Faculty: Marina Sturm
Marina Sturm, clarinetist, grew up in a musical family in Chicago and Milwaukee. Her father, Harry Sturm, was assistant principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner and her mother, Kay Sturm was a singer at WGN Radio Station in Chicago. Her brother Fred is Professor of Jazz at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin and her sister Carolyn is the former second hornist with the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her desire to be an orchestral musician began at an early age and she joined her first orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, at the age of eighteen. She went on to other orchestras including: The Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, The Washington Opera/Kennedy Center Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
During the summer months she has performed with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera, the City of Barcelona Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, and for the past 13 years, with the Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Her studies were at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, in Milwaukee, the Chicago Symphony Training Orchestra, Chicago, The Institute de Hautes Etudes Musicales in Montreux, Switzerland, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her teachers include Russ Dagon, Clark Brody, Keith Stein, and Charles Neidich.
She won first prize in the National Clarinet Competition in Denver, Colorado and was a semi-finalist at the International Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.
She taught at the Hong Kong Conservatory of Music, the Lawrence University Academy, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, University of New York at Stony Brook as a Graduate Assistant, and Bard High School/Early College in New York City.
She is currently a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and performs with many orchestras and ensembles in New York City, including the New York City Opera, the Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola, The Orchestra of St. Luke's, and The St. Luke's Contemporary Music series, Second Helpings, directed by Joan Tower.
She joined the faculty of UNLV in August 2004.