Michael Wayne, BM ’03 (clarinet), has enjoyed success as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician performing throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Wayne joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2008, after his tenure as principal clarinet of the Kansas City Symphony. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Phoenix Symphony, and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and has been a visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In recent years, has given master classes at the University of Michigan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas. Michael made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2005 with the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s clarinet concerto Brooklyn Bridge, as a featured soloist with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, and is also the soloist on the premiere recording of the work on Equilibrium Records.