ABOUT US

Clarinetist Mary Kantor maintains an active career as an orchestra and chamber musician as well as teacher. She was principal clarinetist with the Bellevue Philharmonic from 1999 to 2011. She was also a long time member of the Rainier Chamber Winds, the Shalom Ensemble, and the Federal Way Symphony. She has performed on a number of sound tracks, notably “Die Hard With a Vengeance”, “Pocahontas”, “The Wedding Crashers.”
As a soloist, she has performed the Mozart Concerto and Richard Strauss’ Duet-Concertino with Philharmonia Northwest. She has also performed as a section player with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and the Austrian Radio Orchestra.
Recent chamber music performances include Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire with UPS faculty in October of 2019, faculty recital at SPU of all Latin American composers in May of 2019, among many other projects.
She has received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Washington and graduated from the Academy of Music in Vienna with Honors in clarinet performance, where she was in the class of Rudolf Jettel.
As an educator, she coaches the Seattle Youth Symphony, Cascade Youth Symphony, and Bellevue Youth Symphony. She has also been on the faculty of Seattle Pacific University as clarinet professor from 1999 to the present. In addition, she maintains a private clarinet studio, many of whom go on to graduate from music schools such as Indiana University, Peabody, University of Michigan, etc.
As the Washington state chair for the International Clarinet Association, she has published numerous articles in the Clarinet Magazine, and served as adjudicator.

Clarinetist Beverly Setzer is a longstanding member of the board of the Musicians’ Association of Seattle, and during her tenure as chairperson of the Snohomish Cooperative Preschool; she breathed life back into the organization, acquiring a crucial new college affiliation for the preschool.  She is also a member of the board of the Regional Orchestra Players Association.  She holds degrees in Clarinet Performance from the University of Washington, appears with many local musical groups and is a member of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, the Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra and is Principal Clarinet of Cascade Symphony Orchestra.

Brook Rose grew up in Southern California and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2009. She worked for corporate America for many years as a payroll and human resources trainer, while volunteering in the Bellevue School District and with partner organizations, such as Bellevue Schools Foundation.  When she discovered she had a love for service and volunteering, she switched to working in the non-profit sector.

Although not a musician, her daughter is a flute and sax player and over the years, she has come to love everything about the music community. Her love of music and being a musician parent drew her to want to work in the musical community and ultimately, to help ensure that a music education is available to any child who wants it. She has seen firsthand what a music education has done for her daughter and cares deeply that kids who want a music education, have access to it.

brook@lwso.org

Carolyn Wyman: Carolyn studied viola at the Cornish College of the Arts, University of Washington, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and finally in Oxford, England where she received her diploma L.G.S.M. (Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music) in London. She has performed internationally in Europe and Canada as well as locally. She plays professionally with the Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra as well as being secretary of the board of directors. She performs with the Ambrosia String Quartet and other ensembles. Before becoming the director of the Beaux Arts Suzuki Academy of Music, she was a faculty member of the University of Puget Sound Community Music Program and conductor of the Everett Young Strings Youth Symphony. She currently coaches for the Bellevue Youth Symphony and is an active performing member of the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle.

Bio coming soon.