Colleen Hartung is an accomplished clarinetist with a diverse career spanning performance and education. With many years of teaching experience, she has instructed students of all ages and levels at institutions including Bucknell University, Susquehanna
University, and The Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College. Currently, Colleen teaches at Brookline Music School and the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she coaches chamber music.
As an active freelance musician, Colleen has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Plymouth Philharmonic, Allentown Symphony, Williamsport Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Opera Roanoke, Roanoke Symphony, and the Ashlawn Opera Festival Orchestra.
She has also been a participant at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts. Colleen’s dedication to contemporary and lesser-known works is evident in her performances. She premiered Ryan Woodward’s Suite for Clarinet and Violin at the International Clarinet
Association’s Mid-America Clarinet Festival and reintroduced Ruth Crawford Seeger’s
Diaphonic No. 3 for Two Clarinets at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in Ostende, Belgium.
Her chamber music experience is equally impressive. Colleen was a founding member of the Sunderman Woodwind Quintet while on faculty at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. She has performed with the Dover Quartet and toured internationally with the Weis Trio.
Colleen’s approach to performance and teaching has been shaped by influential teachers
including Brian Moorhead, Robert Listokin, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, and Mark Nuccio.