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Gregory Young was the soloist
for our first concert of the 2000/2001 season
and the first concert of our 2004/2005 season
 Gregory Young, principal clarinetist
with the Montana Ballet Company and the Intermountain Opera Orchestras, received a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Western Ontario, and master's and
doctoral degrees in music from the University of Michigan.
He is the founder of the annual Montana/Idaho Clarinet Association and a member of the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet, with whom he toured Japan
in the summer of 1995. He has studied with Linda Bartley, Jerome Summers, Stanley Hasty, Herbert Blayman and John Mohler, and has been broadcast on CBC radio as recitalist and concerto soloist.
 Young has taught at the University of
Prince Edward Island, Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Western Ontario and Montana State University-Bozeman, where he has been a clarinet professor since 1988. He
performed at the International Clarinet Association Conference in Richmond, Virginia and the Canadian University Music Conference in Windsor, Ontario, and recently presented invited
talks on music and architecture in Italy as well as concerts in Morocco with the Camerata Trio.
The United States Information Agency sponsored his recent concert tour of Brazil with the Kreutzer Trio and soprano Elizabeth Croy, and in
May 2000 he toured as soloist and conductor of the MSU Cello Ensemble throughout Europe. Two months later he was guest soloist at the G-8 Summit Festival of Arts in Okinawa, Japan.
He developed the Bozeman Symphony Outreach Program and served for three years as Head of the Department of Music at MSU-Bozeman where
he is currently Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
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