Ilana Inselbuch

About Ilana

Ilana Inselbuch is a multi-faceted artist who recently graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University. She received a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance while studying with critically acclaimed soloist and chamber musician Alexander Fiterstein. She was awarded the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in Chamber Music and the Azalia H. Thomas Prize for highest G.P.A. in Music Theory of the 2022 Peabody graduating class. Inselbuch is an active performer, and was invited to give a recital in 2021 at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, D.C. as a soloist and chamber musician, performing contemporary Brazilian music. She attended the renowned Eastern Music Festival in the summer of 2021, where she played Principal Clarinet under Maestro Gerard Schwarz, Maestro José- Luis Novo, and Maestro Grant Cooper. Inselbuch participated in the International Clarinet Workshop in the summer of 2020, where she was awarded runner-up in the Sutermeister Capriccio Solo Competition.

Inselbuch enjoys sharing her artistry and soul through teaching to create community. She taught private and group lessons to the students at the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles in 2023 and the Zemer School of Music in Baltimore, Maryland in 2022. She was called in as a guest teaching artist at the Valencia High School Winter Camp in 2023. Inselbuch supported music educational institutions as an advisor and administrator at the Colburn School of Music and the Santa Monica Conservatory of Music in 2023. She also supported her local Jewish community at the time by teaching at the IKAR Synagogue and Silverlake Independent Jewish Community in 2023. She currently teaches at Congregation Beth Yeshurun and will be pursuing her master's degree at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Clarinet Performance in the fall of 2024.