Michelle Doyle, clarinet, moved back to her native Boston in 2001 to play with Vento Chiaro. Since returning, she has become a busy freelance soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. She has been a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, the Iris Chamber Orchestra and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. Michelle is a highly sought after teacher in the Boston area and has been on the faculty of the University of Mississippi and Arkansas State University. As an active chamber musician and soloist, she has premiered works by Robert Patterson, Keith Carpenter, Michael Edgerton and John Hiltgen. Michelle freelances extensively and has performed and toured as a soloist and with ensembles throughout the United States and abroad including the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna.

When not playing the clarinet, Michelle can be found teaching and doing yoga – she is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher. She is also an avid downhill skier and chaperones ski trips and hits the slopes as often as her busy performance schedule allows.

Ms. Doyle graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She received an Artist Diploma from the St. Louis Conservatory and School for the Arts where she was the clarinetist of the Wells Ensemble Woodwind Quintet. Ms. Doyle completed a Masters Degree in Clarinet Performance at Northwestern University where she studied with J. Lawrie Bloom. Her teachers have included George Silfies, Fred Ormand, John Mohler, Peter Schmidl, Larry Combs, Paulette Bowes and William Wrzesien.