Natalie Groom

Biography

Professor Natalie Groom enjoys a multi-hyphenate career as a performer, educator, composer and arts manager in Maryland. She has toured China with the Fed Fox Quintet and performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Annapolis Symphony, Annapolis Opera and Tucson Symphony. Dr. Groom particularly loves where music intersects activism. In 2018, she and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick founded Whisting Hens to perform and commission music by women composers, and create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music.

A few of her performance career highlights include being a featured soloist with the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra and performing at the Kennedy Center, AMP by Strathmore, New World Center, The Anthem, Phillips Collection, Austrian and Spanish Embassies and Goethe-Institut. She has made numerous contributions to The Clarinet journal and she is co-inventor of the single reed micrometer, Reed Mapper®.