DIANE HEFFNER is a Boston based freelance clarinetist and teacher on both modern and historical instruments. She plays period clarinets and chalumeau with Handel & Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Boston Baroque, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. San Francisco, and Pacific Musicworks, Seattle, “Rumbarocco” Latin jazz-Baroque fusion ensemble, and Eudamonia, a Purposeful Period Band. As a modern clarinetist Ms. Heffner performs regularly in ensemble and as soloist with Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Alea III, Solar Winds, The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and has played with the Vermont Symphony and Emmanuel Music, and many others. Playing saxes and clarinet, she enjoys jazz freelancing and is a member of Boston’s only all women big band “The Mood Swings Orchestra.” Ms. Heffner is on the applied faculty at Tufts University and the All-Newton Music School as clarinet, saxophone and chamber music instructor. She received BM and MM with honors at New England Conservatory of Music, studying clarinet with Joseph Allard, and chamber music with Rudolph Kolisch and Leonard Shure.