She has appeared at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor, Chelsea Music Festival, Festival POTE (France), GatherNYC, International Ensemble Modern Academy (Austria), Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Rocket City New Music, TIME:SPANS Festival, Yellowbarn, and with renowned ensembles such as A Far Cry, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Argento New Music Project, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, On Site Opera, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Yasmina is a core member and co-founder of Trio Phōs, a NYC-based clarinet trio. She’s also the Principal Clarinetist of Pegasus: The Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of New York, as well as the Clarinetist of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. She was a designated substitute on the Broadway Show Camelot. Her chamber music collaborations include Natasha Brofsky, Peter Frankl, Clive Greensmith, Thomas Guei, Peter Kolkay, Cynthia Phelps, Hila Plitmann, Mark Steinberg, and Roger Tapping. A passionate advocate of contemporary classical music, she collaborates with composers Kalevi Aho, Reena Esmail, inti figgis-vizueta, Liza Lim, James MacMillan, and Michi Wiancko.
She has also performed at some of the finest concert series in Los Angeles, including Dilijan, Classical Sundays at Six, LACMA Sunday’s Live, WineMusic, and Music In The Mansion.
As part of a cultural exchange between Norway and Côte d’Ivoire, Yasmina traveled with Barth Niava, director of Oslo’s African Culture Institute (CAK), to Addah, Côte d’Ivoire, to learn several traditional songs from the village. In celebration of the CAK’s 40th Anniversary, she premiered Pierre Thilloy’s Le Chant des Lagunes, a quadruple concerto for violin, clarinet, bassoon, djembe, and orchestra, which took inspiration from the same traditional songs.
An experienced educator, Yasmina has taught at Juilliard Pre-College, The Santa Monica Conservatory, Musique & Son in Switzerland, and was a faculty member for the Young Artist Program at Yellowbarn where she taught chamber music and clarinet. She has also been appointed as clarinet faculty at Riverdale Country School. She has an experience encompassing more than fifteen years of teaching clarinet to students of all ages. As part of her Fellowship with Ensemble Connect, she was a teaching artist in residence at Robert F. Wagner Middle School in Manhattan as well as at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn.
She holds a Bachelor’s from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (The Netherlands), as well as a Master in Performance from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Björn Nyman. She also earned a Graduate Certificate and an Artist Diploma from the University of Southern California with world-famous Professor Yehuda Gilad.
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