About Me
Hailed by the New York Concert Review for his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall ("Clarinet soloist Cameron DeLuca won me over [...] this was something special!"), Cameron DeLuca is a clarinetist and bass clarinetist based in Seattle, Washington deeply committed to the promotion of music crossing the classical and modern settings. He has performed with the Seattle Modern Orchestra and appeared on Emerald City Music's performances of Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato. He has premiered works with the University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, and the Temple University New Music Ensemble. Additionally, Cameron was a member of the soundSCAPE Composition and Performance Exchange in Blonay, Switzerland for two summers (2023 and 2024), where he also appeared as a soloist. Composers Cameron has collaborated with include Emiliano Pardo-Tristan, Erik Lundborg, Judith Ring, Alexandre Babel, William Dougherty, and Melia Watras.
Cameron is vastly experienced as an orchestral musician. He is bass clarinetist of the Great Falls Symphony and has performed with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He is also member of the Leonore Chamber Orchestra and the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. He previously served with the CCM Philharmonia. He also attended Eastern Music Festival in 2018.
An avid educator, Cameron is an active teacher around the greater Seattle metro area. He works as a teaching assistant for the University of Washington, where he teaches courses on clarinet as well as leading private lessons and chamber coachings. He is on the faculty at Dolce Arts Studio in Bellevue and the Seattle Conservatory of Music and is a substitute coach for the Bellevue Youth Symphony. He also offers lessons privately within the city of Seattle on both clarinet and bass clarinet. His ultimate goal is to develop his own bass clarinet degree program at the university level, a recognition of the instrument's growing popularity in the United States.
Cameron is currently seeking his DMA at the University of Washington. He holds a BM from Temple University and a MM from Cincinnati College-Conservatory. His primary teachers include Ben Lulich, Ixi Chen, Paul Demers, and Eric Anderson. While at Temple, Cameron also studied bass clarinet with Mr. Demers and has received subsequent instruction on that instrument from Ron Aufmann, J. Lawrie Bloom, Joshua Rubin, and Eric Jacobs.