Single Reed Secrets: Elevating Your Clarinet and Saxophone Pedagogy

Saturday, January 24, 2026
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Description
Single Reed Secrets: Elevating Your Clarinet and Saxophone Pedagogy is an engaging and informative clinic tailored specifically for band directors and music educators. This session will provide valuable insights into effective teaching strategies for clarinet and saxophone students, focusing on embouchure, voicing, hand position, tone production, articulation, and equipment needs. The clinicians will demonstrate how to troubleshoot and address common issues with reed instruments from squeaks to intonation challenges, and offer valuable resources and methods for teaching these instruments. With a hands-on, practical approach, this clinic will equip educators with the tools they need to address common challenges faced by their woodwind students.
Kylie Stultz-Dessent Paul Lorenz
Speakers
Kylie Stultz-Dessent
Paul Lorenz
Learning Objective 1
Participants will learn targeted strategies to improve clarinet and saxophone students’ embouchure, voicing, hand position, tone production, articulation, and equipment choices.
Learning Objective 2
Participants will gain practical skills to identify and correct typical reed instrument issues, such as squeaks, poor intonation, and weak tone.
Learning Objective 3
Participants will leave with a toolkit of methods, exercises, and resources that will empower them to confidently teach and inspire clarinet and saxophone students at all skill levels.
Session Level
Middle School/Junior High, High School