Stacey DiPaolo, clarinetist, recently relocated to the Chicago area, and is an active performer and educator. DiPaolo previously held the posts of Professor of Clarinet at Southwestern Oklahoma State University (2010-2024), Principal Clarinet of the Lawton Philharmonic, and regular substitute musician with the Tulsa Symphony. During the 2009-2010 season, she performed as Principal Clarinet of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and was Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Oklahoma City University. From 1999-2009, Dr. DiPaolo worked as a professional freelance musician in the New York area, playing concert stages ranging from Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, New York’s City Center, the New York State Theater, to Broadway.

 

Her orchestral performances include productions such as Garrison Keillor’s radio show A Prairie Home Companion, and Casey at the Bat, a production of Robert Kapilow’s famed “What Makes it Great?” series. Her Broadway performances include The Sound of Music, and Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme. Her many collaborations include performances under the batons of acclaimed conductors Gerard Schwarz, Skitch Henderson, Robert Shaw, and Constantine Kitsopoulos, and renowned wind band conductors Donald Hunsberger, H. Robert Reynolds, Harry Begian, and Frederick Fennell.



Dr. DiPaolo has frequently been featured as soloist and chamber musician, and appears as guest recitalist and master class clinician at festivals, conferences, and universities across the country. In her chamber music performances, she has collaborated with such artists as Gilbert Kalish, Stephen Taylor, William Purvis, and members of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Oklahoma City and Lawton Philharmonics. During her years in Oklahoma, she presented "Chamber Music Weatherford," a chamber music concert series in Weatherford, OK that featured the faculty of Southwestern Oklahoma State University.



DiPaolo served as Chair and Co-Chair of the International Clarinet Association's Pedagogy Committee from 2020-2023, and has been featured as a clinician at "ClarinetFest," the annual conference of the ICA. She has spent summers at the Chautauqua Institution, Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele (Germany), and toured Japan twice with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. An enthusiastic and devoted teacher, Dr. DiPaolo has also been a long-time summer faculty member of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. 

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Stacey DiPaolo holds a doctorate degree from SUNY Stony Brook, and received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music, including the esteemed Performer’s Certificate. Additionally, she is a graduate-with-distinction of the Interlochen Arts Academy. She has studied with Dan Gilbert, Jon Manasse, Deborah Chodacki, Eli Eban, and Lee Barnes.