Dena Orkin
Co-Executive Director
Dena Orkin is a clarinetist who is passionate about performance and education. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rutgers University, where she was a teaching assistant, a Master’s degree from The Eastman School of Music, and a Bachelor’s degree with concentrations in Music Performance and Music Education from the University of California, Los Angeles where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Latin Honors. Orkin has taught privately and for outreach organizations in New York, New Jersey, and Los Angeles and freelances throughout the tri-state area. She has performed under such conductors as Leif Segerstam, Marin Alsop and Leon Fleisher and has worked with artists including members of the New Jersey Symphony, musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Dick Van Dyke, and J.C. Chasez of NSYNC. Her passions include auxiliary clarinets, new music, and folk music that includes clarinet. In her free time, she is completing an MBA.
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