Dana Hotle

Dana Hotle, clarinet, is a multifaceted musician, arts leader, and educator. She performs in both her home state of Missouri and Illinois as principal clarinetist of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and throughout the St. Louis area with Chamber Project St. Louis, an ensemble she co-founded in 2012. As Executive Director of Chamber Project St. Louis, she leads an innovative collaborative of musicians in unique chamber music programs.

Dana is currently the Coordinator of the Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion Department and a member of the clarinet faculty in the Washington University Department of Music. She has performed with the St. Louis Symphony, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Winter Opera St. Louis, Union Avenue Opera, and the Cedar Rapids Symphony (now Orchestra Iowa). She has taught at the Community Music School of Webster University since 2001.

She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with David Krakauer.