About Me
Cameron DeLuca is a clarinetist and bass clarinetist based in the greater Los Angeles region. He has played in venues from coast-to-coast with various ensembles, performing concerts for the California and Pennsylvania Music Educators Association conferences in 2016 and 2019, respectively. In 2018, Cameron attended Eastern Music Festival, where he performed as a member of the student and faculty orchestras and as a chamber musician. He has served as a regular member of the Temple University Wind Symphony, the Temple University New Music Ensemble, and various ensembles at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, including the Wind Symphony, Philharmonia, Concert Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Chamber Winds. With the Temple University New Music Ensemble, Cameron also appeared as a soloist and participated in the premieres of works by Emiliano Pardo-Tristan and Erik Lundborg.
Cameron holds a BM from Temple University and a MM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers include Eric Anderson, Paul Demers, and Ixi Chen, and he has performed in masterclasses for Yehuda Gilad, Richie Hawley, and Nicolas Baldeyrou. While at Temple, Cameron also studied bass clarinet under Mr. Demers. He has also received additional bass clarinet instruction from J. Lawrie Bloom and Ron Aufmann.
Mission Statement
My primary goal as a clarinetist is to expand people's horizons through exposure to works, styles, and composers that lie outside the classical canon. I have nothing but admiration for the staples, but most of those works are hundreds of years old and the clarinet repertoire has expanded and diversified in so many ways since then. I aim to bring awareness to this development through non-conventional recital programming and through publicized analysis of select works, all of which are available to read on this website. In doing these things, I hope to broaden people's definition of what "classical music" is and ultimately make the art form more accessible and diverse in appeal.