Timothy Fitzgerald Boyd, M.M.

Clarinetist Tim Fitzgerald is Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Georgia. He regularly performs in orchestras in cities including Huntsville, Alabama and Rome, Georgia. He has performed at International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Austin, Texas.

Tim has been invited as a guest artist and lecturer at universities such as Duke, University of Delaware, Kennesaw State University, and Tennessee Tech in GremlinsDuo with Jon Goodman. The two have recorded an album, commissioned several pieces for soprano and bass clarinets, and tenor saxophone, and co-wrote two method books.

Back in 2010, Mr. Fitzgerald was the first ever guest artist and clinician invited to perform for and instruct the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony. Education of young clarinetists remains one of his greatest joys. He received his Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music, where he studied with Nathan Williams and Richard MacDowell.

He studied with prolific clarinetist-composer, Eric Mandat at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he earned his Masters of Music in Performance.

A native of Marietta, Georgia, Tim enjoys discussing his husband’s oil paintings, participating in an amateur gymnastics class, aiming a laser pointer for his cat, Tom Jones, and playing Pokemon Go.

Gaudy Break’em (quarter tone fingering exercises based off of Vade Mecum), The Buddy System (duet warmups), GremlinsDuo reviewed in ArtsATL and mentioned in article in The Clarinet.