Private or Virtual Online Clarinet Teachers
Lessons in your Home!

Celia Tang, Clarinet & Music Theory Teacher
MM University of Toronto, Clarinet Performance
BM University of Toronto, Clarinet Performance

Lucas MacPhail, Clarinet teacher

Celia studied with Max Christie and Joseph Orlowski at the University of Toronto. She studied Music Theory at Ware Academy of Music. She performed in the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Linus Chamber Orchestra and Musica Reflecta. Most recently, she won a concerto competition and performed it with the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra. She performs a variety of genres in her chamber ensemble Tutti!

Kevin Vuong, Clarinet, Saxophone and Recorder Teacher and Conductor
BM University of University of Toronto Clarinet Performance

Kevin Vuong, Kevin Vuong, Clarinet, Saxophone and Recorder Teacher and Conductor

A versatile clarinetist, Kevin has performed with the University of Toronto Wind Ensemble, the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra and the Chinese Artist’s Society of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and freelances in the Toronto area. Kevin also performs as a woodwind doubler in musical theatre pit orchestras, and with the Avenue Winds, a recently formed Wind Quintet freelancing in the Toronto area.

As a conductor-educator, Kevin is enjoys working with all types of ensembles, from community-based organizations to middle and high school bands. Kevin began his interest as Conductor’s Apprentice at TDSB Music by the Lake for three years working with Grade 6-8 band students. Most recently, Kevin was a featured band clinician at Richmond Hill High School’s Feeder School Band Day, and continues to participate in conducting symposia across Canada and the United States with the goal of pursuing graduate studies in wind conducting and music education.

Kevin recently completed his Bachelor of Music (Music Education) with Honours at the University of Toronto where he studied clarinet with Peter Stoll and conducting with Dr. Gillian Mackay and Ivars Taurins. Kevin was also involved as Vice President, Academic on the Faculty of Music Undergraduate Association, and as a Faculty of Music Student Ambassador.

Most recently, Kevin was a 2019 Denis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra Conducting Fellow and completed a concert cycle as Apprentice Conductor with Orchestra Toronto, under the supervision of Michael Newnham. This upcoming year, Kevin is the Music Director for Ember Island Players’ in-concert production of Sweeney Todd and conduct the world premiere of a chamber opera for Green Room Music Toronto in April 2020, and music direct the Toronto Fringe Festival debut of A Perfect Bowl of Pho in July 2020.

Meet Clarinet TeacherCelia Tang

To book an assessment or a trial lesson call: 905-479-0591

Clarinet Lessons

Clarinet lessons $27.50 - $30 per half hour of private clarinet instruction.

Starting Clarinet Lessons

If your child is less than 8 years old, start with Recorder lessons. Receive a free Yamaha recorder when you buy 6 half hour lessons and a book at discounted rates!

For optimal results, I strongly recommend parents attend first clarinet lessons, to monitor and support progress through the initial phase.
- Lynn Ware

The Clarinet

Although the clarinet is not the oldest member of the woodwind family – by comparison with the flute, which originated thousands of years ago, it is a relative infant – it has an interesting and venerable history stretching back about 300 years. Being a student of the clarinet is exciting as you develop your ability to produce a beautiful and rich low register tone and silky and balanced sound throughout the register, to achieving a smooth transition over “the break”, to a sweet ringing tone in the clarion register and beyond.

As clarinetists, we are fortunate to have a relatively large amount of repertoire available to us and as your skill improves, more and more of it becomes available to play, which is very exciting. In school, perhaps you play – or aspire to play – in a band, but since the clarinet’s early days in the mid 1700’s, many composers have loved the instrument and as a result, since Mozart’s day, much great orchestral repertoire, solo repertoire with orchestra and with piano, and chamber music (small to medium sized ensembles) has been written for it. Great composer such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Weber, Copland, Debussy, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and many more have written much great music for the clarinet.

I hope that whichever instrument you play, that you have a long and happy association with music, and I look forward to meeting you soon!
- Celia Tang, Clarinet

Clarinet Student in Performance

Free Yamaha Recorder Special

Free Yamaha Recorder, 6-30mins Private Online Lessons, and recorder book $141 HST included.

The Recorder is the ideal introduction and preparation for students 9 years old and younger who wants to play the Clarinet.

Learning Clarinet

Young students generally begin clarinet lessons at eight or nine years old. Students must be physically able to support the clarinet with the aid of a neck strap, have appropriate arm length to cover finger holes and have their adult teeth. Meet with the teacher to determine whether a young student is ready to begin.

Private or Virtual Online Clarinet Teachers Lessons in your Home!

Celia Tang, Clarinet & Music Theory Teacher MM University of Toronto, Clarinet Performance BM University of Toronto, Clarinet Performance

Kevin Vuong, Clarinet, Saxophone and Recorder Teacher and Conductor BM University of University of Toronto Clarinet Performance