Michael Norsworthy has given over 150 world premieres with leading contemporary music groups. Currently, Norsworthy is Professor of Clarinet & Bass Clarinet, Woodwind Department Chair and Director of Contemporary Music Performance at the Boston Conservatory and has presented masterclasses at various universities. He has served as artist in residence at Harvard University with the Harvard Group for New Music and was on the artist faculty at Columbia University. He is also the Massachusetts State Chairman for the International Clarinet Association.

Mr. Norsworthy holds advanced degrees from New England Conservatory and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and has attended Michigan State University. His teachers include Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Eric Mandat, Kalmen Opperman and Richard Stoltzman. He is the recipient of many awards and distinctions, among them: The John Cage Award, Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award and Southern Illinois University’s Chancellor’s Research and Creativity Award, grants from the Yvar Mikahashoff Trust for New Music, St. Louis Artist Presentation Society and St. Botolph Club Foundation and a fellowship from the Aspen Music Festival. Presented in partnership with FIU NODUS New Music Festival.