Shepherd School alumna Nathalie Hoe, Principal Clarinetist of The Florida Orchestra, leads a master class with Shepherd School of Music clarinet students.
Artists
Principal Clarinet of The Florida Orchestra since 2017, Natalie Hoe holds the Bertelstein Family Chair and has already established herself as an accomplished orchestral musician and versatile solo artist.
Ms. Hoe is a regular guest musician with The Cleveland Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where she was also Guest Principal Clarinet. She has also recently performed with the St. Petersburg Opera and Opera Tampa, as well as the San Antonio Symphony under Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Ms. Hoe spent the Summer of 2022 performing as Principal Clarinet with the Des Moines Metro Opera under the batons of David Neely, Elizabeth Askren and Michael Ellis Ingram. In Summer of 2017, she toured Japan with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev, Jun Märkl, Heiichiro Ohyama and Daniel Matsukawa. She is also an alumnus of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and the Aurora Chamber Music and Masterclass Festival in Trollhättan, Sweden.
A Buffet-Crampon artist, Ms. Hoe performs on the Festival B-flat and Tradition A models of Clarinet.