Aileen Razey

As an international soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, educator, and clinician, Dr. Aileen Razey fosters an environment for listeners and students to develop a deeper relationship with themselves and with the world around them. Razey performs with Symphoria Syracuse, Allentown Symphony, and Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. She has performed with the Aspen Music Festival, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and Savaria Symphony Orchestra, and she can be heard on five GIA records with the North Texas Wind Symphony. Second prize winner of the ICA Orchestra Audition Competition, Razey performed “the opening of Daphnis with an ease rarely heard” (The Clarinet).

She won first prize at the first Henri Selmer Paris International Summer Clarinet Academy Competition and was semi-finalist in the Lisbon and Cluj International Competitions and the ICA Young Artist Competition. Razey is dedicated to performing works by living international composers, and she has performed with contemporary ensembles such as the Lucerne Festival Academy and Klangspuren Schwaz International Ensemble Modern Academy. Razey has performed in venues from the Kölner Philharmonie, to the boardwalk overlooking the mountains reflected in Lake Lucerne, to dining rooms of contemporary music supporters in Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. Razey’s performing has a direct influence on her approach to pedagogy as Assistant Professor at Kutztown University. She is a D’Addario Woodwinds Clinician and performs on Reserve reeds.

Razey serves as Performance Chair for the College Music Society Northeast Chapter and is hosting the 2024 Northeast conference at Kutztown University. She a member of the ICA’s Health and Wellness Committee, with a goal of cultivating a healthy clarinet community. Razey earned degrees from the University of North Texas, University of Denver, and Ithaca College. Her teachers include Kimberly Cole Luevano, Jeremy Reynolds, Pavel Vinnitsky, Michael Rusinek, Gabor Varga, and Michael Galvan.