08/22/2026
Meet the faculty of UMBC Department of Music Woodwind Day on September 12! Dr. Natalie Groom will be leading the clarinet masterclass, Clarinet Great Players & Pieces Trivia, and the D'Addario Woodwinds presentation.
Dr. Natalie Groom is a clarinetist, educator, D’Addario Woodwinds Artist, composer, and arts administrator in Maryland where she is the clarinet professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Towson University.
She has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Symphony Space NYC, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Washington National Cathedral, New World Center, The Anthem, Phillips Collection, Goethe-Institut, and Austrian, Spanish, and Colombian Embassies.
She has toured China with the Fred Fox Wind Quintet and performed with the Annapolis Symphony, Annapolis Opera, Richmond Symphony, Virginia Opera, Great Falls Philharmonic, Regenerate Orchestra, and Tucson Symphony.
Natalie particularly loves where music intersects advocacy. In 2018, Natalie and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick founded Whistling Hens® to perform and commission music by women composers and create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. To date, the Hens have released two albums, premiered 38 pieces, inspired 23 dedicated works, and commissioned 15 compositions.
Additionally, as founder of Three Reeds and a Horn trio, Natalie promotes flex music in her Flexing the Canon project. With 12 commissions to date, she is building an overlooked body of repertoire, flex chamber trios, to ensure music is accessible to student musicians.
Natalie has been published numerous times in the International Clarinet Association journal, and she is co-inventor of the new single reed micrometer, Reed Mapper®, on which she wrote her dissertation. She is engaged in the music industry as a voting member of the Recording Academy.
Register for free for Woodwind Day at https://music.umbc.edu/events/wwday/
Are you a high school student interested in a trial lesson? Email Dr. Groom at [email protected] and we will work to schedule something that evening while you visit our beautiful campus.
