Clarinetist Alicia Bennett is active as a freelance clarinetist, private music teacher, and instrument repair technician. After 20 years in NY and NYC, Alicia moved to Seattle, WA for the 2021-2022 academic year to attend Renton Technical College's Band Instrument Repair Program. After graduating with her certification in instrument repair, Alicia moved to Oregon to work at Wally's Music Repair Shop in Oregon City in June of 2022.  

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Prior to moving to Seattle and Oregon, Alicia taught at the Bloomingdale School of Music and the 92nd Street Y in NYC for over a decade; before the pandemic Alicia was also a Teaching Artist for the 92Y's award winning Discover Music Series. Alicia has also taught for Stony Brook University's Pre-College Music Program and Suffolk Community College, and in summers past has contributed her teaching skills to the Hummingbird Music Camp in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

 

As an orchestral clarinetist Alicia has primarily played with New York City-based orchestras Camerata Notturna and The Chelsea Symphony. Past notable engagements include an Artist Residency at the Banff Center for Performing Arts; playing Debussy's Premiere Rhapsody with Camerata Notturna Orchestra; and performances of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto (2018) and Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs (2019) with The Chelsea Symphony. Pandemic teaching has inspired Alicia to create a YouTube Channel to aid her students with remote online learning and practicing. 



Alicia received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, and her Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from Stony Brook University. Her primary teachers have been Keith Lemmons, Alan Kay, and Daniel Gilbert.

 

When not working or playing clarinet, Alicia enjoys spending time with friends and family, making and baking things, exploring her new city, and seeing and experiencing art, music, and culture in its many forms.