Todd Waldecker

Todd Waldecker has served for over 25 years as Professor of Clarinet at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and teaches studio clarinet, chamber music and pedagogy. He also serves on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.

Waldecker has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. He is a frequent guest with the Grammy Award-winning Nashville Symphony and Principal Clarinet of the Nashville Opera. Active as a studio musician in Nashville, he also records for film, television, and video games.

Waldecker is the director of the MTSU Clarinet Choir and has performed by invitation at several International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests. He also hosts the annual MTSU High School Honor Clarinet Choir which has introduced the genre to hundreds of young clarinetists.

His graduates enjoy careers as university professors, public school teachers, orchestral and military band musicians, music librarians, and in the fields of publishing, sales, marketing and instrument repair. Waldecker’s students have been prizewinners in MTNA Music Competitions and semi-finalists and finalists in the International Clarinet Association's Young Artist and Orchestral Competitions.

Dr. Waldecker holds degrees from Indiana University (D.M), Yale University (M.M.), and the University of Missouri (B.M.). His teachers include Howard Klug, Eli Eban, James Campbell, Alfred Prinz, David Shifrin, Paul Garritson and John Patterson.

Waldecker is a Buffet Crampon Artist and Vandoren Artist Clinician.