teaches clarinet and saxophone at Maynooth University in Ireland. She is graduating with a PhD from the Technological University Dublin in 2027. Her thesis is titled A study of learning and teaching cultures in four conservatoire clarinet programs from the advanced learner’s perspective.

Breeden earned M.M. degrees in performance from Montclair State University where she also taught music history and the University of Kentucky where she was the clarinet teaching assistant. Breeden completed a B.M. at Arizona State University in music performance under the direction of Dr. Robert Spring and Dr. Joshua Gardner, graduating from Barrett the Honors College with a minor in philosophy. From 2021 to 2023 she apprenticed in clarinet repair with Atelier Mark Jacobi in Philadelphia.

Breeden’s masters thesis, Perspectives on Cultivating a Positive Collegiate Clarinet Studio Environment: A Survey of Students and Professors, was selected as a finalist for the International Clarinet Association’s 2021 Research Competition. She wrote her distinguished undergraduate honors thesis at Arizona State University on Making Clarinet Reeds by Hand, and has written multiple articles for the Clarinet Online Journal. Her current research interests include the history and performance traditions of double clarinet playing and learning Irish traditional music.

An artist who is passionate about introducing new music to the clarinet repertory, Breeden frequently premieres new works at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest and the European Clarinet Association’s annual conferences.