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

Mr. Tengowski is also an active freelance performer. He has performed with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Civic Orchestra, Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Pamiro Opera Company, Sebastian Chamber Ensemble, American Promenade Orchestra, Weidner Philharmonic, and the St. Norbert College Community Band. He also performs with several local groups, including the Paine Street Ramblers, the Dorf Kapelle, and both the Doghouse and Cornerstone Big Bands.

In addition, Mr. Tengowski has performed with numerous entertainers and touring National Broadway productions throughout Wisconsin. Artists with whom he has worked 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, and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and is an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.