Tiffany Valvo

CLARINETIST

A vibrant performer and teacher, Tiffany Valvo is currently the Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Virginia Commonwealth University and the co-executive director of Music360 and the Digital Clarinet Academy. Music360 is a digital education platform that fills the gaps in traditional classical music training and empowers students to take their careers and performance to the next level.

Tiffany has been a lecturer of music at both Nazareth College and Syracuse University, and has performed at the Sante Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony. Playing chamber music is one of her favorite things to do, and she’s done so in a vast array of styles all over the US and in Belgium, England, Italy, Mexico and Germany.

Fueled by teaching and learning, Tiffany has presented on pedagogy at many international conferences with organizations including the International College Music Society, International Clarinet Association, and American Single Reed Summit. Her article “Refining Fundamentals through Extended Techniques” was published in The Clarinet in March of 2020, and represents her philosophy that much of our creative potential is unleashed through exploration.

Tiffany holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Masters degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelors Degree from Florida State University, with additional studies at the Trossingen Hochschule für Musik with Israeli clarinetist Chen Halevi. She is a D'Addario artist and performs on Buffet clarinets.