Our committee works to ensure that the ICA’s DEIA mission allows members to feel welcome in our community. In this session, we will address complex and sensitive topics that are present in today’s music programs. Members will introduce themselves and focus on individual issues that can aid in creating a positive community within your ensemble. Topics addressed will help instructors grow support within their own program. The last portion of the session will be dedicated to answering questions.
International Clarinet Association DEIA Committee
- Biographical Information
The International Clarinet Association Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Committee will support, advocate, promote and develop the ICA’s commitment to nurturing an environment that celebrates equal opportunity for the members and discourages discriminatory practices and treatment. We foster an inclusive community that is representative of the diverse cultures, backgrounds and life experiences of our membership. We honor, represent and respect all clarinetists understanding that traits including race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, education, neurodiversity, disability, status as a veteran, marital status, parental status, gender, sexuality, and genetic information provide unique perspectives of what it means to be a clarinetist and add immeasurable value to the global clarinet community.
We support change and development for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access for the global clarinet community. In accordance with our mission of inspiring, educating and serving the global clarinet community, we embrace individual differences and foster equity by eliminating barriers and welcoming new constituencies into the ICA.
Catherine
Wood is the President of the International Clarinet Association and is joined
by members of the ICA’s DEIA Committee, including Natalie Szabo, Stefanie
Gardner, Christine Hoerning, and Tyler Mazone.
The
International Clarinet Association is
a diverse and inclusive community of clarinetists and clarinet enthusiasts that
supports projects that will benefit clarinet performance; provides
opportunities for the exchange of ideas, materials, and information among its
members; fosters the composition, publication, recording, and distribution of
music for the clarinet; encourages the research and manufacture of a more
definitive clarinet; encourages communication and cooperation among
clarinetists and the music industry; and encourages and promotes the
performance and teaching of a wide variety of repertoire for the clarinet. To these ends, the association is dedicated to fostering
communication and fellowship of clarinetists on a worldwide basis through
publishing a quarterly scholarly journal, The
Clarinet, producing an annual clarinet
festival, ClarinetFest®, supporting a research library with materials available to all
members, and promoting a variety of other endeavors related to the clarinet and
clarinet playing.