Hailed for her “enchanting” performances (New York Classical Review), her “lambent tone and persuasive phrasing” (Oberon’s Grove), Swiss-French clarinetist Yasmina Spiegelberg is the laureate of several international and national competitions including the Rotary International Competition Madrid Velazquez, the Frances Walton Seattle Competition, and the USC Concerto Competition. Additionally, she was awarded the Special Prize at the 2nd Vienna International Music Competition, and the Golden Medal at the 4th Manhattan International Music Competition. Her former clarinet trio, The Tandru Trio, was the winner at the Beverly Hills National Auditions in 2019. With her woodwind quintet, ConnectFive, she was an Ensemble Forward Grantee through Chamber Music America.
Based in NYC, she is an alum of Ensemble Connect, the resident ensemble of Carnegie Hall, which features extraordinary young musicians from around the globe who are committed to community engagement, teaching, entrepreneurship, and leadership. She has appeared in many renowned concert halls including the Oslo Concert Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall.
Yasmina was a guest soloist with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Nomad Symphony Orchestra (France), String Ensemble Rapsodia (Switzerland), USC Thornton Edge, and USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra. She has been broadcasted live as a soloist on KUSC (California) and KING-FM (Washington) and she recorded an album in Switzerland featuring concertos and other works for clarinet and orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Stefan Asbury, Richard Egarr, Franck Ollu, Paul Watkins, and Xiao Zhang.
She has appeared at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor, Chelsea Music Festival, Festival POTE (France), GatherNYC, International Ensemble Modern Academy (Austria), Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Rocket City New Music, TIME:SPANS Festival, Yellowbarn, and with renowned ensembles such as A Far Cry, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Argento New Music Project, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, On Site Opera, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Yasmina is a core member and co-founder of Trio Phōs, a NYC-based clarinet trio. She’s also the Principal Clarinetist of Pegasus: The Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of New York, as well as the Clarinetist of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. She was a designated substitute on the Broadway Show Camelot. Her chamber music collaborations include Natasha Brofsky, Peter Frankl, Clive Greensmith, Thomas Guei, Peter Kolkay, Cynthia Phelps, Hila Plitmann, Mark Steinberg, and Roger Tapping. A passionate advocate of contemporary classical music, she collaborates with composers Kalevi Aho, Reena Esmail, inti figgis-vizueta, Liza Lim, James MacMillan, and Michi Wiancko.