Professional Musician

• Active performer specializing in flutes, clarinets and saxophones 

• Main Instrument - Clarinet

• Performance Styles: Orchestral, Broadway, Opera, Jazz (Big Band & Dixieland), Blaskapelle & Concert Band

• Conductor: Concert Band & Broadway Musical

Education

• B.M. in Music Education from St. Norbert College 

• M.M. from Northwestern University (Music Education with an emphasis in Clarinet Pedagogy)

Performing Experience

Along with teaching, Mr. Tengowski is an active freelance performer. He has performed with the Weidner Philharmonic, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Civic Orchestra, Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Pamiro Opera Company, Sebastian Chamber Ensemble, American Promenade Orchestra, Dorf Kapelle, Paine Street Ramblers, St. Norbert College Community Band and various dance bands throughout the Midwest.

Mr. Tengowski has performed with numerous entertainers and touring National Broadway shows throughout Wisconsin. Some of the entertainers that he has had the privilege to work with include Aretha Franklin, Bob Newhart, Sallie Struthers, Robert Goulet, Sandy Duncan, Cathy Rigby, Tony Curtis, Sutton Foster, Anne Murray, Bernadette Peters, Don Rickles, Bobby Vinton, Johnnie Mathis, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and Marie Osmond.

He is a member of NAfME, WMEA, AFM, and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.