Geoffrey Larson
A native of Seattle, young conductor Geoffrey Larson is currently a student of Peter Erös at the University of Washington. Geoffrey studied clarinet at Michigan State University, where he graduated with a degree in Music Performance with Honors. As a clarinetist, he holds principal positions in the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble and has performed in Michigan, Texas, Oregon, Illinois, and Washington, including a radio broadcast on Seattle's KING FM. He has also given solo performances in Kanazawa, Japan and Vienna, Austria. He counts George Hurst, Harold Farberman, Alastair Willis, Christian Knapp, Raphael Jimenez, Wolfgang Harrer, Denise Ham, Robert Houlihan, and Rodolfo Saglimbeni among his teachers in conducting. Geoffrey was named a Fellow at the Bard Conductors Institute as the course's youngest member in 2007, and was personally selected by George Hurst to be one of four conductors to participate in master classes at London's Royal Academy of Music in 2008.