Timothy Zavadil

Timothy Zavadil joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 2007 as clarinetist and bass clarinetist. Since then, he has played those instruments as well as E-flat clarinet, contrabass clarinet, basset horn, and saxophones in concert performances. Previously a member of the Louisville Orchestra, Toledo Symphony and Civic Orchestra of Chicago, he has also performed with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, National, Toronto and St. Louis symphony orchestras, as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Zavadil has been active with a variety of summer festivals, performing at the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in Door County, Wisconsin, Spoleto (Italy) Festival Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, and the American-Russian Youth Orchestra. In 1994, he was a participant in the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall.

An active chamber musician, he has performed in several Minnesota Orchestra chamber concerts, as well as with a number of other ensembles based in the Twin Cities, Louisville and Toledo.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Zavadil holds master and bachelor of music degrees from, respectively, Northwestern University and DePaul University, and counts J. Lawrie Bloom, Russell Dagon, John Bruce Yeh and Larry Combs among his primary teachers.

In Fall 2017, Zavadil joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as Instructor of Clarinet. Timothy Zavadil is a Buffet-Crampon performing artist, and plays Buffet clarinets exclusively.