Bryan Conger currently serves as Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to coming to Las Vegas, he was the Instructor of Clarinet at the Interlochen Arts Academy and organizer of the Interlochen Clarinet Intensive. His former students have appeared on NPR’s From the Top, performed with the NYO and NYO2 orchestras, and gone on to attend elite university and conservatory programs. In addition to the clarinet, Conger taught music theory as well as elective courses in Modernism and historical improvisation.

Before Interlochen, Conger was a C.V. Starr doctoral fellow at The Juilliard School, where he held assistantships in the Music Theory, Musicology, and Liberal Arts departments. His doctoral dissertation, The Musical Joyce: Art Music in James Joyce’s Life and Ulysses, was advised by Philip Lasser and awarded the Richard F. French Prize for outstanding doctoral work. Upon graduation, he also received a Marks Career Advancement Grant for “artistic merit, leadership, breadth of engagement, and innovation.”

As a soloist, Conger has appeared with the Banff Summer Arts Festival Orchestra and the New Juilliard Ensemble, with whom he performed the American premiere of Helen Grimes’s concerto for clarinet as well as Donald Crocket’s Dance Concerto for clarinet and bass clarinet. His solo playing has been described by the New York Times as “possessing commanding technique, myriad colorings, and flair.” A proponent of contemporary music, Conger has performed in new-music series throughout New York City, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden and the Guggenheim’s Works in Process. And as a founding member of the Texas New Music Ensemble, he has premiered numerous works by Texas-based composers. At the same time, Conger is a leading historical clarinetist and has performed as principal clarinetist with the Portland and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestras as well as with Juilliard415 and Yale University’s Schola Cantorum.

When not playing the clarinet, Conger enjoys outdoor sports, including mountain biking, skiing, and hiking, and polishing his jump shot.